It started under the subject "What % of WMF is en:wp?".
2011/1/13 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
- I'd thought en:wp was still about 30% of
everything - ~1/3 the
edits, ~1/3 the articles, ~1/3 the page hits, etc.
I'm sorry about the shameless plug, but i just had to tell that the
number of edits in all the Wikipedias will change quite significantly
when bug 15607 will be closed (
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15607 ). Currently the
bulk of edits in the minor language Wikipedias is done by interwiki
bots, and i've got a hunch that en.wp is the de-facto hub for adding
interlanguage links. This is the workflow, more or less:
1. A human editor creates the article [[Ira Cohen]] in, say, Slovenian
(sl), after it already exists in 20 other Wikipedias.
2. A human editor adds [[sl:Ira Cohen]] to the article [[Ira Cohen]] in en.wp.
3. A human editor waits for the interwiki bots to pick it up and
propagate to 20 other Wikipedias in which this article already exists.
That makes it:
* 1 human edit in sl.wp.
* 1 human edit in en.wp.
* 20 bot edits in other Wikipedias.
After the Interlanguage extensions will be enabled, it will be:
* 1 human edit in sl.wp.
* 1 human edit in en.wp.
* 0 bot edits (some behind-the-scenes magic pushes the changes to 20
wikis, but it's not seen in Recent Changes.)
This is a major reason to have the Interlanguage extension finally
enabled. Besides a MAJOR cleaning-up in Recent Changes in all
Wikipedias, it will give a somewhat clearer picture of the activity in
the ones.
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