Wikipedia talk:Statistics
Wikipedia talk:Statistics
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Meaning of Graph
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?
discrepancy between page and source
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.
Special Statistics page parentheses
I think the links on Wikipedia's Special Statistics page should not link the parentheses along. Not only would it make more sense that way, but it would also prevent MOS:SOB. Maxeto0910 (talk) 02:53, 8 April 2026 (UTC)
- What do you mean by "link the parentheses along"? —Antonissimo (talk) 04:20, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
- The parentheses are piped along in the "list of members" links, causing a sea of blue. Maxeto0910 (talk) 01:21, 10 April 2026 (UTC)
- That's not what I see. Anyway, it's not an article. —Antonissimo (talk) 05:47, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
- What do you mean by "not what I see"? You don't see the parentheses linked along? Like, for example, the text "Bots (list of members)", which is all one blue pipe despite being two links?
Yes, it's not an article in namespace. Yet, it would still be an improvement to adress the blue sea to make it clear that these are not one but two links each. Maxeto0910 (talk) 13:58, 11 April 2026 (UTC)- Whups, I did not look close enough. But "Bots" is clearly separate from "(list of members)": hovering underlines one at a time, not both together. —Antonissimo (talk) 03:29, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
- Sure, you can hover over the link on PCs to see where it links, and you can hold the text on mobile devices to see where it links. Separating the links by not linking the parentheses along would be a nicer, more practical and straightforward solution though. Maxeto0910 (talk) 14:41, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
- yes, okay —Antonissimo (talk) 23:50, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
- Sure, you can hover over the link on PCs to see where it links, and you can hold the text on mobile devices to see where it links. Separating the links by not linking the parentheses along would be a nicer, more practical and straightforward solution though. Maxeto0910 (talk) 14:41, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
- Whups, I did not look close enough. But "Bots" is clearly separate from "(list of members)": hovering underlines one at a time, not both together. —Antonissimo (talk) 03:29, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
- What do you mean by "not what I see"? You don't see the parentheses linked along? Like, for example, the text "Bots (list of members)", which is all one blue pipe despite being two links?
- That's not what I see. Anyway, it's not an article. —Antonissimo (talk) 05:47, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
- The parentheses are piped along in the "list of members" links, causing a sea of blue. Maxeto0910 (talk) 01:21, 10 April 2026 (UTC)
Yearly total number of references
Hey, wouldn't it be nice to see the yearly total number of references in all Wikipedia articles? In order to get an impression that Wikipedia has become more reliable. WikiPate (talk) 15:43, 19 April 2026 (UTC)
- Well, more WP:CITED, anyway. I believe this work has been done, e.g., in https://arxiv.org/html/2404.09764v1 but if you want the total number, then you might ask the Wikipedia:Request a query folks whether that's something they can count. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:03, 19 April 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you for your reply. Would be "yearly number of good / very good articles" easier to create? WikiPate (talk) 22:41, 19 April 2026 (UTC)
- Are you looking for Wikipedia:Good article statistics? WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:00, 19 April 2026 (UTC)
- Yes exactly 👍 WikiPate (talk) 07:52, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
- I've no objection. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:43, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
- Yes exactly 👍 WikiPate (talk) 07:52, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
- Are you looking for Wikipedia:Good article statistics? WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:00, 19 April 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you for your reply. Would be "yearly number of good / very good articles" easier to create? WikiPate (talk) 22:41, 19 April 2026 (UTC)
delayed reaction
- The most viewed articles of a year reflect current events.
This sentence immediately follows a table showing that Ted Bundy, Freddie Mercury, Jeffrey Dahmer and Ed Gein hit the yearly top five 27–31 years after their deaths. How did that happen? —Antonissimo (talk) 02:36, 21 May 2026 (UTC)
- In the table are also articles of that respective year regarding deaths, sports events, political persons, movies and so on.
- The sentence does not say that all of the most viewed articles of that year reflect current events.
- Still that sentence could be changed for example to:
- Several of the most viewed articles of a year reflect current events
- WikiPate (talk) 10:18, 21 May 2026 (UTC)
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