wp:es and wp:pt are outliers in the sense that they follow a half-yearly cycle rather than
a yearly cycle
That must be related to the fact that these languages are spoken in significant amounts
above and below the equator, and thus have different seasonality. especially wp:es
wp:pt is mostly read from southern hemisphere Brazil 71%, Angola 4.8%
wp:es is more evenly distributed
https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerLanguag…
see also:
http://infodisiac.com/blog/2012/02/wikipedia-readers/
http://infodisiac.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Share-of-Wikipedia-pa…
note this is *share of pageviews* so the summer dip is concealed on wp:es, as it coincides
with other languages
Erik Zachte
From: Analytics [mailto:analytics-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pine W
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 9:32
To: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in
Wikipedia and analytics.
Subject: [Analytics] Trends in main page statistics
Hi Analytics folks,
Now that the pageview graphs are working again (thanks Toby!) I decided to take a quick
look at our graphs of readership of main pages of a few wikis. Most wikis were relatively
flat, but there were a few exceptions:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=latest-90&pages=Main_Page>
&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=latest-90&pages=Main_Page
https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=es.wikipedia.org
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=es.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=latest-90&pages=Wikipedia:Portada>
&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=latest-90&pages=Wikipedia:Portada
https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=commons.wikimedia.org
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=commons.wikimedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=latest-90&pages=Main_Page>
&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=latest-90&pages=Main_Page
I was guessing that the declining numbers on ESWP could be related to the ending of the
school year, but (1) that same pattern isn't present on other wikis, and (2) the
school years of a number of predominantly Spanish-speaking countries don't end in June
as US school years often do.
The increasing numbers on ENWP are still happening despite the school year having ended
for most schools, so this is a pleasant surprise. Any idea about what could be causing
that?
Similarly, we're seeing some nice growth in the Commons main page stats.
Any ideas about what could be causing these three sets of numbers to have these patterns?
Thanks,
Pine
