Dear Lars,
This is really cool! Thanks so much for sharing this with us. Is the source
code available somewhere by any chance?
Best,
Diederik
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se> wrote:
I hope the following is useful to someone and I
welcome feedback.
I have uploaded some raw statistics data to the Internet Archive,
counting the external links by Wikimedia project and target website
domain. For each database dump, I produced a CSV file.
For January 2008, the websites with most links from en.wikipedia
can be found by "sort -nr enwiki-20080103-linkstats.csv":
1939434,en.wikipedia.org
378267,tools.wikimedia.de
294030,wikimediafoundation.org
139856,creativecommons.org
122630,imdb.com
87257,ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
73792,news.bbc.co.uk
67776,iucnredlist.org
65595,rhaworth.myby.co.uk
63236,dx.doi.org
I only counted links from the main (article), File, Author, Index
and Portal namespaces. I removed initial "www." from the domains,
counting
www.imdb.com as
imdb.com. Only counts of 10 or more are
included.
The uploaded files are grouped by year, quarter or month:
http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_2008
http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_2009
http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_Q1_2010
http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_Q2_2010
http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_Q3_2010
http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_Q4_2010
http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_201101
http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_201102
http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_201103
http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_201104
http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_201105
http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_201106
http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_201107
http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_201108
http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_201109
Over time, the number of links to the old and new domain of
the British Museum have evolved like this:
20080103 256,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
45,britishmuseum.org
20091103 199,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
350,britishmuseum.org
20100116 194,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
396,britishmuseum.org
20100817 141,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
950,britishmuseum.org
20100904 141,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
980,britishmuseum.org
20100916 141,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
1005,britishmuseum.org
20101002 141,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
1034,britishmuseum.org
20101011 141,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
1047,britishmuseum.org
20110115 142,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
1100,britishmuseum.org
20110317 142,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
1132,britishmuseum.org
20110405 142,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
1138,britishmuseum.org
20110526 142,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
1171,britishmuseum.org
20110620 142,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
1188,britishmuseum.org
20110722 142,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
1201,britishmuseum.org
20110803 141,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
1213,britishmuseum.org
20110901 141,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
1222,britishmuseum.org
The fast change during Liam Wyatt's month in residence in May/June (?)
of 2010 has continued at a much slower pace.
Some other Wikimedia projects that have links to the old
domain thebritishmuseum.ac.uk are:
10,cawiki
20,commonswiki
36,dewiki
141,enwiki
27,eswiki
20,frwiki
13,huwiki
14,itwiki
10,jawiki
13,nowiki
10,ptwiki
19,ruwiki
13,shwiki
14,svwiki
12,trwiki
To find and update these links, use the [[Special:Linksearch]] page.
--
Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik -
http://aronsson.se
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