Wikipedia has recorded 43.5 million pageviews in Indian language wikis, as of October 2011, reports Wikimedia. In comparison,Wikipedia had recorded 32.95 million pageviews in September 2011. Hindi retained its top spot with 8.9 million pageviews (8.7 million non-mobile plus 0.20 mobile), followed by Marathi which has 5.94 million pageviews (5.9 million non-mobile plus 0.04 million mobile) and Malayalam which has 5.42 million (5.4 million non-mobile plus 0.02 million mobile). Here is a breakdown of pageviews of October 2011 stats vs September 2011: Surprisingly, the table seems to indicate an increase in non-mobile pageviews and a decline in mobile pageviews across most of the wikis, which is quite opposite to what we saw in our earlier report. This however might be because of the fact that half of traffic to mobile sites were not counted from Oct 16 - Nov 29 since one of Wikimedia's two load-balanced servers didn't report traffic, as noted by the organization in its stats page. If you however observe Wikimedia's stats page generated on December 12, 2011, it gives a completely different picture of the traffic from mobile devices for the Indic language wikis. According to it, the yearly growth for all languages has been 131 percent with Hindi growing at 10804 percent, Tamil growing at 20233 percent, Marathi growing at 646 percent and so on. It also shows that Marathi has surpassed Hindi language to become the top Indic language Wiki for November 2011 by recording 7.73 million pageviews (7.6 million non-mobile plus 0.13 mobile). Hindi recorded 7 million pageviews (6.5 million…
Indic Languages
Wikipedia Indic Language Stats: 43.5 Million Pageviews In Oct 2011; 131% Mobile Growth YoY
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