Hi Jodi 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) HTH Dario On May 7, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Jodi Schneider <jschneider(a)pobox.com> wrote: What's the average number of edits per day on English Wikipedia? This is to frame my dissertation research -- I haven't found "edits per day" in the stats I've looked at [1][2]. -Jodi [1] http://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wikimediacounter/ [2] http://s23.org/wikistats/wikipedias_html.php PS: There are other measures of work and importance I've collected. From the (highly recommended!) "edit sessions" paper, I get ~14,000 hours per day [3]. Alexa & Pew provide good popularity measures [4,5], and there is of course article count (4.2 million!). [3] R. Stuart Geiger and Aaron Halfaker. 2013. Using edit sessions to measure participation in Wikipedia. DOI=10.1145/2441776.2441873 http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/Using_Edit_Sessions_to_Mea… Using the ballpark 425,000 hours/month (for 2012, English Wikipedia). Wow! [4] Alexa: wikipedia.org is the world's 6th most popular website, 58.11% of traffic to English Wikipedia. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org [5] Pew: 53% of American Internet users look for info in Wikipedia (as of May 2010). "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. " http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Wikipedia.aspx _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l