Wikipedia talk:Multilingual statistics

message: Someone wrote: The high growth rate in Japan is due in part to the explosion of internet access in that country. AFAIK Japan has long since been near the top of internet penetration rankings. Do you mean explosion in broadband access (i.e. >= 512kbit/s unmetered home connections)? When? Could you give a URL please? 
Or do you mean China (PRC) - that would make much more sense to me? If PRC is the subject, then really we should expect zh.wikipedia to eventually get close to the en. version. Hindi/urdu is one of the world's biggest languages too, but i still haven't installed indix (or whatever it's called, i even forgot that, but i did download it...) so i can't read devanagari properly... :( Boud 22:24, 26 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: japan internet growth???

message: I downloaded the stats for 1 November yesterday, and I have been formatting them off-line.  They will be uploaded when I get home from work tonight - so please don't worry:-) David Cannon 00:37, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Done (24 hours ago, actually, but forgot to announce it here). David Cannon 12:46, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  November 1st stats 

message: Every language is listed here with their English name (plus the code inside parantheses) expect Persian. For the Persian language is the local name "Farsi" used instead of its English name: Persian. For example German is listed under German not Deutsch, and Finnish is listed under Finnish and not Suomi.
Please correct this anomaly. Thanks.
--Mani1 16:51, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: wrong naming

message: What is going on with these divisions?
*1k 5k 10k 20k 50k 100k 200k 300k 400k 500k
The pattern is irregular and doesnt make logical sense.  We should switch it to a roughly logarithmic scale (with decimal adjustment) to
*1k 2k 5k 10k 20k 50k 100k 200k 500k
It would make more logical sense and I suspect we would see a more fair distribution (Ie english wiki wouldnt be three steps ahead of german). 15:41, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, and besides that, I think the past milestones should be kept. For instance, we would still be able to see when English reached the 100k milestone Gaspa 12:45, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is the system we now have.  Keeping past milestones would make the table extremely long - if you are interested in past milestones, they are listed on meta. Warofdreams talk 13:16, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Milestone" divisions irregular 

message: I wonder, why the Ossetic is not in the list of languages? The http://os.wikipedia.org appeared on the last day of February...
* I have to update the list - when I have time.  I'll get around to it ASAP. David Cannon 00:14, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ossetic 

message: Please add Friulian wiki (fur) to the ranking section; thanks--Klenje 23:01, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Friulian in the ranking section 

message: Does anyone know why the wiki's statistics pages have not been updated since 16th of May? It was a very useful tool, showing a much more true compare of national wiki's and giving a substantial info about the project. Is that possible to gather these data from databases and put them there?
Thanks a lot.
Aegis Maelstrom 08:25, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Aegis, wikistats were updated after every database dump, which was every week for a long time, then once a month. In May the database scheme changed again and this time more drastically  than ever. Thus wikistats could not be run. Only recently dumps in the new xml format have become available, so I can work on upgrading the stats script yet again. Only this time I have some other things higher on my priority list, like two presentations for wikimania and EasyTimeline updates, which were long overdue. So you'll have to have some patience for yet another one or two months. Cheers, Erik Zachte 11:46, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not Aegis M, but I too was worried for a while, and had been meaning to ask this...  but thank you for the effort and the answer.  Almafeta 22:10, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [http://www.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/Sitemap.htm Wikipedia statistics pages] 

message: Please check if the Italian Wikipedia really reached 100.000 the last days. Seems a bit a sudden jump by 30.000 from the beginning of September.
:It's real.  They employed a bot that generated 40,000 articles in 12 days.  Some would say they cheated, but then we did too.  I wasn't around when Rambot had his foot on the gas pedal, but people like Angela, André Engels, and Anthere will remember when he took Wikipedia by storm. David Cannon 22:28, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Italian Wikipedia Article Count 

