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Wikipedia:Statistics from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia Wikipedia:Statistics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "WP:ST" redirects here. You may also be looking for the list of stub templates or WikiProject Star Trek. "WP:STAT" and "WP:STATS" redirect here. You may also be looking for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Statistics (mathematical science), Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information (guidelines) or Help:Pageview stats. While you read this, Wikipedia and its sister projects grow at a rate of over 10 edits/sec by editors from all over the world.[1] Currently, English Wikipedia includes 4,672,195 articles and it is increased every day with over 800 new articles.[2] This amount of data can be analysed in a huge number of ways. The best way to get an idea of the bigger picture is with statistics. This page shows some figures about Wikipedia, analysis of different patterns and compiles related tools, covering various aspects of Wikipedia, whether as an encyclopedia, a website, or a community. Some provide current snapshots and others track growth and development over time. It includes also frameworks and datasets that can help you in creating your own statistics. Contents 1 Statistics 1.1 Analysis 1.1.1 General 1.1.2 Images 1.1.3 Links 1.1.4 Page views 1.1.5 Quality 1.1.6 Deletion and vandalism statistics 1.2 Visualizations 2 Frameworks 3 Datasets 4 Archived statistics 5 Archived analysis 6 See also 7 References 8 External links Statistics Analysis A number of analysis of wiki metrics like edits, page creation, visits and links. In the form of lists, tables and rankings. General English Wikipedia http://stats.wikimedia.org Articles 4,672,195 Database reports – An index of automatically generated reports about Pages 34,550,012 English Wikipedia (GitHub (https://github.com/mzmcbride/database- Files 843,752 reports)) Edits 747,903,534 Size of Wikipedia – by count of articles Users 23,466,076 Size of Wikipedia in volumes – to see the size of Wikipedia in Admins 1,377 print encyclopedia volumes Active users [3] Size comparisons – comparisons against other encyclopedias and 133,327 information collections See more Modelling Wikipedia's growth – analysis of the count of articles, attempting to fit mathematical growth models Number of words, edits, articles (by month), e.g. for English: http://stats.wikimedia.org /EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm Time between edits – Length of time (measured in days) between each block of 10,000,000 edits made to Wikipedia, starting January 16, 2001 and ending with the most recently completed block (viz., September 12, 2011) Article traffic jumps – a place to document unusual jumps in article traffic. Articles and edits List of Wikipedians by number of edits – 10,000 editors with highest editcounts, updated daily. List of Wikipedians by number of recent edits – Updated based on data as of 16 January 2011. List of Wikipedians by article count – 5,000 editors with highest article counts updated weekly. Images Manually created chart of English-language Wikipedia Article Count: January 2001 – July 2014. All rated articles by quality and importance Importance Quality Top High Mid Low ??? Total FA 1,047 1,632 1,522 880 172 5,253 FL 135 519 611 557 121 1,943 A 189 349 527 283 72 1,420 A relatively stable 10% of editors who make over 5 edits GA 1,727 4,022 7,852 7,642 1,466 22,709 each month make over 100 B 10,770 20,642 31,207 23,281 12,718 98,618 edits. C 8,407 24,178 53,741 66,464 35,990 188,780 Start 15,397 66,445 269,625 622,807 250,262 1,224,536 Stub 3,877 27,280 199,609 1,530,565 831,631 2,592,962 List 2,462 9,289 26,523 71,081 56,113 165,468 Assessed 44,011 154,356 591,217 2,323,560 1,188,545 4,301,689 Unassessed 123 333 1,620 19,751 464,052 485,879 Total 44,134 154,689 592,837 2,343,311 1,652,597 4,787,568 Graph showing the number of days between every 10,000,000 About this table edits. Links User:Emijrp/External Links Ranking – Top 1000 most linked domains from external links as of April 2011 (all namespaces). linkypedia (http://linkypedia.inkdroid.org/) (Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-08-16/In the news#In brief) Page views http://stats.grok.se – FAQ at User:Killiondude/stats Wikitop (http://wikitop.alwaysdata.net) – Top 30 most popular articles by categories, with user comments on traffic jumps. Wikipedia's reach, traffic and ranking compared to other websites (http://alexa.com/siteinfo /wikipedia.org) – graphs and comparison statistics provided by Alexa Internet Wikipedia compared with other sites (http://alexa.com/siteinfo /wikipedia.org+sina.com.cn+orkut.com+live.com+youtube.com) – graph using the above to compare Wikipedia against various top 10 sites. Category:Lists of popular pages by WikiProject – These projects use pageview data to focus article improvement efforts on popular but poor quality articles. Wikipedia:Lists