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State of the Commons/2015

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Acronyms:

Deadline to deliver the metrics:

  • October 30, 2015

Wikipedia

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Definitions

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  • The "platform" is Wikipedia (all languages combined).
  • A "work" is an article. This definition is consistent with previous "State of the Commons" reports.

Makeup of CC licensed works on your platform

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P Metric Value Date Source Notes
priority number of works under each CC license and public domain tool (6 CC licenses, plus CC0 and PDM) 35.9 million 2015-08 WikiStats This is the total number of Wikipedia articles across languages, since they are all under CC-by-sa 3.0 (in addition to GFDL).
If applicable, number of works under Version 4.0 of the license suite n/a - -
priority number of CC/PDM works by content type n/a - - Per the definition above, there is only one type of content counted as a "work" on Wikipedia.
priority percentage of works under CC or public domain out of ALL works on your platform 100% - - Per the definition, a work is an article, and all articles are under CC-by-sa 3.0.

CC usage metrics

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P Metric Value Date Source Notes
Total number of downloads of content under CC licenses, CC0 or PDM n/a - -
Total number of views and/or streams of CC content 199.7 billion Nov 2014–Oct 2015 (1 year) projectview_hourly (April-October) and pageviews05 (November-March, adjusted) Page views to Wikipedia sites, excluding bots and crawlers.

Makeup of users by aggregate

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P Metric Value Date Source Notes
priority number of users registered on your platform 42,116,280 2015-10-19 Direct query; see talk page
number of users registered in the past 3 months 1,087,269 2015-10-19 Direct query; see talk page
priority number of registered users that are active 69,419 2015-08 WikiStats "Active users" is defined as "registered users who contributed 5 times or more in the past month".

Makeup of users by CC subset

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P Metric Value Date Source Notes
priority number of users that use CC licenses, CC0 or PDM for their content n/a - - This is the same as the total number of users, since all articles are under CC-by-sa 3.0.
number of users by geographic region n/a - - Information not available
number of users by age range n/a - - Information not available
number of users by type, e.g. institution vs individual; verified vs average (include types most applicable to your platform) n/a - - Information not available
licensing patterns, e.g. average number of CC works uploaded per user; preference for one default license or different licenses per user n/a - -
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P Metric Value Date Source Notes
browsing patterns, e.g. more activity during weekdays than weekends; average length of stay on site
migration from one license to another
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"What is your most popular piece of CC content you'd like to feature for 2015?" Doing...

Wikimedia Commons

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Definitions and caveats

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  • The "platform" is Wikimedia Commons.
  • A "work" is a file, i.e. a page in the File: namespace that isn't a subpage.
  • When counting Creative Commons files, we're using categories that start with CC-. This is a good approximation of what we want to measure, but it's inexact. There are some false positives, most of which we explicitly exclude, like aircraft registration numbers. As for false negatives, files using Custom CC license tags are only counted if they appear in a category that follows the naming conventions of the main CC license categories.

Makeup of CC licensed works on your platform

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P Metric Value Date Source Notes
priority number of works under each CC license and public domain tool (6 CC licenses, plus CC0 and PDM)
Status Count
CC0 832,515
CC-BY 3,427,781
CC-BY-NC 4,839
CC-BY-SA 17,385,701
CC-BY-ND 0
CC-BY-NC-SA 123
CC-BY-NC-ND 3
CC-PDM 2,842,466
2015-10-15 Database queries: See also Category:CC nonfree and Category:Free Creative Commons licenses.
If applicable, number of works under Version 4.0 of the license suite 2,902,825 2015-10-13 Database query
priority number of CC/PDM works by content type
type count
bitmap 22,490,140
drawing 634,179
audio 563,706
office 179,733
video 58,599
multimedia 23
2015-10-16 Database queries:
priority percentage of works under CC or public domain out of ALL works on your platform 83.2%

(23,921,451 out of 28,761,542)

2015-10-15 Database queries: Wikimedia Commons has files in the Public domain, but they're not counted here since Wikimedia Commons doesn't use the CC Public domain mark.

CC usage metrics

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P Metric Value Date Source Notes
Total number of downloads of content under CC licenses, CC0 or PDM
Total number of views and/or streams of CC content

Makeup of users by aggregate

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P Metric Value Date Source Notes
priority number of users registered on your platform 5,254,013 2015-10-19 Direct query; see talk page
number of users registered in the past 3 months 283,890 2015-10-19 Direct query; see talk page
priority number of registered users that are active 8,047 2015-08 WikiStats "Active users" is defined as "registered users who contributed 5 times or more in the past month".

Makeup of users by CC subset

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P Metric Value Date Source Notes
priority number of users that use CC licenses, CC0 or PDM for their content 649,886 2015-10-16 Database query
number of users by geographic region n/a - - Information not available
number of users by age range n/a - - Information not available
number of users by type, e.g. institution vs individual; verified vs average (include types most applicable to your platform) n/a - - Information not available
licensing patterns, e.g. average number of CC works uploaded per user; preference for one default license or different licenses per user n/a - - Information not available
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P Metric Value Date Source Notes
browsing patterns, e.g. more activity during weekdays than weekends; average length of stay on site
migration from one license to another n/a
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"What is your most popular piece of CC content you'd like to feature for 2015?" Doing...