WikiCU:About

WikiCU is an insider's guide to Columbia. The first edits by the wider Columbia community started to be made on Tuesday 6th March in the late afternoon / early evening. More info about the WikiCU project is coming soon.

Statistics

WikiCU is powered by MediaWiki software, which records several statistics. The wiki has 4,240 useful articles, or 12,043 if you count all the shorter articles, redirect pages, talk pages, and so on. The wiki also has 2,074 images and other uploaded files. So far, 1,686 users have registered, and 7 have additional administrative powers including the ability to fly. Further statistics are available at Special:Statistics.

Server logs

As of 28 March 2007, the server reported the following statistics, which may differ from the MediaWiki statistics above:

• Requests fulfilled: 414,975
• Page requests fulfilled: 192,914
• Distinct hosts served: 6,536
• Data transferred: 2.39 gigabytes
• 64% of requests are from Columbia University

Activity has surged this weekend. I'll post the statistics on Sunday night or Monday morning.

Top 10 referrers

• http://www.bwog.net/
• http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/
• http://www.google.com/
• http://www.boredatbutler.com/
• http://hs.facebook.com/
• http://messageboard.chatuniversity.com/columbia/
• http://columbia.facebook.com/
• http://mail.google.com/
• http://search.yahoo.com/

Top 5 search queries

• "wikicu", and variations like "wiki cu" and "wikicu.com" (not surprisingly these are by far the most common search queries)
• "matt sanchez", and variations like "matt sanchez rod majors"
• "riddhi dasgupta"
• "mark modesitt"
• "angry cell phone guy" and variations like "alfredo zaragoza"

Other statistics

• Database takes up 36 megabytes
• Other files take up 102 megabytes

Extensions/modifications

• Calendar
• GoogleMaps
• Cite
• Short URLs
• Timezone is America/New_York
• Interwiki links: use w:Page to link to a Wikipedia page