Virginia Traffic Stats

August 24, 2009

Today’s fun stat: Only about 2/3 of RichmondWiki’s visitors are from the Richmond metro area. The wiki draws a fair amount of traffic from Northern Virginia and Tidewater as well. This chart from Google Analytics shows the distribution of visits for the year to date (1/1/09 – 8/23/09): Another oddity? Fully 10% of the wiki’s [...]

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Add a Twitter Widget to Any Article

August 17, 2009

I recently added a new twitter widget extension to RichmondWiki that allows contributors to add a real-time Twitter feed to any article. It is a slightly modified version of the widget offered by MediaWikiWidgets.org. Simply copy this into the edit window on any page, replacing SMCRVA with your username: {{#widget:Twitter |user=SMCRVA |count=5 }} [[Category:Twittering]] Click [...]

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Wikipedia's 3 Millionth Article

August 17, 2009

Congratulations to Wikipedians (and users) all over the world. The milestone 3 millionth English language article was added to the online encyclopedia recently. The topic? Norwegian actress Beate Eriksen. A few other interesting statistics from Wikipedia’s list of international wikipedias: There are 13,681,782 articles in 271 languages 18,892,787 users have contributed 748,357,219 edits There are [...]

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July 2009 Site Stats

August 10, 2009

Nice job, Richmond! Traffic to the wiki is continuing to climb, despite the traditional summer slowdown in general web traffic. Visits to the site increased 7% over the previous 31 days (5/31 – 6/30) but engagement levels were down (time on site, average page views per visit, bounce rate). Here’s the breakdown: Most Popular Articles [...]

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Ars Technica Declares MS Word Death by Wiki

August 4, 2009

In a post meant to incite controversy, Ars Technica writer Jeremy Reimer declared Microsoft Word dead and declared wikis (MediaWiki, in particular) the new champion of word processing. I disagree, and I’m not the only one. I happen to like MediaWiki but even RichmondWiki’s internal stats show that only a small percentage of visitors are [...]

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