[Foundation-l] leaflets

[Brian]

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 at 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.
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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<http://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.
>
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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
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