Thanks -- that&#39;s exactly what I was looking for, Dario! :) -Jodi<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Dario Taraborelli <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi Jodi<div><br><div><div>see attached, the median of daily enwiki edits (all namespaces, including bots and anonymous edits) in 2013 to date is 127K. (data from the RecentChanges feed)</div>
<div><br></div><div></div></div></div></div><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><div></div><div><br></div><div>HTH</div><div>Dario</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On May 7, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Jodi Schneider &lt;<a href="mailto:jschneider@pobox.com" target="_blank">jschneider@pobox.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite"><div>What&#39;s the average number of edits per day on English Wikipedia?</div><div><br></div><div>This is to frame my dissertation research -- I haven&#39;t found &quot;edits per day&quot; in the stats I&#39;ve looked at [1][2]. </div>

<div><br></div><div>-Jodi</div><div><br></div><div><div>[1] <a href="http://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wikimediacounter/" target="_blank">http://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wikimediacounter/</a></div><div>[2] <a href="http://s23.org/wikistats/wikipedias_html.php" target="_blank">http://s23.org/wikistats/wikipedias_html.php</a></div>

</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>PS: There are other measures of work and importance I&#39;ve collected.</div><div><br></div><div>From the (highly recommended!) &quot;edit sessions&quot; paper, I get ~14,000 hours per day [3].</div>

<div>Alexa &amp; Pew provide good popularity measures [4,5], and there is of course article count (4.2 million!).</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>[3] R. Stuart Geiger and Aaron Halfaker. 2013. Using edit sessions to measure participation in Wikipedia. DOI=10.1145/2441776.2441873 </div>

<div><a href="http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/Using_Edit_Sessions_to_Measure_Participation_in_Wikipedia/geiger13using-preprint.pdf" target="_blank">http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/Using_Edit_Sessions_to_Measure_Participation_in_Wikipedia/geiger13using-preprint.pdf</a></div>

<div><br></div><div>Using the ballpark 425,000 hours/month (for 2012, English Wikipedia). Wow!</div><div><br></div><div>[4] Alexa: <a href="http://wikipedia.org/" target="_blank">wikipedia.org</a> is the world&#39;s 6th most popular website, 58.11% of traffic to English Wikipedia.</div>

<div><span style><a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org" target="_blank">http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org</a></span></div><div><span style><br>
</span></div><div><span style>[5] Pew: 53% of American Internet users look for info in Wikipedia (as of May 2010). </span>&quot;The percentage of all American adults who use Wikipedia to look for information has increased from 25% in February 2007 to 42% in May 2010. This translates to 53% of adult internet users. &quot; <br>

<a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Wikipedia.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Wikipedia.aspx</a></div><div><span style><br></span></div>
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