Today, at 1.04 PM UTC, Wikidot welcomed its 500 000th registered user. We are very happy to see the growth Wikidot is experiencing — in terms of popularity, usage, features and as a business too. We see more and more interesting sites created and many vibrant communities growing, which proves our vision of creating a "wiki farm" worth its effort.
Here are some statistics showing where Wikidot is now:
- Users:
- 500,000 — there are 52 countries in the world with less citizens
- Sites:
- 166,111
- All pages:
- 4,955,444 — English Wikipedia claims to have 3,210,000 articles, Encyclopedia Britannica has 120,000 articles
- All page revisions (edits):
- 14,732,856
- Page revisions created last month:
- 614,491 — on average people edit a page every 4 seconds
- Number of times wiki pages were viewed last month:
- 28,975,797 — we know, Facebook still has more…
- People visiting wiki sites last month:
- 6,301,676 — that's comparable to the whole population of Tennessee
- Largest site:
- 2,142 members
- Monthly traffic:
- 5 TB — we would have to send 7,000 CDs filled with data
- Number of servers:
- 6 machines, 36 CPUs, 54 GB RAM, lots of disks, serving 200 web requests per second
- Alexa traffic rank:
- 3,153 — which means there are only 3,152 sites more popular than Wikidot
Thank you to all our users, contributors, advisors, investors and evangelists who believed in Wikidot! Without you Wikidot would not be the same.
Photo by James Cridland
Congratulations to everyone at Wikidot on the big milestone. The number of people signing up daily seems to have picked up recently too. Any predictions as to when the millionth user will sign up?
Wayne Eddy
Melbourne, Australia
LGAM Knowledge Base
Contact via Google+
As soon as possible :-) If the rate is constant, i.e. 750 users a day, it would take almost 2 years. But I actually hope we can keep accelerating.
Michał Frąckowiak @ Wikidot Inc.
Visit my blog at michalf.me
I'm sure it will. That's great news! Congrats and I know the success will continue.
Great news. Keep up the good work
Regards
bsarch
www.oracle-wiki.net
This is quite an achievement. Congratulations!
It appears you're basing your claim on the user number issued. I'm curious what the actual number of active users is given that some accounts have been removed due to spamming or other reasons and some users have chosen to delete their accounts.
I'm not trying to diminish this milestone - I just would like to know what the attrition rate is and how many users we've lost.
-Ed
Community Admin
Alexa 2582 in US. It looks like the growth (in visitors/traffic, not users) has been flat since the beginning of 2010 on Alexa's graphs: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikidot.com Michal mentioned that the user growth is accelerating (also, I'd like to know the answer to Ed's question)?
It's interesting to look below that on alexa and see the top sites. Sort of surprising… Angels.wikidot.com's news has not been updated in over a year. And fretsonfire's site does not even explain what frets on fire is!
Looking at the high-impact search queries, it seems that Wikidot's most valuable wikis are about video games and software.
Exponential growth looks flat early on, but it seems logical that the rate that new members are joining would be strongly related to the number of existing members. I predict 1,000,000 members before the end of 2011 and a bright future for Wikidot.
Wayne Eddy
Melbourne, Australia
LGAM Knowledge Base
Contact via Google+
great job wikidot!!!
Soto_C was the 500,000th member.
if anybody was wondering,
also, which site has 2142 members?
I thought my little website was getting pretty high - we're at 186 members at the moment.
But we have competition! :O We haven't even got 10% of that wiki's member count (Whichever wiki it is…)
~ Leiger - Wikidot Community Admin - Volunteer
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It would be really interesting to see a list of the 100 most popular sites, and how many members they have attracted. My main site has 235 members at the moment, but I have noticed a few sites with more.
Wayne Eddy
Melbourne, Australia
LGAM Knowledge Base
Contact via Google+
Good idea! We will make such a list of most popular sites (in terms of members, traffic, and edits) and publish it on the blog.
Michał Frąckowiak @ Wikidot Inc.
Visit my blog at michalf.me
Thanks for the more regular blog posts :) It's always a good thing when you're speaking out to the community, and the blog is the best place to do that as it's one of the places most Wikidot users would look first (www, blog and community)
Thanks also for the constant stream of new features. Things are slowing down slightly but they've definitely not stopped, which I'm very happy about :)
~ Leiger - Wikidot Community Admin - Volunteer
Wikidot: Official Documentation | Wikidot Discord server | NEW: Wikiroo, backup tool (in development)
Congrats with the numbers!
Maybe it's a good idea to expand the what's hot page and not publish such numbers in the blog
A - S I M P L E - P L A N by ARTiZEN a startingpoint for simple wikidot solutions.
I agree with Steven: the what's hot page seems the obvious place to put it. It will be interesting.s
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - Wikidot first line support & community admin team.
I've been keeping my eye on the Featured Sites section of the main Wikidot Page for the last couple of days to try and get an idea of which sites have the most members, and how many sites there are with a lot of members.
So far I've found about 20 sites with 200 or more contributors
I will keep an up-to-date table here until the developers add something to the What's Hot page.
I suspect the largest site that Michal refers to above must be the Demon Souls English Wiki, which seems to have way more members that any other site.
Wayne Eddy
Melbourne, Australia
LGAM Knowledge Base
Contact via Google+
When will you provide non-English UI?
What language are you looking for?
I'm pretty sure a multi-lingual GUI is an eventual goal (but don't take my word as being official, wait for the development team for that) — but I think it's more long-term.
~ Leiger - Wikidot Community Admin - Volunteer
Wikidot: Official Documentation | Wikidot Discord server | NEW: Wikiroo, backup tool (in development)
Great going guys!
wow … keep it up wikidot