Omaha Commons:Largest City Wikis

This article provides information on the 30 largest city wikis as of December 31, 2011. Twenty-seven of the city wikis use the Mediawiki software and three use the Sycamore software (Davis, Rochester, and Santa Cruz). 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 "Added" columns show articles added, images added, users added, and total edits made between November 1 and December 31, 2011^[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	Added Articles	Added Images	Added Edits	Added Users
1	2004-07-22	Karlsruhe, Germany	22,953	22,251	425,481	5,085	81	532	5,057	305
2	2004-06-24	Davis, USA	16,611	24,806	358,015	16,772	177	449	6,753	316
3	2007-02-27	Salzburg, Austria	15,044	15,841	228,946	2,654	396	699	8,690	254
4	2006-03-22	Córdoba, Spain	14,442	12,345	136,945	4,758	77	197	1,820	127
5	2006-08-28	Kassel, Germany	13,067	8,879	190,289	1,212	808	237	5,304	67
6	2005-04-18	Hamburg, Germany	12,637	497	83,727	3,565	7	2	581	101
7	2007-12-05	Jerez, Spain	12,206	25,979	127,997	346	196	817	3,542	110
8	2005-01-18	Rochester, USA	10,684	4,604	118,975	5,644	111	67	2,142	104
9	2008-11-08	Niederbayern, Germany	10,383	13,720	166,384	1,500	98	197	1,699	168
10	2006-04-03	Hamm, Germany	9,037	13,061	84,982	373	732	172	3,096	37
11	2007-09-01	Ahrweiler, Germany	8,511	5,946	57,103	441	375	260	2,193	43
12	2006-03-15	Birmingham, USA	8,491	3,437	80,614	340	93	56	1,174	5
13	2007-07-02	Malaga, Spain	8,314	9,627	74,968	4,599	7	8	72	13
14	2005-12-15	Rhine-Neckar, Germany	7,845	1,902	68,804	568	11	0	797	(6)
15	2007-05-21	Manche, France	7,832	2,326	118,594	1,732	257	73	5,370	13
16	2005-09-09	Ann Arbor, USA	7,610	912	52,802	1,279	55	4	425	20
17	2007-02-06	Omaha, USA	7,121	1,412	40,001	865	0	0	1	3
18	2007-03-30	Göttingen, Germany	6,895	3,969	42,859	909	109	65	902	38
19	2007-07-02	Granada, Spain	6,531	13,046	83,044	4,621	42	53	518	24
20	2007-07-02	Jaen, Spain	6,216	6,752	67,621	4,609	7	35	214	31
21	2007-07-02	Huelva, Spain	6,114	6,192	58,161	4,575	7	0	49	5
22	2006-04-29	Pforzheim-Enz, Germany	5,962	4,454	79,652	527	97	15	1,021	27
23	2006-02-27	Santa Cruz, USA	5,460	3,345	29,933	202	11	25	140	3
24	2007-02-13	Seville, Spain	5,232	5,377	47,714	4,628	153	106	1,615	23
25	2005-03-23	Munich, Germany	4,962	1,742	70,303	799	425	168	4,583	9
26	2007-07-02	Cádiz, Spain	4,580	4,187	38,158	4,596	134	23	453	12
27	2007-10-02	Nuremberg, Germany	4,219	3,103	92,227	1,036	98	110	1,853	32
28	2006-10-02	Bielefeld, Germany	4,201	143	15,850	346	0	0	177	108
29	2003-07-31	Dresden, Germany	3,943	1,830	39,700	392	125	134	1,528	26
30	2007-07-02	Almeria, Spain	3,732	5,268	49,443	4,601	44	36	516	28

[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 9pm Central on October 31, 2011 and 9am Central on January 1, 2012. 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 9pm Central on October 31, 2011 and 9am Central on January 1, 2012. 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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