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At a rate of four hundred words a minute, four hours a day, a person could read a hundred thousand words in a day, or three million words in a month. Wikipedia is currently growing at over twenty million words a month. Or in other words, a moderately fast reader could never catch up with Wikipedia's new content. Reading the current incarnation at that rate would take nearly a decade, and by the time they were done, so much would have changed with the parts they had already read that they would have to start over. As a result, sometimes the only way to get an idea of the bigger picture is with statistics.
The available statistics cover various aspects of Wikipedia, whether as an encyclopedia, a website, or a community. Some provide current snapshots and others track growth and development over time.
Special:Statistics — a page that reports the current number of articles, which can also be seen wherever the MediaWiki feature {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} is used. Also recorded are the total number of pages overall, the number of edits and edits per page, and the number of registered users and administrators, along with links to other statistics pages.
Realtime statistics showing daily, monthly, and yearly global traffic across all Wikimedia projects.
A number of statistics have been generated by various people from database downloads, which allow them to analyze the Wikipedia database automatically using various programs and scripts. The frequency of updates varies according to when new downloads are available and how often the maintainers can produce them.
Multilingual statistics - monthly details of total article count, and analysis of the monthly rate of article growth, for each version of Wikipedia. Usually updated early in the month with statistics as at the first day of the month.
Alterego's WikiPulse gathers many statistics every hour from many places. Some of the statistics, such as the mailing list totals, most active wikipedian per hour and per day, and most edited article per hour and per day are unique. There is also an rss feed, and instructions on how to read some of the more interesting graphs. Hasn't been updating since about 21 July2005.
A whole list of accessed Wikipedia pages: http://wikimedia.org/stats/en.wikipedia.org/url_200403.html (as of 23 March2004: 38 MB) is a list of all pages accessed in March 2004 (as of 23 March2004: 684,000), in all namespaces, sorted by number of times that they have been accessed; includes pages that do not exist. URLs are taken until ampersand or question mark, if any, hence w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Allpages&from=Train falls under w/wiki.phtml, but the equivalent wiki/Special:Allpages/Train would be listed separately.
Traffic - an old system for measuring traffic. Not in use since at least April 2004.
Browsers used to access Wikipedia in February and October 2004.
Per country and per-wiki usage of all caches is perhaps the best overarching view of the varying worldwide usage of resources. Updated bi-hourly. They combine the Florida, Amsterdam, and Paris clusters for each wiki. Although a conglomeration was initially available, it proved to be too resource intensive. English Wikipedia - as of August 2005, this is not working.
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