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I'm afraid I don't understand one of the graphs in this article - the '% of editors who make 100 edits of those who make 5'; I think it's saying that, for example, in Jan 13, there were approximately 10 times as many editors who made 5 edits as made 100. That seems plausible, but even if I've interpreted it correctly, what does that tell us? 5 and 100 are somewhat arbitrary numbers. Are the figures available for a frequency graph of the number of editors who make 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc edits per month?

The Most linked external domains link in the links section said as of April 2011, but the source itself said as of June 2014, I have changed this in my edit but I forgot to put a summary, feel free to revert if I was wrong.

In the German language Wikipedia there are statistics of the number of articles for each country/state/continent (by category): de:Wikipedia:Statistik/Artikelanzahl nach Staat. Does that exist for the English version somewhere as well? Lupe (talk) 13:50, 8 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't able to find such a page on the English Wikipedia; the closest I could find was this, though it still isn't the same at all and gives only a very rough estimate of how much coverage a country has in the English Wikipedia. It'd be great to have such a page in the English Wikipedia well. Maxeto0910 (talk) 07:05, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In light of the upcoming shutdown of displaying IPs of unregistered users, I remembered such posts and decided to make maps of the IPv4 address space, showing from which ranges different wikipedias were mainly edited. I made about 40 maps of the largest wikipedias and uploaded the ones that seemed most interesting to me. (My algorithm for arranging squares differs from the one used in the above posts, class A ranges are in order, 16 in a row, then the next row, and so on.) The red numbers are the value of the first octet of the range, each range is laid out in a square with a side of 256 for the first octet, 16 for the second, each range A.B.C.0/24 is one pixel (so entire picture is 4096x4096), and the brightness of the pixel is calculated depending on how many of its 256 IPs made edits in this language wikipedia. Due to the IPv4 architecture, the last 1/8 of the entire address space cannot be client IPs, in their place I put the name of a certain wikipedia. See all maps in c:Category:IPv4 maps of unregistered Wikimedia editors.

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MBH (talk) 16:39, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I also made a page where you can hover your mouse over a specific area on the map and see in a tooltip what this A.B.0.0/16 range is and what organization or continent it is assigned to according to https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xhtml (the captions are in Russian for now, later I will make it possible to choose a map of different language sections and captions in English). MBH (talk) 16:47, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I also made a gif animation of IPs used for editing enwiki in 2002-2025. MBH (talk) 14:57, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's cool, thanks for your work. You could include the enwiki image in the "Users" section, which needs expansion. Regards. emijrp (talk) 17:21, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Cloud29371, I see that you were curious about the statement that "Because the top 0.1% of high-traffic articles can each get millions of page views in a year, the mean is about 100 times the median."

This is from unpublished data. On a sample set of 10,000 randomly selected articles created before 2023, the mean number of page views during 2023 was about 5,500 page views, and the median was 48 (just less than once a week). WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:43, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This page is basically a list of links, some of which are active, and some are inactive. I think we need to be more selective of what statistics are meaningful. For example, I think listing the most viewed pages of all time as well as the past week/month/year is useful. I would also like to see a list of the most viewed pages in non-article namespaces. I also like to see the number of edits a page has altogether as well as recently. If I don't get a response on this page, I would like to bring it up at one of the village pumps so that we can get more info on this especially since this talk page has a low amount of page views. Interstellarity (talk) 00:47, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think we might have to see if there's not already a Wikipedia projectspace about the most viewed pages. I am very certain there is a couple projectspace pages. If we have pages that automate this, would it make more sense to just link those pages? I believe this page was created before such automation tools. – The Grid (talk) 13:02, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Wikipedia:Popular pages (which does link back here)
• Wikipedia:Milestones for anything up to 2017

– The Grid (talk) 13:08, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@The Grid I think we need to do a better job at organizing these pages. It seems like when I try to find the most viewed and most edited pages where the pages exist, the page seems to be too cluttered to really figure that one out. I also think we need to title our statistical pages better to keep up with the changing world. For example, with the title, Popular pages, what does it really mean? Do we mean the most viewed pages of all time, or do we just want recent views? These are some of the questions I have on how we can better organize these pages. Interstellarity (talk) 21:18, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]