About statistics: we don't have any statistics since Oct. 2006 : http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaZZ.htm . Maybe Greg Maxwell, as CRO, has more up-to-date data, but stats.wikimedia.org is currently of no help. It's quite difficult to update leaflets if we have no new data, given that stats are almost the only thing that needs to be updated; the rest of the content doesn't need much update: core principles, free content, are still up-to-date and not likely to change.
A few months ago I explained on this list that a full dump for en: Wikipedia had not been produced for over a year. Not much I could do then. See post 'Dump process need serious fix.' http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-September/033073.html
Coincidentally today the final step of the English dump job finished and according to the report all steps were succesfull, which is no guarantee but promising. By the way the whole dump process took 58 days, over 8 weeks, for English Wikipedia alone. Two weeks ago the one but last step in the job yielded a usable dump file. Currently wikistats runs for all other wikis, and has a few days to go. After that I will try to process the English dump if a suitable server (>= 4 Gb physical memory) can be supplied.
Hmmmm. The data is available per language, even if not available generally. So I think the problem is perhaps not the Foundation not providing data,
but the tool itself. In which case, that would be a question for Erik Zachte ?
Ant
Project wide totals can only be presented for those months where counts for all significant languages are known. Without counts for English Wikipedia project wide totals are meaningless.
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By the way, you may find some useful input for leaflets on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Erik_Zachte/Wikimedia_projects_in_figure s_-_Wikipedia Similar but incomplete pages like this exist for all projects. See navigation box at bottom of page. Data are annotated and referenced.
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Let me advertise a report I created autumn 2007 with project wide figures: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesCurrentStatusVerbose.htm Same for other projects
Erik Zachte
Wow, en.wp.all dump finished!!! Downloading a copy now...
Erik, your stats are an extremely high priority. Hopefully the Foundation coughs up a server without delay. If not, please contact me.
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Erik Zachte erikzachte@infodisiac.com wrote:
About statistics: we don't have any statistics since Oct. 2006 : http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaZZ.htm . Maybe Greg Maxwell, as CRO, has more up-to-date data, but stats.wikimedia.org is currently of no help. It's quite difficult to update leaflets if we have no new data, given that stats are almost the only thing that needs to be updated; the rest of the content doesn't need much update: core principles, free content, are still up-to-date and not likely to change.
A few months ago I explained on this list that a full dump for en: Wikipedia had not been produced for over a year. Not much I could do then. See post 'Dump process need serious fix.'
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-September/033073.html
Coincidentally today the final step of the English dump job finished and according to the report all steps were succesfull, which is no guarantee but promising. By the way the whole dump process took 58 days, over 8 weeks, for English Wikipedia alone. Two weeks ago the one but last step in the job yielded a usable dump file. Currently wikistats runs for all other wikis, and has a few days to go. After that I will try to process the English dump if a suitable server (>= 4 Gb physical memory) can be supplied.
Hmmmm. The data is available per language, even if not available generally. So I think the problem is perhaps not the Foundation not providing data,
but the tool itself. In which case, that would be a question for Erik Zachte ?
Ant
Project wide totals can only be presented for those months where counts for all significant languages are known. Without counts for English Wikipedia project wide totals are meaningless.
By the way, you may find some useful input for leaflets on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Erik_Zachte/Wikimedia_projects_in_figure s_-_Wikipediahttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Erik_Zachte/Wikimedia_projects_in_figures_-_Wikipedia Similar but incomplete pages like this exist for all projects. See navigation box at bottom of page. Data are annotated and referenced.
Let me advertise a report I created autumn 2007 with project wide figures: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesCurrentStatusVerbose.htm Same for other projects
Erik Zachte
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On 3/1/08, Erik Zachte erikzachte@infodisiac.com wrote:
Coincidentally today the final step of the English dump job finished and according to the report all steps were succesfull, which is no guarantee but promising.
That's great news. FWIW, there are some basic up-to-date numbers on article counts here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilingual_statistics
We'll hit 10M across all Wikipedia languages soon. :-)
By the way, you may find some useful input for leaflets on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Erik_Zachte/Wikimedia_projects_in_figure s_-_Wikipedia
Uhmm
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias#Grand_Total
Total - 9 796 733 articles - it is good news for PR. Does anybody want to write something about 10M?
przykuta
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