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comScore January 2010 data

stu — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:58:07 +0000

I updated the meta page on comScore data with January 2010 information. It’s been a while since I updated this analysis, mostly since Erik Zachte’s great Wikimedia Report Card covers most of the data far more elegantly.

I did include a first cut of the percentage of visitors to the largest language Wikipedias who actively edit, using Erik Zachte’s editor counts from WikiStats. A couple observations:

On the English Wikipedia only about .02% of the unique visitors actively edit. Put another way, that’s one-fifth of one-tenth of one percent. If you include all users who made at least one edit, it’s about fifteen times higher at one-third of one percent.
Participation rates vary widely by language version. Russian and German have comparatively high participation rights at around 0.03%, Japanese and Spanish are less than half that level, and English and French are in between around 0.02%.
I haven’t yet done the analysis on the other language Wikipedias comScore tracks, or of the ratio between total and active editors. I put together a summary of comScore’s trend data by project for the past few years (PDF on meta or Excel format) if anyone wants to run with it.

comScore March 2009 data

stu — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:54:47 +0000

I updated the comScore data page with March 2009 information. Other changes include setting up archives for old data. I’ll be revising this page much less frequently now as Erik Zachte’s great Wikimedia Report Card covers most of the data in a much more elegant format.

UPDATE: moved to archive page.

comScore February 2009 data

stu — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:03:47 +0000

I updated the comScore data page with February 2009 information. I also finally added tables for each of the different data sections, which should improve readability.

UPDATE: moved to archive page.

Stats on reach, Google

stu — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:17:53 +0000

At the January Wikimedia Board of Trustees meeting in San Francisco I walked through a short presentation on comScore with additional info on international reach and on the portion of our traffic which comes from Google (PDF version, PowerPoint original). Contact me if you’d like any of the underlying data.