Wikipedia talk:Statistics

New popular page report

Please see User:West.andrew.g/Popular pages.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 13:48, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

See also that talk page if interested to help West.andrew.g with any advice on how to figure out how many FAs and GAs are part of the list. Biosthmors (talk) 23:45, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

• As a follow-on to the WP:5000 reports, a new weekly chart (human-moderated to remove non-article pages and the like) of the Top 25 articles of each week is available at Wikipedia:5000/Top25Report.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 14:43, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Articles by quality and importance statistics

All rated articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low ??? Total FA 1,577 2,505 2,419 1,961 181 8,643 FL 181 688 768 703 100 2,440 A 371 681 788 584 91 2,515 GA 3,247 7,385 14,818 19,733 1,761 46,944 B 17,003 32,999 54,700 69,931 23,536 198,169 C 17,004 54,392 136,175 313,538 92,626 613,735 Start 18,535 92,540 417,328 1,634,171 414,252 2,576,826 Stub 4,278 31,442 277,892 2,808,993 762,904 3,885,509 List 4,901 17,268 54,231 196,601 69,853 342,854 Assessed 67,097 239,900 959,119 5,046,215 1,365,304 7,677,635 Unassessed 123 482 1,239 17,008 405,677 424,529 Total 67,220 240,382 960,358 5,063,223 1,770,981 8,102,164 About this table

I threw this "All rated articles by quality and importance" table onto the page. Should we track how we are doing with it? Also, it would be nice to have some sort of a graphical indication on how the articles move around (hopefully all up into the FA and FL rows by the end of the week. ). -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 06:16, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Pageviews for a template

Is there a way to collect pageview stats for a given template? Not for the template page itself, but the sum total of all pageviews for pages that included the template. AlexanderPico (talk) 00:01, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

introduction to statistics

Do we have an article on this topic? I notice that we have Introduction to Statistics, but that's about a TV episode. -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 04:02, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Looking for data

I am trying to figure out a few values:

1. How many medical articles exist in other languages. We could base this on the interlanguage links found at Wikidata.
2. How many pageviews the medical articles get in other languages. Once we figure out what is a "medical article" we could then use stat.grok.se to figure this out and produce a nice table like this one. [1]
3. How many edits occur to medical articles in X amount of time. We used to have this page[2] but it no longer works. And we have this page but it seems to only list articles beginning with A [3]
4. I am trying to figure out how many people are active in WP:MED and has this value changed over time? We have this list here [4] but it does not say how many have edited in the last 3 months (would love to have a bot to figure this out). We also have this catagory which lists 453 users [5] but same issue we have no idea how many article (once again maybe a bot). The other method would be to look at all the edits to this project in the last month and than see how many registered users made them.

Thoughts? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 16:58, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Updating

Why are so many Wikipedia Stat pages no longer updated? Some of them stop in 2006, 2009, 2011...collecting information about readers are looking for and what editors are working on is key to evaluating your progress. With the tools that are available these days, it's not even that complicated. Wikipedia dropping the ball just doesn't make sense. Newjerseyliz (talk) 21:49, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Meaning of Graph

I'm afraid I don't understand one of the graphs in this article - the '% of editors who make 100 edits of those who make 5'; I think it's saying that, for example, in Jan 13, there were approximately 10 times as many editors who made 5 edits as made 100. That seems plausible, but even if I've interpreted it correctly, what does that tell us? 5 and 100 are somewhat arbitrary numbers. Are the figures available for a frequency graph of the number of editors who make 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc edits per month?

statistics by type of access

Is there a statistic which shows how wikipedia is accessed? HTTP vs. HTTPS vs. API? 78.35.203.107 (talk) 10:12, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Active articles

Love to see a ranking of articles by 1-day, 1-week, 1-month and 1-year edit frequency. Shows you where the hot spots are. I speculate that this often indicates an increased role for admins. Lfstevens (talk) 05:52, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

More statistics?

