Chart about charts on English Wikipedia: number of uses in articles by year of the chart’s latest data (many articles use old/outdated data graphics) [OC]
Chart about charts on English Wikipedia: number of uses in articles by year of the chart’s latest data (many articles use old/outdated data graphics) [OC]
That category is the data source. My earlier post was removed so apparently linking to the data source and the page with the info on how the chart was made is not enough so I’ll provide more details here: it was made using the https://glamtools.toolforge.org/glamorous.php tool and visualized using matplotlib. If you want more details like the full matplotlib code you can go to the file page – please don’t remove it again and just comment if I need to put more info directly into this comment.
This is part of an effort to identify and update old/outdated charts in English Wikipedia, [WikiProject Data Visualization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Data_Visualization) (I updated quite a few data graphics before making this chart; edit: and there are very few editors who update charts, basically one can count them on one hand and it’s only possible systematically / at scale since I made the category two years ago).
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Made this chart after creating and populating https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Charts_by_year_of_latest_data (for over 2 years and it contains most used charts by now) as described on [the file description page](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Number_of_uses_of_charts_by_year_of_latest_chart_data_in_English_Wikipedia_articles.svg).
That category is the data source. My earlier post was removed so apparently linking to the data source and the page with the info on how the chart was made is not enough so I’ll provide more details here: it was made using the https://glamtools.toolforge.org/glamorous.php tool and visualized using matplotlib. If you want more details like the full matplotlib code you can go to the file page – please don’t remove it again and just comment if I need to put more info directly into this comment.
This is part of an effort to identify and update old/outdated charts in English Wikipedia, [WikiProject Data Visualization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Data_Visualization) (I updated quite a few data graphics before making this chart; edit: and there are very few editors who update charts, basically one can count them on one hand and it’s only possible systematically / at scale since I made the category two years ago).
[Version for German-language Wikipedia](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Verwendungen_in_deutschen_Wikipedia-Artikeln_von_Charts_nach_Jahr_ihres_neuesten_Datenpunkts.svg/1280px-Verwendungen_in_deutschen_Wikipedia-Artikeln_von_Charts_nach_Jahr_ihres_neuesten_Datenpunkts.svg.png)
Also posted it on /r/wikipedia 🙁
Not all data is available every year. It also takes time to update analyses and Wikipedia depends on volunteers
I think that distribution is actually very good