Omaha Wiki:Largest City Wikis

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This article provides information on the 25 largest city wikis as of October 31, 2008. Twenty-one of the city wikis use the Mediawiki software, three use the Sycamore software (Davis, Rochester, and Santa Cruz), and one uses the OpenGuides software (London). Some of the methods for reporting metrics vary between Mediawiki and Sycamore and thus care should be used when comparing across the two types of wikis[1]. The columns below can be sorted by clicking on the symbol below the column heading. The "Total" columns show all activity since the wiki was founded [2] and the "Oct." columns show articles added, images added, users added, and total edits done in October 2008[3]. These metrics are updated at the end of each month[4].

Article Rank
Founded
City Wiki
Total Articles
Total Images
Total Edits
Total Users
Oct. Articles
Oct. Images
Oct. Edits
Oct. Users
1 2004-07-22 Karlsruhe, Germany 16,925 8,600 247,669 2,643 346 136 3,601 47
2 2004-06-24 Davis, USA 11,985 15,509 231,638 8,231 234 285 5,079 1,380
3 2006-08-28 Kassel, Germany 11,260 4,319 98,712 493 216 57 2,851 9
4 2005-04-18 Hamburg, Germany 10,876 344 49,245 263 7 1,178 6
5 2007-02-27 Salzburg, Austria 6,122 2,491 75,876 664 320 239 6,343 32
6 2005-12-15 Rhine-Neckar, Germany 5,923 1,326 41,867 318 70 5 2,366 8
7 2007-02-06 Omaha, USA 5,680 1,341 35,005 484 63 0 195 15
8 2006-04-02 Passau, Germany 5,510 2,252 39,272 102 147 297 3,093 9
9 2005-01-18 Rochester, USA 5,285 2,644 62,890 2,548 132 102 2,104 115
10 2006-03-15 Birmingham, USA 4,786 1,106 38,210 183 61 21 583 6
11 2006-04-03 Hamm, Germany 4,172 1,452 22,594 51 20 112 779 5
12 2006-12-05 Mankato, USA 3,888 461 12,350 91 0 0 155 1
13 2006-04-29 Pforzheim-Enz, Germany 3,681 1,775 44,402 254 21 7 682 14
14 2006-10-02 Bielefeld, Germany 3,342 126 10,218 95 3 1 18 3
15 2005-03-23 Munich, Germany 3,288 989 34,055 543 5 1 391 3
16 2006-02-27 Santa Cruz, USA 2,950 1,400 15,392 92 63 122 409 3
17 2007-09-01 Ahrweiler, Germany 2,858 1,011 16,292 118 203 87 976 5
18 2005-07-18 Bloomington, USA 2,621 1,119 21,614 2,360 35 17 315 19
19 2006-12-09 London, UK 2,610 2,183 18,850 150 50 68 498 18
20 2005-09-09 Ann Arbor, USA 2,427 367 17,401 587 40 4 269 12
21 2007-03-30 Göttingen, Germany 2,336 1,253 15,968 511 11 71 386 12
22 2006-06-12 Warsaw, Poland 2,062 2,229 27,507 80 184 1,529
23 2003-07-31 Dresden, Germany 2,053 362 12,704 66 25 9 293 2
24 2005-12-15 Brest, France 1,894 4,869 36,245 896 83 333 2,664 29
25 2006-06-03 Münster, Germany 1,749 0 21,105 1,007 33 0 145 4


[edit] Notes

  1. ↑ The Sycamore stats do not break out counts for pages outside the main article namespace (e.g., user, project, image, template, help, category namespaces in Mediawiki) so the article counts between the Mediawiki and Sycamore wikis cannot be directly compared. For the Mediawiki sites above, over half of the pages are in these supporting namespaces and are not included in the counts above. The user counts for most Sycamore wikis show only users with at least one edit while the user counts for the Mediawiki sites include users who have not made any edits. Given these differences, the numbers above tend to overstate article counts for Sycamore wikis and understate the number of users. Anyone with ideas on creating a process for reporting comparable metrics between Mediawiki and Sycamore city wikis should post a comment on the discussion page for this article.
  2. ↑ The dates of founding were based on (a) the first edit done on the Main Page (Hauptseite) for Mediawiki wikis or (b) the first edit for Sycamore wikis.
  3. ↑ The counts were made around 8pm Central time on September 30, 2008 and 8pm Central time on October 31, 2008. If the city wiki uses the Mediawiki software, the article page count is accessible by requesting the Special:Statistics?action=raw page. If the Sycamore wiki engine is used, the /User Statistics page is accessed, all text is selected and copied into an Excel file, and totals are calculated for number of articles, number of edits, and number of files. The Sycamore statistics do not include new article creation as an 'edit' (Mediawiki does), the numbers reported above as 'edits' for the sites using Sycamore is the sum of new articles created plus edits to these articles in order to provide comparable numbers.
  4. ↑ If anyone is aware of a city wiki with more articles than 1,000 articles (legitimate content pages), post a comment on the discussion page with the name and URL of the City Wiki and its statistics will be checked on the next monthly update.
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