[OSM-talk] I big jump in new users and user activity.

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Frederik Ramm [mailto:frederik at remote.org] wrote:
>Sent: 02 June 2008 2:45 PM
>To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] I big jump in new users and user activity.
>
>Hi,
>
>> Since the heise online article of 23rd May [1] the stats charts[2] are
>> showing a big change in the user activity statistics. The jump is the
>> biggest in the history of the project and the trend appears to be
>> continuing. My predition of 100,000 registered users by the end of the
>> year will probably be reached somewhat sooner J
>
>The article in the printed "Spiegel" is more likely to be responsible.
>"Spiegel" is one of our two biggest weekly news magazines, with a
>circulation of more than 1 million. This may seem a small number
>compared to the "page impressions" we're used to deal with, but it's
>a real paper thing that people actually pay money for, it lies on
>the waiting room tables of countless GP practices and so on... it's
>as mainstream as it gets.

I'm not sure if that tallies. The jump is discernable and continuous from
the stats on the 24th (ie data for the 23rd) and the printed edition came
out on the 26th according to the wiki.

>
>As you have probably noticed, the article went public on their online
>portal some time last week, and that spike was even higher than the
>"Heise" spike in the Munin graphs.
>

We should always make the distinction between visitors to the website and
OSM database activity (edits). The first does not necessarily reflect the
other and vice versa.

Cheers

Andy


>Bye
>Frederik
>
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