About four month ago, I blogged about Wikipedia pages vs. Wikidata items using images. In that post, I predicted that Wikidata would pass German Wikipedia in about four months’ time, so about the end of this month. Using the same metrics, it turns out that it’s a close run:
Site | 2014-11 | 2015-03 | Difference | Per day |
---|---|---|---|---|
enwiki | 1,726,772 | |||
enwiki (Commons only) | 1,257,691 | |||
dewiki | 709,736 | 729,577 | 19,841 | 182 |
wikidata | 604,925 | 720,360 | 115,435 | 1,059 |
frwiki | 602,664 | 623,400 | 20,736 | 190 |
ruwiki | 491,916 | 509,436 | 17,520 | 161 |
itwiki | 451,499 | 462,879 | 11,380 | 104 |
eswiki | 414,308 | 425,399 | 11,091 | 102 |
jawiki | 278,359 | 284,607 | 6,248 | 57 |
So, images in Wikidata items “grow” at about 1,000 per day, or ~900 faster than German Wikipedia. The difference has shrunk to ~9,000 pages/items. As there are 10 days to go for my prediction, it looks like I’m spot on…
Now, assuming a similar rate for enwiki, Wikidata should pass the Commons usage on en.wp in about two years.