User:Stephane Lo Presti/News/2024-01-05
Thank you for another year of Wiki Editing – January 5, 2024[edit]
Hi Editors,
Before I officially welcome 2024 to the Wiki, I hope you all had a rejuvenating Holiday 2023. 2023 was full of excitement and challenges, and I wanted to thank you on behalf of the ArenaNet Studio for being an important part of it!
Now let's take a quick look back at the Wiki in numbers in 2023:
- 15,139 pages created, including 5,221 articles
- 156,465 edits
- 8,118 images uploaded
- In average 330 editors (between 222 and 690)
- Due to Google Analytics changes in 2023, I'm unable to get a clear picture of the entire year, but for the second half here are the top 20 pages (the Event Timer article appears 3 times in the top 100):
- https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Event_timers
- https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/index.php
- https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Main_Page
- https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/
- https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pact_Supply_Network_Agent
- https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Legendary_weapon
- https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Legendary_armor
- https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Event-Timer
- https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_2:_Secrets_of_the_Obscure
- https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/A_New_Friend
- https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Obsidian_armor
- https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/World_boss
- https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Relic
- https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Conflux
- https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gift_of_Fortune
- https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Aurora
- https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Stat_changing
- https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Skyscale
- https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Profession
- https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Clover
- Also honorable mentions to a few popular pages down in the list:
- The Special Award for article that is Most Viewed by User goes to: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lord_Joshua
- The Special Award for article that is Spent Most Time on Page goes to: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/HOPE_IV:_The_Catalyst
- In average, players spent 5.4 sessions of 1 minute 35 seconds (for a total of 13 minutes 54 seconds)
- And this is a Wiki Lifetime Achievement Award: the 100,000th article was created at the beginning of April 2023!
- The Wiki contains 14,774,556 words of content, which is equivalent to 164 books. That's probably an entire library section!
Looking forward, you know we're working on the next two SotO updates, and another expansion for this year. For the Wiki infrastructure, we're trying to roll out the MediaWiki 1.39 update (we started months ago and it's taking longer due to technical challenges), with a minor update to Semantic MediaWiki. After that, we'll focus on the next Long-Term Support (LTS) version of the software, which should be 1.43 in the first half of next year (2025). We will stop releasing non-LTS versions of MediaWiki, unless they provide important value to the Wiki community. We had a request from the French Wiki admin to see if we could deploy the WISIWYG MediaWiki editor and we'll try to find time to test it this year.
Last but not least, please enjoy this little card:
Happy editing this year and see you in Tyria!