message: The official statisitics are currently NOT computed, (or were forgotten on display), for German (Deutsch).
Where are they? Whomaintains the statistics script that generate the statisitics form?
:I don't understand. I see German in every table on this page. - dcljr (talk) 20:49, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  German missing in official statistics 

message: The last dates I tried to update the milestones several times since Turkish, Arabian, Italian and Polish among others have taken new milestones. If I go to edit, all changes are already ready-made and just needed to be saved. When I save them, I get an updated milestone-table as individual page. However: whenever I enter the complete statistics page where milestones is only one section among many, I always get the old table without changes.
:Which table or page are you trying to update? The first three tables on this page are updated only every month (or are supposed to be) and shouldn't need updating right now; the last table is already up to date. Maybe you just need to clear your browser's cached version of this page. Try hitting Reload while pressing Shift. That works on some browsers. - dcljr (talk) 00:24, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seems impossible to update Milesstone on statistics page 

message: I think this is all meta material, since it shows the statistics concerning all WM projects. --Dungo (talk) 13:06, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Some of the other Wikipedia projects have their own version of these statistics.  If Meta was used more often, I would not object to putting it there.  But this page has been on Wiki for over 4 years now (since long before I had anything to do with it), and I think it really does belong here. David Cannon 13:46, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  To meta 

message: I've added the Waray-Waray wikipedia to the table since for some reason it's not there. (It was started on September 25, 2005) --69.228.46.21 21:31, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Waray-Waray Wikipedia stats 

message: For reasons I don't exactly understand, the Statistics page of the Afar encyclopedia has claimed there are 6 articles for months now.  But if you will look into it, you will see that the correct number should be "0" -- nor have there been any articles for months, either.  Nor are there likely to be, any time soon, considering this is not a literary language, and those who do speak it are taking their herds to the watering holes right about now, not plugged into computers!  The incorrect reading of 6 is skewing all the other statistics.  I'm not sure why it always says 6 because "Numberofpages" correctly produces "0" on the front page; and it might be explained by someone tinkering with the Mediawiki message for the statistics page, but that doesn't seem to be the case either...  What gives?? Codex Sinaiticus 21:33, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's okay now.  There really are 6 articles.  The counter on the main page was broken; I've fixed it now.  I was using a counter on my user page, which has always functioned; I never looked at the main page and didn't realize that it wasn't formatted.  Thanks for letting me know. David Cannon 22:59, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Um... if there are 6 articles, where are they?? I'd really like to see them...  All I can see from http://aa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Allpages is 3 listings: the Main page, and a couple empty pages... So that's what I mean by the counter is broken... Codex Sinaiticus 23:06, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Afar stats 

message: Just that!
:I've seen it too. Taiwanese is listed under "Minnan" instead. I corrected it by hand, but the bot or program that generates the page should be fixed, too. -- Mkill 22:34, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latvian is mislabeled as Taiwanese in Nov. 2005 stats 

message: (Excludes Simple English Wikipedia)
It would be interesting to see a list of the pages that exist in the most languages.  Probably a list of the English pages with the most interwiki links would do, as it is hard to imagine that there are many pages that exist in most of the languages except for English.  Has anyone put together such a list?  --67.32.150.213 22:08, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pages found in most languages 

message: Today is 17th May already. Why still don't have the statistics on 1st May? -- Kevinhksouth 03:45, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: sigh I think I'll start taking snapshots of m:List of Wikipedias at midnight on the 1st and updating the ranking table (the third one down) with that, if I happen to be at the computer then. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 05:49, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Hello, I have been generating the rankings table for the last year, using the data from the other tables. Since May and June data are still missing, I have switched the data source to :meta:List_of_Wikipedias. Data for June is basically OK, while the May table needs to be interpolated and will not be accurate. Additionally, I noted that there are several languages missing from the current rankings table. Of course those will be included from now. Alfio 19:23, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Alfio, just to let you know, your work is being deeply appreciated by me. Great job! -Siva1979Talk to me 19:38, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Thanks Alfio. I think the missing languages you're referring to are the ones that were recently added to Wikipedia. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 04:58, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why no update? 

