Statistics

There are sources for statistics available about various Wikimedia projects. Please link to any you know of from this page. These statistics are limited to quantitative data; qualitative (non-numerical) data are excluded.

Groups within the Wikimedia movement collect many different statistical indicators for the purpose of evaluating the movement's work. These indicators live in many different dashboards and are cultivated by many different people. For information about raw data generated by Wikimedia projects, see Research:Data.

General-purpose dashboards

• Wikistats: key statistics such as pageviews, unique devices, editors, and pages, available both for individual project and cross-project
  • For documentation, see wikitech:Analytics/Wikistats.
  • The old version of Wikistats is no longer updated, but still accessible.
• Vital Signs: pageviews and unique devices per site, which are better covered by Wikistats (see early documentation)
• User agent breakdowns: information on browsers and operating systems used by site visitors
• Multilingual projects
  • Statistics by Magnus for Wikidata and wikidata:Category:Wikidata statistics
• Additionally, WMF and others maintain a number of other ad hoc scattered statistics using Limn or other similar software, you have to hunt them around (try e.g. google:limn+site:wmflabs.org).
  • Raw data powering those graphs is usually updated daily and visible at https://datasets.wikimedia.org/ ([1])
  • Some links by topic: Research:Data/Dashboards
  • http://language-reportcard.wmflabs.org/
  • GLAM statistics [2] (NARA pilot)
• Gender Metrics from Humaniki
• Cultural Diversity datasets and statistics: Wikipedia Diversity Observatory
• Wiki comparison tool: a Google spreadsheet with data snapshots you can use to sort and filter wikis by various statistics. Documentation at mw:Product Analytics/Comparison datasets
• Monthly movement metrics: a set of key metrics reported each month to the Wikimedia Foundation board by the Product department.
• Wikimedia descriptive statistics [public] : a Google spreadsheet with data snapshots of monthly metrics with description of the sources and methods used to calculate them

Editing

• mw:Wikimedia Product#Editing Audience
  • Most importantly: VisualEditor dashboards
  • Some were apparently discontinued in February 2014 (e.g. Echo)
  • Other VisualEditor-related stuff on grafana and elsewhere: [3] [4]
  • Weekly Editing Dashboard
• Edit rate
  • Wikistats : The count of edits (or revisions)
  • Wikipulse: edits per minute across a variety of projects
  • Page creation statistics
• Flow use
  • http://flow-reportcard.wmflabs.org/
• Gadget use on Wikimedia wikis

Traffic reporting

As of early 2016, the Pageviews Analysis tool is the most basic tool available for giving pageview reports on single Wikipedia articles to typical Wikimedia community members.

• Pageviews Analysis : If given the title of a Wikipedia article and a date range, this tool reports how many pageviews that article got in that range.
• Topviews : Most viewed pages of a project
• Mediaviews : If given the title of a media (image, video, audio etc.) and a date range, this tool reports how many pageviews that media request got in that range. You can also do a comparison of media requests across multiple files

External:

• Alexa traffic ranking, from the audience of multilingual users of Alexa's toolbar. (Note: not chosen to be 'representative' in any way; just from toolbar users.)
• Combined Alexa reach

Server and site performance

Information about what kind of day the Wikimedia servers are having. See Wikimedia servers#Status and problems for a complete list.

Project	Associated resources	Description	Major custodian(s)
Grafana		A dashboard for site performance and load metrics.

• Other mw:Performance profiling for Wikimedia code, for instance https://performance.wikimedia.org/

Other resources

Project	Associated resources	Description	Major custodian(s)
Metrics Standardization		A project led by the WMF's Research department which aims to define and identify useful metrics, which others can then collect and use.	Aaron Halfaker
Wikimetrics	Documentation in the Grants Evaluation portal	A web-based tool which allows coordinators of projects like edit-a-thons to track the editing activity of a specific cohort of users.
Movement Metrics	Core metrics-Data glossary	Definitions of core metrics of the Wikimedia Product department	Product Analytics team

MediaWiki

For full list, see mw:Development statistics.

Local statistics pages

Special:Statistics is available on all wikis (see Statistics of Wikimedia projects) and collated for all of them into mutante's wikistats (also archived on-wiki).

Wikipedia

Statistics in this section are available for specially for a small number of languages, and may not be regularly calculated.

English Wikipedia

• en:Special:Statistics
• en:Wikipedia:Popular pages
• en:Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia
• en:Wikipedia:Modelling Wikipedia's growth
• en:Wikipedia:Awareness statistics
• en:Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits

• Old statistics
  • en:Wikipedia:Traffic
  • en:Wikipedia:List of articles frequently visited through Google
  • en:Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by most recent edit
  • Image of articles per day, April 2003 (Scaled)
  • en:Wikipedia:Multilingual statistics

Japanese Wikipedia

• ja:Wikipedia:日本語版の統計
• ja:Wikipedia:日本語版の動向

German Wikipedia

• Comparison of Wikipedia with other encyclopedias
• de:Wikipedia:Beitragszahlen
• de:Wikipedia:Alternative Benutzerstatistik

Ukrainian Wikipedia

• uk:Вікіпедія:Віківісник A Bulletin with a monthly statistics

Wiktionaries

• de: Statistik
• en: Statistics
• es: Estadísticas
• fi: Tilastot
• fr: Statistiques
• id: Statistik
• is: Tölfræði
• ko: 언어에 따른 통계
• lb: Sproochen Index
• pl: Statystyka
• ss: Statistics
• sv: Statistik
• vi: Thống kê

Outdated or discontinued

• THEwikiStics top lists: analysis of site traffic during August 2009
• comScore data on Wikimedia: analysis of data donated by a third-party measurement services. Covers January 2010 and some earlier months
• A February 2006 Hitwise traffic ranking and demographic breakdown for Wikipedia visitors. From Hitwise's pool of 10 million US visitors; a somewhat-random cross-section of IP traffic)
• Wikistatistics.net page on Wikimedia – automatically daily refreshed article count, edit count etc. graphs of all Wikimedia sites (since 04-07)
• https://searchdata.wmflabs.org/: Metrics used by the WMF's Discovery department as performance indicators
• Multimedia health metrics, now decomissioned, were tracked at http://multimedia-metrics.wmflabs.org/datasources, then at https://edit-analysis.wmflabs.org/multimedia-health. For now, the raw data is available but the dashboards are no longer used.
• https://edit-analysis.wmflabs.org/compare/ Metrics about how people are using the various editing tools available on Wikimedia projects. Mainly used by the WMF's VisualEditor team.
• Editor engagement dashboard https://edit-analysis.wmflabs.org/editor-engagement/
• One-time topical reports on users in general
  • http://datavis.wmflabs.org/agents/

See also

• Statistics projects
  • WikiXRay (research project to obtain language-specific quantitative results about Wikipedia, currently developed at the Libresoft Group, at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)
  • Edits by project and country of origin
  • Wikimedia in figures - Wikipedia
  • Research:Resources