Thanks -- that's exactly what I was looking for, Dario! :) -Jodi On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Dario Taraborelli < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Jodi > > see attached, the median of daily enwiki edits (all namespaces, including > bots and anonymous edits) in 2013 to date is 127K. (data from the > RecentChanges feed) > > > > HTH > Dario > > > On May 7, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Jodi Schneider <[email protected]> wrote: > > What's the average number of edits per day on English Wikipedia? > > This is to frame my dissertation research -- I haven't found "edits per > day" in the stats I've looked at [1][2]. > > -Jodi > > [1] http://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wikimediacounter/ > [2] http://s23.org/wikistats/wikipedias_html.php > > > > PS: There are other measures of work and importance I've collected. > > From the (highly recommended!) "edit sessions" paper, I get ~14,000 hours > per day [3]. > Alexa & Pew provide good popularity measures [4,5], and there is of course > article count (4.2 million!). > > > [3] R. Stuart Geiger and Aaron Halfaker. 2013. Using edit sessions to > measure participation in Wikipedia. DOI=10.1145/2441776.2441873 > > http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/Using_Edit_Sessions_to_Measure_Participation_in_Wikipedia/geiger13using-preprint.pdf > > Using the ballpark 425,000 hours/month (for 2012, English Wikipedia). Wow! > > [4] Alexa: wikipedia.org is the world's 6th most popular website, 58.11% > of traffic to English Wikipedia. > http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org > > [5] Pew: 53% of American Internet users look for info in Wikipedia (as of > May 2010). "The percentage of all American adults who use Wikipedia to > look for information has increased from 25% in February 2007 to 42% in May > 2010. This translates to 53% of adult internet users. " > http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Wikipedia.aspx > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > >
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