message: Shouldn't it be a good idea to display the grouth percentages (especially for "grouwth (month)" with more digits behind the comma? Now it is difficult to compare the largestst wikipedias? 
gitaarfreak from the Dutch wikipedia 
213.224.145.22 21:49, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I completely agree. At least when the growth is less than 10%, it would be good to add one digit after the decimal point; this wouldn't even be a space problem. Marcoscramer 08:50, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  growth 

message: The october update doesn't contain any of the 20 new Wikipedias that were created on September 30. These should be included. Novial, for example, already has 533 articles (though I don't know how many it had on the first of October). Marcoscramer 21:35, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for your attention to this detail.  I'll be getting around to it before the October statistics are published at the end of the month, and will backdate the previous months' entries.  David Cannon 09:33, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Wikipedias 

message: Overall, thanks for compiling these stats, they are some of the most complete, up to date, and interesting for data on language editions. I did notice though that Telugu is reported incorrectly. That edition hit 15,000 articles in September and is over 20k now. Not sure how they did that, but I suspect some well done bots have been at work, given the nature of entries the random page function brings up. - Taxman Talk 01:59, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stats 

message: We are unable to open site
wikimedi stat; this site was usefull to identify good contributors and apreciate their efforts. Any alternatives available?
Mahitgar 12:31, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See  and m:Wikimedia site feedback#Where are the STATS?. At least for now, you can still get a cached copy by searching Google for that tool. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 19:13, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  why wikimedia stat site does not open 

message: There is an important mismatch between the counts of the two first tables (December 2006 Rankings and Article count, monthly totals). Looking at the former, one can calculate (Articles total subtracted by New articles in month) that in the beginning of November there were 3014 Lombard articles, while the latter table says only 341 (11 % of the former). Is this just a difference in the date of the database dump or something else?
Another problem is that the following languages have different names in the two tables, which makes alphabetical browsing in some of the cases a bit complicated: arc (Aramaic or Assyrian Neo-Aramaic), bar (Bavarian or Austro-Bavarian), bj (Bhojpuri or Bihari), kg (Congo or Kongo), dv (Divehi or Dhevi), fo (Faroese or Faeroese), vls (West Flemish or Flemish), glk (Gilaki or Gileki), ms (Malaysian or Malay), minnan (Minnan or Taiwanese), mus (Muskogee or Muscogee), rmy (Vlax Romani or Romany), sg (Sangro or Sango), ii (Yi or Sichuan Yi), zea (Zealandic or Zeelandic). In addition, rm is listed two times in the latter table under the names Raeto-Romance and Rumansh (the article counts of the former are the same as in the first table). Lastly, the following languages exist only in the first table, not in the latter: Akan, Klingon, Lak, Tokipona (the last one seems to contain no articles, not even a main page, even though the article count says 239). Malhonen 12:50, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I handle only 2 of the 3 tables.  However, the numerical mismatch can be explained by timing: I may have updated "my" tables at one time of day, while the other table may have been updated earlier (or later) the same day.  The Lombard wikipedia is a case in point: on a single day, thousands of articles were transferred to it from the incubator, so depending on what time of day the source was checked, the figures could be quite different.  Your other query: sorry, i deal only with the monthly statistics and the new articles tables, so i cant help you with the other one. David Cannon 13:00, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table mismatches 

message: Again another Wikipedian statistical phenomenon has arrived! However, vandalisms and inactive users aside. First off for mine third compliment and perhaps the forth for this Wikipedia itself, I truly praise, commend and greatly congratulate this English Wikipedia once again for surpassing yet anoher Wiki-record of the One Hundred Millionth (or in figures: 100,000,000) mark of the total Wikipedians' Edit Counts!!! Yet this whopping number of what both users and Wikipedians have made up of this big free encyclopedia ever since July 2002AD and yet they never stop growing (as stated and based on/in the Wikipedian User Statistics)! WOW, what else can I say to express here, man!!? Thus, Congratulations and Kudos to the English Wikipedia! Keep the numbers going and keep on editing and contributing for more! Yaaahooooo!!! --onWheeZierPLot 00:40, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  100,000,000 edit counts! Yeehah! 

