Efficiency

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This page is a proposal for new Wikimedia indicator

So, it's showing us: how many edits we need to write milions words, how many non-articles we need to write thousands articles and how many stubs we need to write thousands non-stubs.

The efficiency or effective working in Wikipedia (or other websites based on MediaWiki) is a rough indicator of the site's production efficiency, showing how much energy we need to write thousands "good size" articles. A proposed definition of efficiency is:

or

Used data:

Example calculations[edit]

Language Articles Non-articles >2kb/<0.5kb Edits Words (M) Efficiency Date[1]
en
de 876716 1634328 4.9 59773408 401 17.63 09.03.2009
fr 775720 2282127 2.25 41225848 344 6.38 09.03.2009
pl 585909 438204 1.22 16981831 149 14.31 09.03.2009
ja 568979 879878 1 25241867 306 7.84 09.03.2009
it 547846 1097970 2.77 24790652 222 12.38 09.03.2009
nl 524138 699954 2.07 16308432 150 14.26 09.03.2009
pt 464629 1341129 0.91 14630718 125 2.69 09.03.2009
es 451712 1125137 4.89 26159554 229 17.19 09.03.2009
ru 367060 963317 2.57 14751713 129 8.56 09.03.2009
sv 308833 457499 0.46 8844375 64.8 2.28 09.03.2009
zh 238147 543103 0.39 9591939 99.5 1.77 09.03.2009
no 210278 289588 0.75 5427367 51.5 5.17 09.03.2009
fi 196330 320045 1.71 6534262 49.1 7.88 09.03.2009
ca 164173 229341 1.31 3434541 53.7 14.66 09.03.2009
uk 139813 219995 0.86 2341375 31.2 7.28 09.03.2009
tr 125502 409798 1.31 5503346 35.3 2.57 09.03.2009
ro 122025 253181 0.3 2874321 26.3 1.32 09.03.2009
cs 121410 189205 2.27 3784913 44.1 16.97 09.03.2009
hu 120652 269332 3.14 5234024 52 13.98 09.03.2009
vo 118763 125861 0.03[2] 1750359 14 0.23 09.03.2009
eo 111698 136112 0.64 2161878 21.8 5.3 09.03.2009
sk 105950 115594 0.41 2181452 24.6 4.24 09.03.2009
da 104357 165510 0.69 3044133 25.5 3.64 09.03.2009
id 100753 195559 0.45 2408580 22.3 2.15 09.03.2009
  1. Erik Zachte stats (nov 2008)
  2. if vo wiki has 1% > 2kb articles

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