The Whelming

About four month ago, I blogged about Wikipedia pages vs. Wikidata items using images. In that post, I predicted that Wikidata would pass German Wikipedia in about four months’ time, so about the end of this month. Using the same metrics, it turns out that it’s a close run:

Site	2014-11	2015-03	Difference	Per day
enwiki	1,726,772
enwiki (Commons only)	1,257,691
dewiki	709,736	729,577	19,841	182
wikidata	604,925	720,360	115,435	1,059
frwiki	602,664	623,400	20,736	190
ruwiki	491,916	509,436	17,520	161
itwiki	451,499	462,879	11,380	104
eswiki	414,308	425,399	11,091	102
jawiki	278,359	284,607	6,248	57

So, images in Wikidata items “grow” at about 1,000 per day, or ~900 faster than German Wikipedia. The difference has shrunk to ~9,000 pages/items. As there are 10 days to go for my prediction, it looks like I’m spot on…

Now, assuming a similar rate for enwiki, Wikidata should pass the Commons usage on en.wp in about two years.

This was written by Magnus. Posted on Friday, March 13, 2015, at 18:38. Filed under Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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