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Evernote ignores security flaw for months
Usually this blog is about Wikimedia statistics. Today I need to digress. My favorite cross-platform archival system is the hugely popular Evernote. I use Evernote for all kinds of data and images, and...
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Wikipedia page reads, breakdown by region
As we know in some regions of the world people have more easily access to Wikipedia than in others. The majority of reads come from the so called Global North (*). Now is this unbalance between North...
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Monthly page requests, new archives and reports
The compaction of hourly page request files into daily, then daily into monthly is now operational. I fixed and simplified earlier scripts. For Dec 2012 data reduction is as follows: 744 hourly files:...
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The statistics we maintain within the Wikimedia movement broadly fall into two categories. Part is there to inspire us, with limited feedback to our daily activities. Part is there to reveal patterns...
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Monthly edits on Wikimedia wikis still on the rise
This chart shows that the overall volume of manual edits by registered users on all Wikimedia wikis combined is still increasing, slowly but steadily. When we substract rookie edits (arbitrarily set to...
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Boston Marathon bombings
On April 15, 2013 at 2.49 PM local time (EDT) two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. At 3.19 PM the first mention of the tragedy was made on the English Wikipedia in article...
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What Wikipedia readers devour
Recently I wrote a new tool for Wikipedia which makes good use of the consolidated page request files and the page category system, to rank thematic sets of Wikipedia pages by popularity. Tool and...
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Wiki Loves Monuments 2010-2012 – Retention / Stats per Country
A few weeks ago, at the Amsterdam Hackaton, Lodewijk Gelauff (aka Effeietsanders) asked me to look into the Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) data and provide a list of images, who uploaded them, when, and...
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New Edit and Revert Stats
Finally on popular request edit/revert stats will now be generated each month for all Wikimedia projects. For the largest Wikipedias some new charts are already online: English, Japanese, German,...
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Wikimedia editor trends broken down by project
Since a few years we present monthly deduplicated totals for active and very active editors. Deduplicated meaning: every editor only counts once, regardless of number of wikis edited. We never...
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Full archive dumps are being processed again, first since 2010
There is not Wikistats issue for which I received more mails than this: since 2010 some metrics on article content were no longer updated: word count, articles above 200 chars, mean size in bytes,...
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Portal stats.wikimedia.org can now be searched
Wikimedia stats portal stats.wikimedia.org now features more tools and reports than ever (57 and growing). An often heard complaint was that the portal was a bit overwhelming and hard to navigate. Two...
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Reassessment of active editors
Yesterday I discovered a bug in wikistats which affects our editor counts for the last 2 years. Wikistats does flag users as ‘anonymous’ based on pattern recognition, rather than relying on the...
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Wiki Loves Monuments 2013
Here are some charts on the breakdown by country of contributions and contributors to Wiki Loves Monuments 2013. Better late than never. I meant to publish this together with retention stats, but those...
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Traffic to Wikipedia’s mobile site is growing fast
Since 2008 WMF count monthly page views for the non-mobile site. Since June 2010 also for the mobile site. From the respective monthly totals we can calculate which share of the traffic goes to the...
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Isotype diagrams are now easier to build on Wikipedia
Did you ever study a table with many large numbers, where the moment you put it away you realized nothing from what you just saw had stuck? I guess most of us suffer from this handicap that large...
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Setting the standard for a new unit of measurement can be tedious and even...
A small essay for your amusement: I am reading a book about how some of today’s most fundamental units of measurement were defined and calibrated. The more precision one requires, the harder a...
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WikiProject Medicine Translation Task Force
At Wikimania 2014 James Heilman - Canadian emergency room physician – gave a presentation on Wikipedia and Medicine . He explained how leading non-profit health organizations like the Cochrane...
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Wiki Loves Monuments 2014
Here are results of Wiki Loves Monument (WLM) 2014 contest. Some charts are about image uploads. Some about image uploaders, also known as contributors. Countries With 41 participating countries, 11...
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