Omaha Commons:Largest City Wikis

This article provides information on the 30 largest city wikis as of Aug 31, 2010. Twenty-six 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 "May" columns show articles added, images added, users added, and total edits done in July and August 2010^[3]. These metrics are updated at the end of every month^[4].

Article Rank	Founded	City or Region	Total Articles	Total Images	Total Edits	Total Users	Jul-Aug Articles	Jul-Aug Images	Jul-Aug Edits	Jul-Aug Users
1	2004-07-22	Karlsruhe, Germany	21,298	16,331	363,222	4,030	243	509	8,960	77
2	2004-06-24	Davis, USA	14,813	20,957	300,448	13,354	672	1,029	17,853	1,610
3	2006-03-22	Córdoba, Spain	13,608	10,743	121,128	4,555	152	115	1,472	0
4	2005-04-18	Hamburg, Germany	12,578	440	81,189	3,311	80	0	1,256	12
5	2007-02-27	Salzburg, Austria	11,231	9,850	162,271	1,499	462	754	7,057	58
6	2006-08-28	Kassel, Germany	10,397	6,344	146,622	799	398	442	9,274	33
7	2005-01-18	Rochester, USA	9,693	3,885	103,658	4,491	198	78	2,746	249
8	2007-11-08	Niederbayern, Germany	9,363	11,062	147,604	980	238	729	4,895	39
9	2007-12-05	Jerez, Spain	8,543	18,720	91,973	88	583	1,021	4,986	4
10	2006-03-15	Birmingham, USA	7,259	2,072	64,198	297	194	113	2,326	8
11	2007-02-06	Omaha, USA	7,093	1,408	39,796	640	9	0	47	23
12	2005-12-15	Rhine-Neckar, Germany	6,847	1,765	56,308	477	132	142	1,948	12
13	2007-09-01	Ahrweiler, Germany	6,707	1,638	40,797	312	207	0	1,951	21
14	2006-04-03	Hamm, Germany	6,268	10,212	62,279	243	165	444	2,734	14
15	2005-09-09	Ann Arbor, USA	6,148	781	40,514	939	189	28	1,358	37
16	2007-05-21	Manche, France	6,102	1,055	78,720	1,477	334	73	4,058	19
17	2007-07-02	Malaga, Spain	5,734	9,312	51,555	4,550	272	147	2,196	0
18	2007-07-02	Huelva, Spain	5,652	5,554	44,097	4,549	60	72	905	0
19	2007-03-30	Göttingen, Germany	5,592	3,200	36,341	784	92	83	706	25
20	2007-07-02	Granada, Spain	5,280	12,431	65,064	4,556	187	138	1,644	0
21	2007-07-02	Jaen, Spain	5,274	6,108	52,492	4,554	151	98	1,094	0
22	2006-02-27	Santa Cruz, USA	4,562	2,347	21,746	152	405	138	2,514	16
23	2006-04-29	Pforzheim-Enz, Germany	4,514	3,706	67,090	394	41	943	4,899	6
24	2007-02-13	Seville, Spain	4,208	4,600	38,634	4,546	19	42	295	0
25	2006-10-02	Bielefeld, Germany	4,157	133	14,711	155	31	0	2,447	4
26	2005-03-23	Munich, Germany	3,907	1,254	55,272	698	73	39	1,053	14
27	2007-10-02	Nuremberg, Germany	3,636	1,751	64,245	661	73	105	1,467	24
28	2006-12-09	London, UK	3,450	3,329	28,591	216	22	56	387	7
29	2007-07-02	Almeria, Spain	3,286	4,625	36,993	4,554	71	115	1,120	0
30	2006-06-12	Warsaw, Poland	3,189	5,024	72,218	0	101	301	4,946	0

[edit] Notes

↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ The counts were made around 10am Central on July 2nd and 9pm on August 31st. 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.
↑ 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 update.

[0] 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.

[1] 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.

[2] The counts were made around 10am Central on July 2nd and 9pm on August 31st. 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.

[3] 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 update.

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