Hey Anders For some reason that stats page you link to defaults to all agent types (ie including spiders and automated). If you just look at users/humans you see a drop from
Nov 2024 15.1 B to Nov 2025 14.7 B Nov 2016 16.9 B So yes our readership has trended down a bit despite having more and more content and the online population growing. https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects/reading/total-page-views/normal|bar|all|(agent)~user|monthly For certain topic areas like health the drop in readership is significantly more profound. James On Sat, Dec 20, 2025 at 6:41 AM Anders Wennersten <[email protected]> wrote: > > The income is from donation and others going from 185,4 to 208,6 (up > 12,5 % very healthy) 2025/2024 - 2024/2023 > > Number of accesses world wide 25 MD up 6,5% yearly nov-nov > > When i look at the different language version most are up healthy, only > enwp shows a decrease of 6,3% nov-nov, but there the number of active > editors are up 8,7% an envy for most other versions showing a small > decrease of active editors. > > Are we too focused on the tough discussions in US and miss the > world-wide successes of our movement? (and personally I believe that AI, > reusing and repacking our content, and things like Grokipedia is proof > of how central and accepted we have become) > > Anders > > sources > > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/3/3f/Wikimedia_Foundation_FY_24-25_Audit_Report.pdf > > https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects > > https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/IIPZJKWW6GS6UCSNT45BB27N4PQ2Z33S/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/P6J7225X2PJ6ARYSLNHXBE3RW2VDJYEZ/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
