Each day Wikipedia received 400,000 edits (all languages combined) and 500 million page views. My presentation discusses my newest visualization tool which shows the global distribution for these metrics.

1. Global Distribution of
Wikipedia Edits and Reads
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Erik Zachte - Wikimania 2011

2. Animatie

3. Participation per language (2009)

4. Most views from N-America. Most edits from Europe.
Edits
Views

5. Countries by Population
Internet Penetration

7. Forrester: 2.2 billion people online in 2013

8. Equirectangular projection
Coordinates rounded to 0.5°x0.5°
At equator 55km² ~ 34 mi²
Image NASA

9. Edits

10. Distribution of Wikipedia page edits

11. Distribution of Wikipedia page edits

12. Distribution of Wikipedia page edits

13. Distribution of Wikipedia page edits

14. Reads

15. Distribution of Wikipedia page views

16. Distribution of Wikipedia page views

17. Distribution of Wikipedia page views

18. Distribution of Wikipedia page views

19. Page views from mobile devices

21. Page views from mobile devices

22. Page views from mobile devices

23. Page views from mobile devices

24. What could be next ?
● Correlation with demographics
● Animated monthly trends per country
Use World Bank API ?

25. Demo

26. Questions?