Wiki stats other than the article count
Maintaining additional statistics is a distinct issue from article count, though often serves the same purpose (inter-language comparison, comparison with commercial encyclopaedia, marking milestones).
Voting doesn't really make sense on these, as they are not mutually exclusive: every single one can be produced and provided if anyone is interested. --Brion VIBBER 02:31 14 Mar 2003 (UTC)
- I agree. Consider the votes more an expression of interest in any of those options being implemented, not a vote to actually implement them. --Eloquence 21:38 14 Mar 2003 (UTC)
No additional statistics: No additional stats need to be provided.
Votes for this option:
- 1 (very good):
- 2: Eloquence
- 3: Ducker
- 4:
- 5: Eclecticology Snoyes Andre Engels Urosp pit
- 6 (very bad): Aldie Tomos Kurt Jansson Schewek, Maveric149
Total size: Total size of all articles (uncompressed) shown
Pro:
- Another measure of achievement
- May motivate some to write longer than create new stubbish article
- Might be a more fair comparison between Wikipedias with differing stub/dictionary policies
Contra:
- May motivate large datadumps rather than real article writing
Votes for this option:
- 1 (very good): Aldie Andre Engels, Maveric149
- 2: Schewek Urosp
- 3: Eclecticology ffx Ducker
- 4: Eloquence The Anome Tomos pit
- 5: Snoyes
- 6 (very bad):
Total pages in A4 paper: Total number of pages in terms of A4 paper is counted
Pro:
- Easier to compare with paper-based encyclopaedias
- Another measure of achievement
- May motivate some to write longer than create new stubbish article
Contra:
- May need language specific coefficients to convert byte size into A4 papers
- Font size and other typographical setting affects much
- A4 paper is not well known in North America
- Depends on font size / font type / page formatting / ...
Votes for this option:
- 1 (very good):
- 2:
- 3: Aldie Andre Engels
- 4: Tomos, Maveric149 pit
- 5: Snoyes Urosp
- 6 (very bad): Eloquence Eclecticology Ducker The Anome Aoineko Schewek
Total number and frequency table of words: The number of words of each article is counted. Offer total number of words and a graphical histogram.
Pro:
- more common measure for text than number of bytes
- you can also show the growth of single articles
Contra:
- Number of words depends on the language
Votes for this option:
Frequency Table ([1]) by 50 bytes: Number of article of different size-ranges (1-50, 51-100, ...951-1000, 1000-1050, ... 29950-30000, 30000+) is calculated once a week.
Yes, but rather than a table, this should be plotted as a graph! That avoids the problem of having a huge table to get up to the 30,000 size, and it allows us to present the information visually - a picture is worth a thousand words...
Pro:
- Give more in-depth understanding of each language-part of Wikipedia
- Especially useful for monitoring behaviour of small articles.
Contra:
- Not sensitive to hour-to-hour activities
- Retort: Nobody needs these statistics so frequently
- Not useful over entire range; articles up to 30,000 bytes would be in 600 ranges.
Votes for this option:
- 1 (very good): MyRedDice (as a graph)
- 2: Ducker
- 3: Eloquence Eclecticology ffx
- 4: Snoyes Andre Engels
- 5: The Anome Tomos pit
- 6 (very bad): Aldie Schewek Urosp, Maveric149
Frequency Table by 250/1000bytes: Number of article of different size-ranges (1-250, 251-500, 501-750, 751-1000, 1001-2000, ...9001-10000, 10001+) is calculated once a month.
Pro:
- Give more in-depth understanding of each language-part of Wikipedia
- A comprehensive picture behind the "article count" can be shown
- Capturing various aspects of the growth, it encourages writers to improve existing articles rather than just creating new ones.
- Better than the too-fine (1-50/51-100/...) table.
Contra:
- The general 'size'-related issues (see above).
Votes for this option:
- 1 (very good): Yann Aldie Tomos Kurt Jansson Schewek, Maveric149 pit
- 2: ffx Ducker Urosp
- 3: Eloquence Eclecticology Andre Engels
- 4: Snoyes
- 5: The Anome
- 6 (very bad):
Frequency Table by vigintiles: Shows size of articles N/20, 2N/20, ... 19N/20 where N is total number of articles.
Pro:
- I think this would give a good comparison between languages of the quality of articles in each language as opposed to just the number of articles in each language.
Contra:
- Relatively unknown method
Votes for this option:
- 1 (very good):
- 2: Eclecticology Yann ffx Schewek Urosp
- 3: Eloquence Aldie Tomos pit
- 4: Snoyes Ducker, Maveric149
- 5: The Anome Andre Engels
- 6 (very bad):