Wikipedia:HighBeam/Metrics

This page is for charting some basic statistics about account distribution, usage, and effects.

Data!


For example, the first row shows results from the external links dump for February 11, 2012, counting only links of the format shown (or with "www." in front) in articles. There were links in 8462 different articles, and there were 10277 different links. Some links have been used more than once, giving a total of 11308 links in articles. The final column shows the increase in the total from the previous period.
 * Notes from the data guru

Since I'm recording facts, the new data required downloading 11 files with a total size of 15.8 GB; those files expanded to a total size of 99.2 GB. I noticed a big jump up and down in the size of the files with external links for highbeam.com (up in August 2012 and down in October 2012). My curiosity then led to making the graph shown above, but I haven't tried to find out what was responsible. Johnuniq (talk) 05:03, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Analysis

 * In the two months before the partnership began there were an average 68 references per month to HighBeam
 * In the months following the donation, there were a total of 5,700 links to HighBeam added; 487 references per month
 * That's an average increase per month of 419 references to HighBeam; and a percent change per month of 516%