[Foundation-l] leaflets

Sat Mar 1 23:08:02 UTC 2008

>> About statistics: we don't have any statistics since Oct. 2006 :
>> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaZZ.htm . Maybe Greg  
>> Maxwell, as CRO, has more up-to-date data, but stats.wikimedia.org is  
>> currently of no help. It's quite difficult to update leaflets if we  
>> have no new data, given that stats are almost the only thing that  
>> needs to be updated; the rest of the content doesn't need much update:
>> core principles, free content, are still up-to-date and not likely to 
>> change.

A few months ago I explained on this list that a full dump for en: Wikipedia
had not been produced for over a year. Not much I could do then.
See post 'Dump process need serious fix.'
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-September/033073.html

Coincidentally today the final step of the English dump job finished and
according to the report all steps were succesfull, which is no guarantee but
promising.
By the way the whole dump process took 58 days, over 8 weeks, for English
Wikipedia alone.
Two weeks ago the one but last step in the job yielded a usable dump file.
Currently wikistats runs for all other wikis, and has a few days to go.
After that I will try to process the English dump if a suitable server (>= 4
Gb physical memory) can be supplied.

> Hmmmm.
> The data is available per language, even if not available generally.
> So I think the problem is perhaps not the Foundation not providing data,
but the tool itself. In which case, that would be a question for Erik
Zachte ?
> Ant

Project wide totals can only be presented for those months where counts for
all significant languages are known.
Without counts for English Wikipedia project wide totals are meaningless.

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By the way, you may find some useful input for leaflets on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Erik_Zachte/Wikimedia_projects_in_figure
s_-_Wikipedia
Similar but incomplete pages like this exist for all projects.  See
navigation box at bottom of page.
Data are annotated and referenced.

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Let me advertise a report I created autumn 2007 with project wide figures:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesCurrentStatusVerbose.htm
Same for other projects 

Erik Zachte