of popular pages by WikiProject Wikipedia:Top 25 Report – Top 25 most popular articles weekly chart. WikiViewStats (https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiviewstats/) – interactive chart of most accessed pages TreeViews (http://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/treeviews/) – Monthly view statistics for category trees Wikitrends (http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikitrends/english-most-visited-this-week.html) – Top 10 today/this week/this month, and trends (also links for other-language Wikipedia) User:West.andrew.g/Popular pages – Current weekly 5,000 most popular articles based on raw data Wikipedia is more popular than... – a list of Alexa traffic comparisons Top 100 pages for all of 2013 (http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikitrends/2013.html) – Also links for other-language Wikipedias. Quality This section requires expansion (https://en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Statistics& action=edit). Deletion and vandalism statistics As of June 2014, more than 1000 pages are deleted from Wikipedia each day (http://tools.wmflabs.org/wmcharts/wmchart0004.php). Statistics about deletion and other administrator actions can be found at the WP:Adminstats page. A list of recently deleted files can be found at Special:Log/delete. Revision deletion statistics can be found here. Visualizations The following tools include artistic, graphs, maps and other visualization projects. Tool Topic Code Description Image A visual and GitHub audio Listen to Wikipedia (https://github.com illustration of Edits (http://listen.hatnote.com/) /hatnote/listen- live editing to-wikipedia) activity on Wikipedia. Page views statistics for several Wikipedia GitHub languages. You Page (https://github.com stats.grok.se (http://stats.grok.se/) can select by views /abelsson month and the /stats.grok.se) last 30, 60 or 90 days. It can be exported in JSON. English Wikipedia articles traffic statistics. Trend lines for several articles Wiki Trends Page can be shown (http://www.wikipediatrends.com) views in one chart. Linear, logarithmic and normalised vertical scales are possible. Usage statistics with hit lists (top 100,000) by category, single page request, 24-hour statistics, Wiki ViewStats Page personal (http://tools.wmflabs.org views favorites, /wikiviewstats/) global project totals (today, per month, 30, 60, 90 days). + Wiki thanks statistics. Hourly Tool Topic Code Description Image updates. Actuality of Wikipedia based on last edits, ranking WikiChecker Edits by users and (http://en.wikichecker.com/) pages. Edit-war detector and more. Numbers and graphs for several core metrics (including Edits GitHub unique visitors Wikimedia Report Card Page (https://github.com and page (http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/) views /wikimedia/limn) views for the entirety of Wikimedia projects), updated monthly. Erik Zachte's statistics for all Wikipedia Statistics projects and (http://stats.wikimedia.org Edits all languages. /EN/Sitemap.htm) Updated monthly. A real-time view of current edit rates on various major language Wikipedias using node.js. GitHub wikipulse The app Edits (https://github.com (http://wikipulse.herokuapp.com/) connects to /edsu/wikipulse) Wikimedia IRC chatrooms where page edits are announced by a bot, and keeps track of the edits. Tool Topic Code Description Image Statistics and graphs about the Wiki Loves Monuments wlm-stats GitHub photograph (http://tools.wmflabs.org GLAM (https://github.com contest. It /wlm-stats/) /emijrp/wlm-stats) offers metadata files to create your own statistics. A collection of charts about Wikimedia projects, including activity on wmcharts GitHub recent (http://tools.wmflabs.org Edits (https://github.com changes, new /wmcharts/) /emijrp/wmcharts) pages, deletions, blocks, protections, file uploads, reverts and more. A near real-time edit counter for all Wikimedia projects together. Every increase means that someone in any part of the GitHub world has wmcounter (https://github.com clicked the (http://tools.wmflabs.org Edits /emijrp "Save" button /wmcounter/) /wmcounter) and sent her changes. Pretty amazing to see, perfect for background in wiki conferences. The 1 billionth edit took place on April 16, Tool Topic Code Description Image 2010. Frameworks mediawiki-utilities (https://github.com/halfak/mediawiki-utilities) – A set of utilities for accessing and processing MediaWiki data, including XML dumps Datasets Main page: Wikipedia:Pageview statistics There are available some datasets that you can download and process: Wikipedia:Database download Page view statistics for Wikimedia projects (http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/) – raw page access data for all Wikipedia projects, in all languages (see Wikimedia page views, some good and bad news (http://infodisiac.com/blog/2010/07/wikimedia-page-views-some-good-and-bad-
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