February 2009 Archives

Sorry I missed last weeks update, but I sort of had a good excuse (my birthday was Tuesday :P).ActivityMwn3d added a few Prolog examples, and created some pages relating to Prolog and it's implementations. NevilleDNZ added some more ALGOL 68 examples, yet again :). I added a few more Modula-3 examples just a few minutes ago. ShinTakezou was also active in a handful of tasks and discussions on assorted task talk pages.There were a lot of minor edits to fix lang tags, and the old <code> tags work properly now (that is, they function the same way they do in standard HTML).New Tasks & Misc.Kevin Reid created a new task called Find Unimplemented Tasks, and provided an E example.Mwn3d created the new task Count Programming Examples which counts the number of examples a given task has.Short Circuit created a "Proggit" button to submit certain tasks to the programming subreddit.Still NeededCheck the Village Pump for the latest discussion of topics regarding Rosetta Code and what's currently going on/needing attention.

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I'll be putting together some monthly statistics from now on. I've been collecting numbers from the wiki statistics page and I've made some neat graphs. I'll also list the ten most popular tasks by views and edits. Numbers are collected daily and kept for all time. "Top ten"s are compiled at the time of the post. Views and edits per day graphs are graphs of change since the last day. If there are any other stats you'd like to see, let me know here. Ready for the math? Here it is:It is worth noting that on 1/29 the GeSHi fixes were nearly complete and the Code Tag Fixer task had started getting use. This explains the spikes in edits after that day.The spike in edits was not coupled with a spike in page views, so the views per edit stat fell sharply.Ten most popular tasks by all-time views:

1. isNumeric
2. Assigning Values to an Array
3. Change string case
4. Tokenizing A String
5. Execute a System Command
6. File I/O
7. Creating an Array
8. Bubble Sort
9. Empty Program
10. Creating an Associative Array

Ten most popular tasks by all-time edits:

1. Creating an Array
2. Apply a callback to an Array
3. IsNumeric
4. String Character Length
5. Control Structures
6. Sum of Array
7. Conditional Structures
8. Empty Program
9. User Output - text
10. User Input

So that's the state of the site's popularity. If there are other stats you'd like to see, leave a comment. I'll be back with more stats next month.