Hi all, Erik Zachte has compiled some new statistics for Wikimedia Commons. Previously, WikiStats primarily captured the standard metrics (editing activity etc.). Since Commons is first and foremost about media, those metrics weren't as useful to see trends in activity. You can see the new numbers starting here: http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikispecial/EN/TablesWikipediaCOMMONS.htm#upload… .. and they should be reliably and automatically generated going forward. There are also some new summary graphs: http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikispecial/EN/SummaryCOMMONS.htm Note that we can break out in both tables the impact of Upload Wizard. The numbers show that the growth rate of Commons increased very significantly after UW was enabled in May 2011. The number of contributors grew by about 25% from March 2011 to March 2012, compared with ~12% in the prior year. The numbers also clearly show the impact of "Wiki Loves Monuments" in terms of the number of uploaders -- in September 2011, 22642 people uploaded at least one file to Commons, a huge jump from the previous month (16869). The number of uploaders quickly returned to previous levels, but it's fantastic to see that a single event can bring in so many new people. Erik's working on some additional stats, but I wanted to share this date with you. He's also going to write a blog post about this new data. Please report any oddities or inconsistencies directly to him. I also want to give a shout-out to Bryan Tong Minh who's been maintaining the incredibly useful commons-stats here: https://toolserver.org/~bryan/stats/ - which previously were my primary source of relevant data (and there are still some stats there that don't exist anywhere else). Cheers, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l