2009/11/9 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
Hoi, According to the statistics, the traffic of Commons grew last month by 35% to 268 M. This makes it in traffic bigger then the German Wikipedia.. The German Wikipedia is our third biggest Wikipedai... Does anybody have a clue what is happening. Is there a potential for a similar sized growth next month ??
The report from Paris earlier today mentioned that global usage details are now becoming available for Commons images. Might this have some kind of impact on the Commons usage statistics - has it altered the way they're calculated in any way?
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikispecial/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm
Alternatively, it might just be a statistical blip. Wikisource jumped by 60% in September and then reverted; Wikispecies had a similar jump and fall in March. de.wp, looking more widely, did the same last December. We'll know for sure next month :-)