After watching a variety of interviews on Youtube of Jimmy Wales, I'd love to read more statistics. He discusses such things as donation percentages and categories, and popularity of different languages. It'd be nice to see this expanded, except I'm not sure where to find these kind of statistics if they are not released by Wikipedia themselves? (Tetriminos (talk) 18:03, 12 December 2013 (UTC))

Two cool statistical tables; 2013 on en.wp

Greetings everyone. After much processing has been brought to bear, I've aggregated all the page view statistics for 2013 (I'm the guy who does WP:5000 on a weekly basis). I thought these would likely be of broader interest, so I decided to post here. For a more analytical discussion about what drives these statistics, see our older Signpost article.

• The 10,000 most popular pages of 2013 (be patient with load time!)

ARTICLE            | VIEWS
--------------------------------------
[[Main_Page]]      | 3,895,581,597
[[Facebook]]       | 30,608,777
[[Deaths_in_2013]] | 21,246,624
[[Breaking_Bad]]   | 17,389,161
[[Google]]         | 16,759,294
[[World_War_II]]   | 16,676,636
[[Wiki]]           | 16,285,560
[[YouTube]]        | 15,938,076

• Articles with most views in a single hour

ARTICLE                  | UTC DATE          | VIEWS     | REASON
----------------------------------------------------------------------
[[Jorge_Bergoglio]]	 | March 13, 2013    | 1,460,586 | Papal ascension
[[Shakuntala_Devi]]	 | November 4, 2013  | 766,256   | Google Doodle
[[Paul_Walker]]	         | December 1, 2013  | 752,770   | Death
[[Grace_Hopper]]	 | December 9, 2013  | 621,694   | Google Doodle
[[Nelson_Mandela]]	 | December 5, 2013  | 484,966   | Death
[[Jodie_Foster]]         | January 14, 2013  | 451,270   | Came out at Golden Globes
[[Beyonc%C3%A9_Knowles]] | February 4, 2013  | 378,923   | Super bowl halftime
[[Nicolaus_Copernicus]]  | February 19, 2013 | 336,836   | Google Doodle
[[Seth_MacFarlane]]      | February 25, 2013 | 320,999   | Hosted the Oscars
[[Daniel_Day-Lewis]]     | February 25, 2013 | 318,839   | Oscars
[[Society_of_Jesus]]     | March 13, 2013    | 287,568   | Papal ascension
[[Mindy_McCready]]       | February 18, 2013 | 282,679   | Death
[[Hermann_Rorschach]]	 | November 8, 2013  | 276,072   | Google Doodle
[[Edith_Head]]           | October 28, 2013  | 263,915   | Google Doodle
[[Raymond_Loewy]]	 | November 5, 2013  | 258,301   | Google Doodle
[[Margaret_Thatcher]]    | April 8, 2013     | 252,906   | Death
[[Pope_Francis]]         | March 13, 2013    | 248,753   | Papal ascension
[[Peter_Capaldi]]        | August 4, 2013    | 244,667   | Announced as next Dr. Who

Thanks everyone! West.andrew.g (talk) 21:26, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Major revamp

Hello. I have revamped the whole page, I hope now is better. Still needs some effort though. emijrp (talk) 17:22, 26 June 2014 (UTC) geas neos keas — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:203:4300:8800:DC14:45ED:10E5:D19F (talk) 01:19, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Backlog stats

By my rough SWAG, there are ±1,700,00 back-logged tags on WP that need some sort of work or editing. With this in mind, some attention is needed to determine the trends as to these tags. Is this a growing problem, steady-state, or what? (Sadly the WikiProject which might look at this figure, and thereby give us some analysis, is inactive.) – S. Rich (talk) 06:48, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

4,960,278 or 5,067,981 articles?

