Wikipedia:Awareness statistics

Monthly count of Usenet posts containing the word "Wikipedia"

Source: Google

Data extracted from Google Groups, using the estimated figure:

 January 2001,   0
 February 2001,  0
 March 2001,     3
 April 2001,     0
 May 2001,       19
 June 2001,      54
 July 2001,      27
 August 2001,    84
 September 2001, 152
 October 2001,   87
 November 2001,  133
 December 2001,  105
 January 2002,   161
 February 2002,  102
 March 2002,     112 
 April 2002,     141
 May 2002,       149
 June 2002,      208
 July 2002,      305
 August 2002,    389
 September 2002, 304
 October 2002,   430
 November 2002,  349 
 December 2002,  523
 January 2003,   378
 Feburary 2003,  333
 March 2003,     687
 April 2003,     644
 May 2003,       693
 June 2003,      716

This is the search used: [1] (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&as_drrb=b&q=wikipedia&btnG=Google+Search&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=2003&as_maxd=31&as_maxm=1&as_maxy=2003)

It is interesting to compare this graph with the graphs in Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia and Wikipedia:Traffic.

A couple of other metrics might be useful:

Google Answers - answers per month that included Wikipedia references (search used (http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=search&q=wikipedia&qtype=answered&num=10&start=0)):

• April 2002: 1
• July 2002: 5
• August 2002: 2
• September 2002: 4
• October 2002: 11
• November 2002: 7
• December 2002: 10
• January 2003: 0
• February 2003: 1
• March 2003: 12
• April 2003: 10
• May 2003: 8
• June 2003: 10

Google PageRank of the main English Wikipedia homepage (www.wikipedia.org) :

• 22 October 2002: 6/10
• 3 November 2002: 7/10
• 1 December 2002: 8/10
• 10 January 2003: 8/10
• 15 March 2003: 7/10 (perhaps Google's algorithm has changed, unlikely that the entire internet grew faster than Wikipedia)
• 12 April 2003 : 7/10
• 30 May 2003: 7/10

Google incoming links to main Wikipedia homepage (use link:www.wikipedia.org (http://www.google.com/search?q=link%3Awww.wikipedia.org) at Google)

• 22 October 2002 : 244
• 3 November 2002 : 2060 (google only updates the statistics every few weeks)
• 13 November 2002: 2060
• 22 November 2002: 2060
• 1 December 2002: 2170
• 10 January 2003: 2060 (maybe they changed their calculation method?)
• 1 February 2003: 2340
• 4 March 2003: 2340
• 11 March 2003: 3210 (an increase of 37%)
• 1 April 2003: 3210
• 12 April 2003: 3430
• 6 May 2003: 3430
• 18 May 2003: 3430
• 29 May 2003: 2190 (a sudden and unexpected reduction...)
• 16 June 2003: 2190
• 23 June 2003: 2090 (dropped again)
• 2 July 2003: 2090

http://www.alexa.com traffic ranking to main English Wikipedia site - lower is better, 1 is theoretically the most popular site on the Internet. Use this link (http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=wikipedia&p=Det_W_g_40_M1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikipedia.org%2F) to update this table: use the "1 wk. avg" figure to eliminate the effect of the weekly cyclic variation in Wikipedia traffic.

• 22 October 2002: 9653
• 27 October 2002: 9440
• 3 November 2002: 9047
• 13 November 2002: 8356
• 22 November 2002: 7922
• 1 December 2002: 7543
• 10 January 2003: 14882 (slight slip: Alexa site shows major traffic dip around this time)
• 1 February 2003: 7897 (recovering again)
• 7 February 2003: 6799 (woo hoo!)
• 15 February 2003: 5406
• 23 Feburary 2003: 5228
• 4 March 2003: 7328
• 11 March 2003: 5713
• 13 March 2003: 4735 seems to be from boost in Google ranking
• 15 March 2003: 3662
• 17 March 2003: 3342
• 28 March 2003: 3653
• 6 April 2003: 3072
• 12 April 2003: 3444
• 16 April 2003: 3785
• 28 April 2003: 3422
• 6 May 2003: 3832
• 18 May 2003: 3212
• 22 May 2003: 2965
• 29 May 2003: 2509 (possibly driven by Earthlink E-mail newsletter publicity)
• 16 June 2003: 3289
• 23 June 2003: 3187
• 2 July 2003: 2676

Alexa reach[?] per million viewers: (reach figures can be found at the bottom of the Alexa page cited above: use the one-week average figure, please).

• 7 February 2003 : 125
• 15 February 2003 : 155
• 23 February 2003 : 125
• 15 March 2003 : 210
• 28 March 2003 : 265
• 12 April 2003 : 285
• 16 April 2003 : 270
• 6 May 2003: 360
• 18 May 2003: 300
• 29 May 2003: 330
• 16 June 2003: 330
• 2 July 2003: 420