I've been asked for a statistic and I'm not sure where to look: the uptake of Wikipedia. That is, how many new users come to the site per unit time (any unit time). Could be readers or editors, could be English Wikipedia or all Wikipedias. Anyone got a pointer to a substantiable number?
- d.
I'm not quite sure if it's what you're looking for, but the only number I recall hearing fairly recently was Brianna's stat of 10641 new user accounts created in one 24 hour period this year for EN, and that this was a fairly standard number. There was also a breakdown of how those new accounts faired over a period of time. My quick summary of the talk: http://blog.nickj.org/2007/08/10/wikimania-2007-talk-specialcontributionsnew... Talk's page here: http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:BL1 (also has link to slides)
There's also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics , which shows 5,197,869 accounts, presumably since http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_day
Others may have number of views per unit time, or other stats, including number of anon editors (which aren't in the above).
-- All the best, Nick.
-----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of David Gerard Sent: Wednesday, 29 August 2007 7:25 PM To: English Wikipedia; Wikimedia developers Subject: [Wikitech-l] Statistic needed: uptake of Wikipedia?
I've been asked for a statistic and I'm not sure where to look: the uptake of Wikipedia. That is, how many new users come to the site per unit time (any unit time). Could be readers or editors, could be English Wikipedia or all Wikipedias. Anyone got a pointer to a substantiable number?
- d.
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This
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? title=Special:Log&type=newusers&user=&page=&pattern=&limit=5000&offset=0
Gives > 5000 just so far today
Jim
On Aug 29, 2007, at 5:18 AM, Nick Jenkins wrote:
I'm not quite sure if it's what you're looking for, but the only number I recall hearing fairly recently was Brianna's stat of 10641 new user accounts created in one 24 hour period this year for EN, and that this was a fairly standard number. There was also a breakdown of how those new accounts faired over a period of time. My quick summary of the talk: http://blog.nickj.org/2007/08/10/wikimania-2007-talk- specialcontributionsnewbies-user-study-of-newly-registered-user- behaviour/ Talk's page here: http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Proceedings:BL1 (also has link to slides)
There's also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics , which shows 5,197,869 accounts, presumably since http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikipedia_day
Others may have number of views per unit time, or other stats, including number of anon editors (which aren't in the above).
-- All the best, Nick.
-----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of David Gerard Sent: Wednesday, 29 August 2007 7:25 PM To: English Wikipedia; Wikimedia developers Subject: [Wikitech-l] Statistic needed: uptake of Wikipedia?
I've been asked for a statistic and I'm not sure where to look: the uptake of Wikipedia. That is, how many new users come to the site per unit time (any unit time). Could be readers or editors, could be English Wikipedia or all Wikipedias. Anyone got a pointer to a substantiable number?
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Looking at the contribs of some of the new users is, um, entertaining. It will be interesting to see the half-life of things like this
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? title=Franz_Carr&diff=154421232&oldid=141980752
and this
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? title=Wei_Yan&diff=prev&oldid=154420793
Jim On Aug 29, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Jim Hu wrote:
This
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? title=Special:Log&type=newusers&user=&page=&pattern=&limit=5000&offset =0
Gives > 5000 just so far today
Jim
On Aug 29, 2007, at 5:18 AM, Nick Jenkins wrote:
I'm not quite sure if it's what you're looking for, but the only number I recall hearing fairly recently was Brianna's stat of 10641 new user accounts created in one 24 hour period this year for EN, and that this was a fairly standard number. There was also a breakdown of how those new accounts faired over a period of time. My quick summary of the talk: http://blog.nickj.org/2007/08/10/wikimania-2007-talk- specialcontributionsnewbies-user-study-of-newly-registered-user- behaviour/ Talk's page here: http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Proceedings:BL1 (also has link to slides)
There's also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics , which shows 5,197,869 accounts, presumably since http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikipedia_day
Others may have number of views per unit time, or other stats, including number of anon editors (which aren't in the above).
-- All the best, Nick.
-----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of David Gerard Sent: Wednesday, 29 August 2007 7:25 PM To: English Wikipedia; Wikimedia developers Subject: [Wikitech-l] Statistic needed: uptake of Wikipedia?
I've been asked for a statistic and I'm not sure where to look: the uptake of Wikipedia. That is, how many new users come to the site per unit time (any unit time). Could be readers or editors, could be English Wikipedia or all Wikipedias. Anyone got a pointer to a substantiable number?
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On Aug 29, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Jim Hu wrote:
Looking at the contribs of some of the new users is, um, entertaining. It will be interesting to see the half-life of things like this
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? title=Franz_Carr&diff=154421232&oldid=141980752
and this
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? title=Wei_Yan&diff=prev&oldid=154420793
3 seconds for this one to go!
Jim On Aug 29, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Jim Hu wrote:
===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054
2007/8/29, Jim Hu jimhu@tamu.edu:
3 seconds for this one to go!
3 minutes, actually, but that's still pretty fast. :)
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 10:24 +0100, David Gerard wrote:
Could be readers or editors, could be English Wikipedia or all Wikipedias. Anyone got a pointer to a substantiable number?
I use these:
http://s23.org/wikistats/ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edits_by_project_and_country_of_origin
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