message: It's Malay wikipedia not Malaysian. 60.48.247.210 08:22, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Malay wikipedia not Malaysian wikipedia

message: Hi all, is there any way to find out, what articles have an equivalent in other languages. To be more specific, I am interested in the number of en.wiki articles that have a Czech equivalent. I think this would be an interesting thing to see how many articles are specific to one particular language and how many are common to many languages. Thank you --Jamlc 20:55, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of articles in different languages 

message: Any specific reason the stats are so badly out of date? Mikker (...) 17:58, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Out of date... 

message: Given that Old Belarusian (cf Old English) is not a previously existing form of Belarusian, but refers to the old wiki formerly known as be but moved to be-x-old, i would suggest finding a more appropriate name for describing the  old wiki. Feel free to point me to a discussion about this elsewhere. --SteveMtl 20:58, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe, it will be correct to name it Belarusian (taraškevica), as it is latinisation of its current Cyrillic name: Беларуская (тарашкевіца). Btw, "new" belarusian wiki didn't exist (except as in incubator) before March 26, 2007, so you need to re-make tables and charts too. --Bełamp 09:52, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old Belarusian 

message: It's not Farsi in english. It's Persian. Is this chart generated automatically or I should edit it manually? Hessam 17:49, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Where is it called Farsi in English?  I've always heard it as Farsi.  The US military calls it Farsi, as do the major interpretation and translation companies.  aremisasling (talk) 21:39, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Persian vs. Farsi 

message: This page is not more updated. The last update was on June, 1. Any reason why? Where can I read up to date statistic? Thank you.--Vicpeters 10:49, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be nice to see stats at least once every 3 or 6 months. Is this something that I can do for instance?  Or does an admin have to do it?--Rafaelgarcia 00:46, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update 

message: Hi folks, sorry for the delay. The process is automated... sort of. I copy data from List of Wikipedias to my hard disk and run a process script, which generates all the pretty tables. But this means that I have to remember to actually update the page, it doesn't work by itself. Alfio 22:03, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New update 

message: According to statistics here Urdu wikipedia reached at the number 5000 on March 15. But if we check at Urdu wikipedia the number was achieved on March 16. This discrepency should be removed. I helped Urdu wiki to reach 5000 on March 16 by starting almost 35 new articles on that day. I can remember well that date as that was my birthday too.
Khalid Mahmood  —Preceding comment was added at 20:16, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: March 16 or 15

message: Nobody update this page? I'm waiting for the april statistic, and now we're almost in may. --193.204.41.211 (talk) 13:07, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Update

message: Is there no way that this page can be automatically updated?  Unfortunately I don't know programming whatsoever, but there should be a way to automate this page, shouldn't there?  Right now it appears that we are 3-4 months behind.Erudy (talk) 16:19, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I updated the page. Sorry for the delay. In principle the script could be automated using wget etc., but I never got around implementing it and I would need access to the toolserver. If anyone wants to work on it email me and I'll send the script. Alfio (talk) 20:02, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Need for Automation

message: This page need update to 11/09, please someone what the update, forgive my English --Pablo323 (talk) 06:16, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need update 

message: This page need update Rippitippi (talk) 13:34, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need update 

message: Why it is not update?--Kaiyr (talk) 23:58, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: For the most up to date rankings, see Meta:List of Wikipedias. HenkvD (talk) 19:14, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello, this page either needs an update or to be decommissioned or better redirected. Can this be done?  FranCapoArg (talk) 15:24, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need update