[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Projects Growth Animated

[David Gerard]

On 26/03/2008, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Brion Vibber wrote:
>  > Brian wrote:

>  >> Very cool! The growth of the smallest wikis seems to be greatly
>  >> over-exaggerated on that scale. Wikis with less than 100 articles take up
>  >> roughly 30% of the screen real estate and wikis with less than 10k articles
>  >> take up more than half.

>  > It's a logarithmic scale, which is basically the only way you're going
>  > to see the smaller ones at all -- on a linear scale they'd be totally
>  > dwarfed by the few biggest. :)

> Errr
>  why is En 6 years old, whilst fr, de, es are nearly 7 ?


Because we've only just got a good full history backup of en:wp, and
Erik Zachte hasn't run the stats on it as yet. (I offered to help, but
couldn't secure a spare machine as yet ...) So the graph runs only up
to late 2006.


- d.