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Comscore Trend Data on WMF Sites, As of Mar 09 Geography : Worldwide Location : All Locations Target : Total Audience Media : Wikimedia Foundation Sites Measures : Total Unique Visitors (000) 9/07 10/07 11/07 12/07 1/08 2/08 3/08 4/08 5/08 6/08 7/08 8/08 9/08 10/08 11/08 12/08 1/09 2/09 3/09 Total Internet : Total Audience 797,836 804,546 810,779 815,797 824,435 822,990 840,590 849,580 853,119 860,514 949,583 960,198 971,945 984,396 996,304 1,007,730 1,020,582 1,078,911 1,092,598 [P] Wikimedia Foundation Sites 228,830 244,474 241,533 226,119 242,554 240,754 256,061 261,414 263,120 251,502 244,326 248,539 272,109 277,208 280,969 272,998 289,811 300,751 327,148 [M] WIKIPEDIA.ORG 227,754 243,312 240,169 224,762 241,165 239,468 254,645 259,885 261,526 250,003 242,302 246,587 269,697 275,117 279,011 270,297 287,562 298,530 324,702 [C] English Wikipedia 132,961 140,710 143,373 143,470 141,929 153,661 156,015 166,188 [C] Spanish Wikipedia 22,558 25,388 26,412 25,411 21,912 22,513 26,151 30,544 [C] Japanese Wikipedia 25,946 25,698 25,961 25,591 25,103 27,997 26,299 27,981 [C] French Wikipedia 13,095 16,428 18,494 19,195 18,057 19,404 21,542 23,685 [C] German Wikipedia 18,506 20,435 20,474 21,238 20,940 22,237 21,802 23,191 [C] Portugese Wikipedia 9,948 10,788 9,606 10,014 7,980 7,853 9,343 12,218 [C] Italian Wikipedia 6,732 8,638 8,862 9,000 9,231 9,669 9,749 10,549 [C] Russian Wikipedia 5,119 6,535 7,101 7,699 8,761 9,222 8,275 9,459 [C] Arabic Wikipedia 1,539 1,938 2,429 2,689 2,111 2,424 6,839 8,363 [C] Vietnamese Wikipedia 1,625 2,434 2,451 2,857 3,138 3,359 4,454 4,942 [C] Chinese Wikipedias 3,310 3,924 3,758 3,743 3,922 3,831 3,831 4,717 [C] Korean Wikipedia 926 802 1,079 1,656 1,161 1,044 1,063 2,462 [C] Indian Wikipedias 304 332 324 308 441 319 352 327 [C] Javanese Wikipedia 114 73 104 [M] WIKTIONARY.ORG 3,991 4,357 4,828 4,516 5,445 4,847 5,107 5,041 5,209 5,090 4,919 4,696 6,783 6,863 6,542 6,309 7,135 7,726 8,607 [M] Wikimedia Commons 3,803 4,536 4,624 4,789 4,311 4,764 4,863 5,543 [M] WIKIBOOKS.ORG 2,796 3,097 2,899 2,567 2,596 2,650 2,647 2,931 3,391 2,656 2,505 2,408 3,313 3,483 3,224 2,676 3,168 3,304 3,798 [M] Wikipedia International Portals 3,292 3,919 3,613 4,342 3,693 3,563 3,369 3,758 [C] WIKIPEDIA.DE 3,561 3,483 3,654 3,647 3,960 3,486 3,296 3,396 3,415 2,920 2,764 2,664 3,057 2,759 3,399 2,947 2,713 2,625 2,965 [C] WIKIPEDIA.IT 314 369 320 370 434 395 395 431 381 339 297 258 282 286 316 340 371 310 379 [C] WIKIPEDIA.FR 162 310 267 373 229 282 284 234 [C] WIKIPEDIA.AT 61 84 76 98 96 87 99 99 106 106 52 89 111 76 88 105 68 64 71 [C] WIKIPEDIA.BE 56 52 62 71 68 91 69 39 41 28 38 83 78 42 80 58 66 [C] WIKIPEDIA.DK 83 78 93 87 92 96 86 100 91 76 37 46 83 73 62 63 55 45 62 [C] WIKIPEDIA.CH 71 84 101 57 [M] WIKISOURCE.ORG 1,544 1,933 1,779 1,648 1,911 1,709 1,987 2,062 1,892 1,885 1,414 1,349 2,139 2,297 2,296 2,207 1,921 2,232 2,880 [M] WIKIQUOTE.ORG 1,923 2,170 2,198 2,155 2,317 2,274 2,343 2,458 2,317 2,160 2,202 1,861 2,333 2,504 2,468 2,393 2,796 2,504 2,618 [M] Wikimedia Community Sites 1,517 1,314 1,712 4,049 5,438 3,563 1,377 1,509 [C] WIKIMEDIA.ORG (excludes Commons) 620 315 480 411 307 334 409 459 [M] WIKIMEDIA.ORG (includes Commons) 3,841 10,228 5,199 4,502 4,430 4,129 4,746 4,977 4,955 4,425 4,240 [C] WMNL.NL 396 403 536 439 423 499 338 428 [C] WIKIMEDIAFOUNDATION.ORG 667 2,953 4,871 2,949 1,053 386 588 382 530 509 432 387 414 488 2,971 4,546 2,471 310 340 [C] MEDIAWIKI.ORG 174 222 237 178 154 227 299 254 [C] WIKIMEDIA.CH 73 114 76 86 93 [C] WIKIMEDIA.DE 153 23 42 50 8 [M] WIKINEWS.ORG 558 684 1,200 749 725 707 600 493 447 558 568 586 589 480 472 452 464 450 602 [M] WIKIVERSITY.ORG 204 300 404 392 269 392 400 488 Media Metrix 2.0 Legend [P] Property [M] Media Title [C] Channel [S] Subchannel [G] Group [SG] Subgroup [E] Custom Entity [N] Ad Network [A#] Alternate Rollup [X1] Extended Network (hybrid) Used to identify properties that are measured, either in whole or in part, using both panel and census based methodologies. * Indicates that the entity has assigned traffic to certain pages in the domain to other entities ** Indicates that the entity is an advertising network. ... Indicates data used fell below minimum reporting standards and/or data not available. Indicates data is not available in the data set for reporting for the specified time period. # Caution - small base may result in unstable projection. ## Directional purposes only - base too unstable for reliable projection. Details on minimum reporting standards are located at: http://mymetrix.comscore.com/mmx/definitions_minreportingstandards.asp.
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