[Foundation-l] Fundraising and change to the wikipedia traffic rating

[Ray Saintonge]

Robert Scott Horning wrote:

> db wrote:
>
>> About wikipedia traffic rating:
>> Wikipedia is now one of the 25 (NOT 35) most visited
>> websites in the world:
>> http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=3m&size=large&compare_sites=&y=t&url=wikipedia.org#top 
>>
>>
>> Can we update this information on the wikimedia
>> foundation homepage?
>
> Since this topic has been brought up, I'd like to make mention that 
> the other sister projects aren't doing too bad either
>
> Wikibooks:
>
> http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&compare_sites=&y=t&q=&url=wikibooks.org 
>
>
> happens to be in the top 6,000 websites, and is one of the leading 
> e-text websites that has independent measure on Alexa.  Gutenberg.org 
> is the only one that ranks higher at the moment that I can tell from, 
> and that is a close call.  Wikibooks simply blows out of the water 
> almost all other e-text websites of any kind, for profit or not.
>
> Wikinews has very similar stats, Wiktionary is actually outperforming 
> Wikibooks currently, and Wikiquote is almost dead even with Wikibooks.
>
> BTW, you can look at Wikispecies for your own enjoyment.
>
> All of them have shown recent growth as well, and not all of this 
> growth can be directly attributed to spin-off from Wikipedia.
>
> Wikimedia.org is in the top 1000 at the moment by itself, although it 
> would be hard pressed to see what the traffic is between Meta and 
> Commons as Alexa lumps them together for traffic ratings.

I was curious about that too, and looked at all that before I saw 
Robert's answer.  Two other tidbits!  The second most popular language 
for Wiktionary is Russian.  For Wikisource it's Arabic!

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