Dear members of Wikimedia communities,

At the end of April I presented my Wikipedias benchmarking project, similar to https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/languages/2015-June/000154.html
at Wikimedia-RU conference in Ufa, Bashkortostan. Russian thesis text available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Frhdkazan#1

I regularly manually update stats on the number of visits per month for existing Wikis and number of pages/active participants in Incubator Wikis, then copy results into Excel spreadsheet to calculate various ratios etc. for cross-wiki and chronological comparison.

Being a speaker of Tatar living in Russia, so I used stats for Wikipedias gathered at
* Wikipedias in the languages of Russia - https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия:Русия_халыклары_телләрендәге_Википедияләр
* Wikipedias in Turkic languages - https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия:Төрки_халыклар_телләрендәге_Википедияләр
November results and analysis where published yesterday in Russian via Wikimedia-Ru mailing list, also available at https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия бәхәсе:Җәмгыять_үзәге#Русия_халыклары_телләрендәге_Википедияләр_җәмгыятьләре_активлыгы_һәм_аларның_укучылары
A link for *.xls file for Turkic languages group is available at https://yadi.sk/i/mHo3eVtMkXWgf

One clearly notable trend observed in both Russia and Turkic Wikipedias groups is seasonality in the number of visit, except for the Wikis that have some sort of organization taking care for them (growth for Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, relatively stable for Azeri, Kazakh and Finnish vs. x2-3 times decrease for all others in both groups).

This seems to imply that promotion of establishing Wikimedia User Groups for all Wikipedias in small languages by both WMF and its Regional Chapters, as well as other activities (such as training and organizational development) to support their strengthening could be very helpful. Having said that, congratulations to all new Wikimedia User Groups with their approval!
regards,

Farhad
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