Dear Lars, This is really cool! Thanks so much for sharing this with us. Is the source code available somewhere by any chance?
Best, Diederik On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote: > I hope the following is useful to someone and I welcome feedback. > > I have uploaded some raw statistics data to the Internet Archive, > counting the external links by Wikimedia project and target website > domain. For each database dump, I produced a CSV file. > > For January 2008, the websites with most links from en.wikipedia > can be found by "sort -nr enwiki-20080103-linkstats.csv": > > 1939434,en.wikipedia.org > 378267,tools.wikimedia.de > 294030,wikimediafoundation.org > 139856,creativecommons.org > 122630,imdb.com > 87257,ncbi.nlm.nih.gov > 73792,news.bbc.co.uk > 67776,iucnredlist.org > 65595,rhaworth.myby.co.uk > 63236,dx.doi.org > > I only counted links from the main (article), File, Author, Index > and Portal namespaces. I removed initial "www." from the domains, > counting www.imdb.com as imdb.com. Only counts of 10 or more are > included. > > The uploaded files are grouped by year, quarter or month: > > http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_2008 > http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_2009 > http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_Q1_2010 > http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_Q2_2010 > http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_Q3_2010 > http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_Q4_2010 > http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_201101 > http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_201102 > http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_201103 > http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_201104 > http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_201105 > http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_201106 > http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_201107 > http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_201108 > http://www.archive.org/details/Wikipedia_external_links_statistics_201109 > > Over time, the number of links to the old and new domain of > the British Museum have evolved like this: > > 20080103 256,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk 45,britishmuseum.org > 20091103 199,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk 350,britishmuseum.org > 20100116 194,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk 396,britishmuseum.org > 20100817 141,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk 950,britishmuseum.org > 20100904 141,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk 980,britishmuseum.org > 20100916 141,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk 1005,britishmuseum.org > 20101002 141,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk 1034,britishmuseum.org > 20101011 141,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk 1047,britishmuseum.org > 20110115 142,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk 1100,britishmuseum.org > 20110317 142,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk 1132,britishmuseum.org > 20110405 142,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk 1138,britishmuseum.org > 20110526 142,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk 1171,britishmuseum.org > 20110620 142,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk 1188,britishmuseum.org > 20110722 142,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk 1201,britishmuseum.org > 20110803 141,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk 1213,britishmuseum.org > 20110901 141,thebritishmuseum.ac.uk 1222,britishmuseum.org > > The fast change during Liam Wyatt's month in residence in May/June (?) > of 2010 has continued at a much slower pace. > > Some other Wikimedia projects that have links to the old > domain thebritishmuseum.ac.uk are: > > 10,cawiki > 20,commonswiki > 36,dewiki > 141,enwiki > 27,eswiki > 20,frwiki > 13,huwiki > 14,itwiki > 10,jawiki > 13,nowiki > 10,ptwiki > 19,ruwiki > 13,shwiki > 14,svwiki > 12,trwiki > > To find and update these links, use the [[Special:Linksearch]] page. > > > -- > Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) > Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
