Wikiside
Wikiside was a short-lived independent website, located at Wikiside.com, which provided brief statistics about Wikipedia; or specifically, the English Wikipedia (displayed in English) and the Italian Wikipedia (in Italian). Its tagline was 'the wikipedia tracker', and it headlined its page with 'current Wikipedia status', giving a description of 'good', or 'tolerable'.[1] Wikiside also displayed daily snapshots of various measurements, specifically: read speed, write speed (both in seconds), article count, new articles rate (per hour), edit rate (per hour), million articles countdown (in days, for example: -0.6 days), total number of registered users, and new users (per hour).
Wikiside also contained a brief news section (from October to December 2005), covering Wikipedia in general, and other Wikimedia Foundation sites. News briefs included the action taken by Jimbo Wales to stop anonymous users creating new articles on Wikipedia (with the roll-out being launched on just the English Wikipedia). Another story was about problems on Wikibooks, specifically the deletion of many books, due to non-compliance with the 'textbooks' only policy. The German Wikipedia also got a mention, when it "reached the 300,000 articles milestone", becoming the second Wikipedia site to reach this level.
- External links (archives)
- English Wikipedia statistics – 5 December 2005 — first known capture, from Archive.org
- English Wikipedia statistics – 4 October 2006 — last known capture, from Archive.org
- Italian Wikipedia statistics – 26 April 2006 — classed as 'buono', from Archive.org
- Wikiside News — 17 December 2005, from Archive.org
