About the Wikistats project
History
When initially created, the MetaWikimedia:List of Wikipedias by size was compiled and updated by hand. In parallel, User:RobiH developed the MetaWikimedia:List of largest wikis out of the existing Meatball:BiggestWiki, and continued updating it by hand. Soon he became fed up with his weekly session surfing through all the statistics pages to update the page counts etc. In this situation he met User:mutante who offered to write a script at least covering the MediaWikis automatically. Soon this script was deployed for all the Wikimedia Project lists on MetaWikimedia:. Today almost 20,000 Mediawikis are being updated like this at least every 24 hours.
Status
Still heavily under construction. See Wikistats/ToDo.
Goals
Our next goals will be to extend these statistics to also cover other Wiki Engines. A first corresponding task was assigned to User:MattisManzel.
How to generate automatic wiki statistics
Create database
Table structures
--> Wikistats/Table structures
Fill it initially
--> Wikistats/Wikipedia Languages
Keep it updated
script
cronjob
Every 4 hours:
crontab -l # m h dom mon dow command 00 */4 * * * /usr/local/sbin/update_all.sh
which calls (among others)
php /var/www/wikistats/update_wikis.php
Display results
In use
- Wikistats 2.2 now lives in wmflabs! All fixes and changes are applied there.
Old (original) Wikistats
List of Wikipedias, list of Wikiquotes, list of Wiktionaries, list of Wikibooks, list of Wikisources, list of Wikinews,... others in Category:Wikistats
ToDo
See Wikistats/ToDo to add request for additions or bug fixes.