Both these two number appear in close proximity at Wikipedia:Statistics#Statistics. Which is the correct number? Just curious. Ottawahitech (talk) 21:40, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

Page edit stats

We need to list tools for page edit stats, not just page views.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  00:02, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Found one useful one so far:

• Xtools-articleinfo at WMFLabs (general page stats, by year and month, with charts, etc.)

 — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  00:16, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Ideas for some statistics

• 1. Total number of articles in all Wikipedias
• 2. Total number of unique articles in all Wikipedias
• 3. Common sets between different Wikipedias (how close they are culturally, how many articles overlap)

Marcin862 (talk) 07:22, 28 May 2016 (UTC

Marcin862, good ideas. I do read other Wikipedias (translated into English) and wonder about these things. Greg Dahlen (talk) 15:30, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Total bytes of editing

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Stats/Top_English_medical_editors_2013b lists:

• Changed bytes
• Added bytes
• Deleted bytes

Can I list my total edits in bytes (changed bytes + added bytes + deleted bytes)?

I cannot find anything about byte listing at https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/.

My opinion is that "Number of edits:" seen in Special:Preferences should be replaced with "Number of edit bytes" to help people with Editcountitis. --Gstree (talk) 03:26, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Older most-viewed reports

Prior to the creation of the WP:TOP25 in January 2013, aside from year-end reports, I was looking for any weekly/monthly reports of article traffic. I see that around September 2006 a tool called "Wikicharts" was created which seemed to have a monthly Top 100. Is anyone aware of those being archived anywhere? I would like to resuscitate that data to include in our Top25 archives. Even farther back, in 2002-2004, it appears monthly usage reports were posted at wikimedia.org/stats/en.wikipedia.org -- anyone know where they might be currently found? Some can be unearthed on archive.org (Dec 2002), but I was hoping they might be compiled somewhere. I was able to dig up and create a Chart for February 2004 -- After Current events (44,660 views), the most popular articles were Goatse.cx (24,425 views), United States (22,267 views), and Lunokhod program (21,742 (due to appearing on Slashdot). Cheers!--Milowent • ^hasspoken 17:22, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Signal estimation

Please join this rename discussion about signal estimation. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:08, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

Deletion and vandalism

Why is there is a sub-heading "Deletion and vandalism statistics?" This seems to be just about deletion. Vorbee (talk) 09:45, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Quite right Vorbee, the section appears to have never contained any stats relating to vandalism, and I'm not aware of any that could be used. This chart which I've added shows day-by-day numbers of reverts by different means. Reverting is of course done for many reasons, but the edits reverted by ClueBot, Huggle, and STiki will primarily be vandalism: Noyster (talk), 13:58, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Focus on women mathematicians and statisticians in February

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--Ipigott (talk) 14:49, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Useful wikistats visualisation subpage?

Shouldn't we add a separate entry for https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/animations/wivivi/wivivi.html ? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:12, 12 March 2018 (UTC)--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:12, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Length of activity statistics

Would it be possible/practical to have statistics on length of activity on Wikipedia? Some distinction would have to be made between 'regular contributors' and 'intermittent/occasional contributors (possibly with occasional flurries of activity)'. Jackiespeel (talk) 15:56, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

I think this is possible, someone just needs to code it... --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:00, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Islamophobia bar chart feedback requested

Your feedback regarding a bar chart in the article Islamophobia is requested; please see Talk:Islamophobia#Bar chart. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 04:07, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Including policy about Statistics in articles

Where can I find any policy about including statistics in articles? The Manual of Style section about table sizes says "overloading tables with too much detailed statistical data is against policy" but that is not explained or even covered here. It seems there is no policy about including statistics in articles and the only reason that statistic are against policy is because large tables of unexplained statistics make articles unreadable. I would have thought that some mention of what statistics should be presented in articles should appear on a page entitled statistics, even if it was just a reference redirecting editors to read a Manual of Style article or a similar policy statement. Can something be added to help the reader? - 210.86.82.145 (talk) 05:21, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

