By Laura Hale @purplepopple on Twitter [email protected] July 21, 2013 Content Accomplishments • Articles created about 10 competitors on English Wikipedia. • 5 articles about competitors improved on English Wikipedia. • 12 articles about competitors created on Simple English Wikipedia. • 1 article created on Euskara Wikipedia . • 1 article created on Galego about competitors. • 1 article improved on Catalan Wikipedia. • 4 articles improved on Spanish Wikipedia. • Three English Wikipedia Did You Knows. • Four English Wikinews articles published. • Pictures and audio for four athletes for Commons. English Wikinews traffic Four interviews were published on English Wikinews. The decision was made not to translate them into Spanish because of issues with on the spot translating leading to translation discrepancies. The interviews were published one a day, going from the least known competitor to the most known. While traffic was down on Saturday, it is possible it will increase on Sunday as more athletes compete. English Wikinews daily page view totals 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0 15-Jul-13 16-Jul-13 17-Jul-13 18-Jul-13 19-Jul-13 20-Jul-13 Wikinews interviews Spanish Paralympic track and field athlete Elena Congost Mohedano Wikinews interviews Spanish Paralympic track and field athlete Gustavo Nieves Campello Wikinews interviews Spanish Paralympic track and field athlete Alberto Suárez Laso Wikinews interviews Spanish Paralympic track and field athlete David Casinos Total English Wikinews social media Wikinews primarily shares its news stories on two social media platforms: Twitter and Facebook. On Twitter, the David Casinos interview had the most tweets linking to it with four: trf_news, vikinovajhoj, youranonfactz and wikinews. The Elena Congost Mohedano interview had three links with trf_news, youranonfactz and wikinews linking to it. The remaining two were linked two twice, each time by youranonfactz andwikinews. On Facebook, all interviews were shared on English Wikinews’s fanpage and on Laura Hale’s personal Facebook page. One interview was also shared by John Vandenberg. The “reach”, that is the number of people viewing the Wikinews Facebook fanpage update, for the David Casinos interview reach was 369. Alberto Suárez Laso interview reach was 271. Gustavo Nieves Campello interview reach was 260. Elena Congost Mohedano interview reach was 382. English Wikipedia DYKs Did You Knows are articles that appear on the front page of Wikipedia containing an interesting fact from the article. These articles require they be written or expanded in a certain time frame and expanded to a certain length. As part of the research efforts for Wikinews articles, several articles on were eligible and nominated by a contributor for this status. These articles were Alberto Suárez Laso , Manuel Garnica Roldan and Maximiliano Óscar Rodríguez Magi. All time, since efforts were started in January 2013 to improve Spanish Paralympic related content, 19 articles have appeared on the front page of English Wikipedia as DYKs. The table below contains a list of articles that have appeared and the number of page views the articles got on the day. •Teresa Perales - 9,964 •Úrsula Pueyo - 622 •Jon Santacana views views Maiztegui - 351 views •Miguel Galindo •Gabriel Gorce - 462 •Maximiliano Óscar Garces - 3,816 views views Rodríguez Magi - 316 •Teresa Silva - 981 •Nathalie Carpanedo - views views 435 views •Andrés Boira - 313 •Irene Villa - 927 views •Aleix Suñé - 402 views views •Carme García - 908 •Ramón Homs - 397 •Óscar Espallargas - views views 205 views •Alberto Suárez Laso - •Manuel Garnica •Spanish Paralympic 849 views Roldan - 367 views Committee - 155 views •Anna Cohí - 774 views •Arnau Ferrer - 143 views •Félix Aznar - 116 views English Wikipedia Views The following graph contains the daily page views to articles about members of the Spanish team who have articles about them on English Wikipedia. The large spikes above 100 are attributable to DYK days or days when a lot of editing took place. 1000 100 10 1 4-Jul-13 1-Jul-13 2-Jul-13 3-Jul-13 5-Jul-13 6-Jul-13 7-Jul-13 8-Jul-13 9-Jul-13 19-Jul-13 10-Jul-13 11-Jul-13 12-Jul-13 13-Jul-13 14-Jul-13 15-Jul-13 16-Jul-13 17-Jul-13 18-Jul-13 20-Jul-13 Abderrahman Ait Khamouch David Casinos José António Exposito Eva Ngui José Pámpano Manuel Garnica Roldan Xavier Porras Alberto Suárez Laso Gustavo Nieves Campello José Martínez Morote Dionibel Rodríguez Rodríguez Maximiliano Óscar Rodríguez Magi Elena Congost Mohedano Roger Puigbò i Verdaguer English Wikipedia Twitter Unlike English Wikinews, English Wikipedia articles are not automatically linked to on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook. Of the 15 articles on English Wikipedia about the 27 competitors , only four were linked to on Twitter: Alberto Suárez Laso, Gustavo Nieves Campello, Manuel Garnica Roldan, and David Casinos. No article had more than two accounts linking to it, with all the links coming from didyouknowwp or purplepopple. The only exception is the article about Gustavo which was linked to by the athlete. Spanish Wikipedia Views The following graph contains the daily page views to articles about members of the Spanish team who have articles about them on Spanish Wikipedia. These articles ,with the exception of Alberto Suárez Laso, all existed prior to improvement efforts. These efforts largely involved fixing sources, including a picture or adding small bits of information. 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 David Casinos Eva Ngui Alberto Suárez Laso Roger Puigbò i Verdaguer Spanish Wikipedia Twitter Like English Wikipedia, new articles are not linked to on Twitter. There was one article linked to on Twitter, Alberto Suárez and that was linked to by purplepopple. Simple English Wikipedia Views The following graph contains the daily page views to articles about members of the Spanish team who have articles about them on Simple English Wikipedia. 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 Abderrahman Ait Khamouch David Casinos José António Exposito Eva Ngui José Pámpano Manuel Garnica Roldan Xavier Porras Alberto Suárez Laso Gustavo Nieves Campello José Martínez Morote Elena Congost Mohedano Simple English Wikipedia Twitter Like English Wikipedia, new articles are not linked to on Twitter. On Twitter,purplepopple linked to the David Casinos article , the Alberto Suárez articles and the Gustavo Nieves Campello article on Simple English Wikipedia.. The Gustavo Nieves Campello article was linked to by Gustavo. Otherwise, no articles were linked to on Twitter. Other Wikipedia Views Four articles appear in other languages: Abderrahman Ait Khamouch in Euskera, David Casinos in Italian, Gustavo Nieves Campello in Galego and Roger Puigbò i Verdaguer in Catalan. The table below shows daily views for these articles. 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 Abderrahman Ait Khamouch (eu) David Casinos (it) Gustavo Nieves Campello (gl) Roger Puigbò i Verdaguer (ca) Other Wikipedia Twitter Like English Wikipedia, new articles are not linked to on Twitter. None of these articles were linked on Twitter by any user. Wikipedia Views The graph below includes the total daily page views based on the language Wikipedia for all articles written in that language. The correlations do not necessarily correlate to athlete activity but article writing efforts, Did You Know appearances or English Wikinews articles about the person being published. 1000 100 10 1 English Wikipedia Euskera Wikipedia Italian Wikipedia Galego Wikipedia Catalan Wikipedia Spanish Wikipedia Simple English Wikipedia English Wikinews.