Wikipedia talk:Statistics

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?

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)

Ten years later I am doing another major revamp. I hope the new design is more useful. emijrp (talk) 19:09, 18 January 2025 (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.

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)

I wasn't able to find such a page on the English Wikipedia; the closest I could find was this, though it still isn't the same at all and gives only a very rough estimate of how much coverage a country has in the English Wikipedia. It'd be great to have such a page in the English Wikipedia well. Maxeto0910 (talk) 07:05, 4 March 2025 (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)

In Wikiscan you can see the edits in the last 24 hours in a graph on the right side. emijrp (talk) 18:29, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

This one is helpful too. emijrp (talk) 19:50, 20 January 2025 (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wmcharts seems to be out of date: https://wmcharts.toolforge.org/wmchart0004.php is there any other tool to obtain the number of article deletions per day over a year, please?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)

Wikiscan shows that data. The link goes to January 2025, change the parameter accordingly. emijrp (talk) 18:24, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

Super, thank you! Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 18:40, 19 January 2025 (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)

@Nikolay Komarov, you might be interested in the related question of mw:Browser support. That talk page, or the mw:Project:Village Pump, might be a way to find someone with the information you need. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:25, 20 February 2025 (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)

I am going to improve the intro adding that clarification. emijrp (talk) 18:21, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

IPv4 maps of unregistered editors of different language Wikipedias

In light of the upcoming shutdown of displaying IPs of unregistered users, I remembered such posts and decided to make maps of the IPv4 address space, showing from which ranges different wikipedias were mainly edited. I made about 40 maps of the largest wikipedias and uploaded the ones that seemed most interesting to me. (My algorithm for arranging squares differs from the one used in the above posts, class A ranges are in order, 16 in a row, then the next row, and so on.) The red numbers are the value of the first octet of the range, each range is laid out in a square with a side of 256 for the first octet, 16 for the second, each range A.B.C.0/24 is one pixel (so entire picture is 4096x4096), and the brightness of the pixel is calculated depending on how many of its 256 IPs made edits in this language wikipedia. Due to the IPv4 architecture, the last 1/8 of the entire address space cannot be client IPs, in their place I put the name of a certain wikipedia. See all maps in c:Category:IPv4 maps of unregistered Wikimedia editors.

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  ceb (lol, yes)

MBH (talk) 16:39, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

I also made a page where you can hover your mouse over a specific area on the map and see in a tooltip what this A.B.0.0/16 range is and what organization or continent it is assigned to according to https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xhtml (the captions are in Russian for now, later I will make it possible to choose a map of different language sections and captions in English). MBH (talk) 16:47, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

I also made a gif animation of IPs used for editing enwiki in 2002-2025. MBH (talk) 14:57, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

That's cool, thanks for your work. You could include the enwiki image in the "Users" section, which needs expansion. Regards. emijrp (talk) 17:21, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Math

@Cloud29371, I see that you were curious about the statement that "Because the top 0.1% of high-traffic articles can each get millions of page views in a year, the mean is about 100 times the median."

This is from unpublished data. On a sample set of 10,000 randomly selected articles created before 2023, the mean number of page views during 2023 was about 5,500 page views, and the median was 48 (just less than once a week). WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:43, 17 May 2025 (UTC)