Seeking talk page statistics

Hello, is there anywhere doing statistics on talk page activity? How many talk posts a day, how many pages active at one time? I'm interested in proposing a sort of live cataloguing system for a sort of noticeboard of talk page activity. I need to figure out how many talk pages are in discussion during one week, two weeks, three weeks, four weeks type of thing, and also the rate of unanswered talk posts among them. Ever been a project recording that sort of thing? ~ R.T.G 10:04, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Six million

In the midst of a long extended wikibreak, but just had to break my (wiki)break for this. Congrats and celebrations, Wikipedia - way to enter the 20s - yeah! Ema--or (talk) 16:20, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

Least viewed

We have plenty of information about traffic at the top end, but what of the presumed millions of wallflowers? Do we know how many views per year or day are needed to get out of the bottom decile or median of all articles? Jim.henderson (talk) 16:36, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

discrepancy between page and source

The Most linked external domains link in the links section said as of April 2011, but the source itself said as of June 2014, I have changed this in my edit but I forgot to put a summary, feel free to revert if I was wrong.

stats numbering articles by category

Has anyone analyzed what percent of Wikipedia articles are about people, what percent about things, what percent about events, etc.? If not, it'd be interesting. Technically, would it be able to be done, apart from the time and effort someone(s) would have to expend? Greg Dahlen (talk) 15:36, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Not things or events, but over quarter of articles are people. As of 2022, people approach 1.9 million articles.--Maxaxax (talk) 20:41, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

Statistics for categories is lacking. Specifically:

• Number of categories
• Categories by number of pages
• Categories by number of subcategories
• Categories by total views of all contained pages/subcategories

Massview does not work for categories over 20,000 pages, nor for multiyear periods for categories over 5000 pages. TreeView designed for categories does not work, at least on smartphone. No category statistics is traced on the web, except Quora stating 1.8 million categories existing in 2019.

Any suggestions for tools / sources?--Maxaxax (talk) 20:34, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

"Most viewed article" listed at Redirects for discussion

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"Wikipedia:Most viewed articles" listed at Redirects for discussion

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"Wikipedia:Most edited article" listed at Redirects for discussion

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"Wikipedia:Most popular articles" listed at Redirects for discussion

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"Wikipedia:List of most popular articles" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Articles per country

In the German language Wikipedia there are statistics of the number of articles for each country/state/continent (by category): de:Wikipedia:Statistik/Artikelanzahl nach Staat. Does that exist for the English version somewhere as well? Lupe (talk) 13:50, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

number of edits by hour over an average week

I'm curious about the times of day when editors are most active. If that's listed, my eye missed it. —Tamfang (talk) 21:56, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

deletion stats

wmcharts seems to be out of date: https://wmcharts.toolforge.org/wmchart0004.php is there any other tool to obtain the number of article deletions per day over a year, please? it doesn't need to be a graphical plot, a table or list would be fine. thanks! fgnievinski (talk) 05:07, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Screen resolutions?

I need stats regarding screen resolutions for Russian Wikipedia, it is crucial for the Russian Wikipedia. I couldn't find any stats about user agent details. Nikolay Komarov (talk) 08:38, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

"While you read this page, Wikipedia develops at a rate of over 2 edits every second"

This statement probably applies to the English Wikipedia. Taking all Wikipedia language versions into account, this figure should be higher. If this is really only considering the English Wikipedia, then the sentence should be changed accordingly.-- Maxeto0910 (talk) 20:13, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

This page focuses on enwiki statistics because we're on the English Wikipedia. I don't think this necessarily needs to be changed for that reason. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 20:32, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

This should definitely be made clear by changing the sentence accordingly, as the current wording clearly implies that this figure applies to Wikipedia in general since the text only mentions specifically the English Wikipedia one sentence later. Maxeto0910 (talk) 21:30, 7 September 2024 (UTC)