[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Projects Growth Animated

[Florence Devouard]

David Gerard wrote:
> 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.



Makes sense. I only have Firefox 2, so can not run the animation. I only 
see the last position :-)

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