MDN Wiki - 2014 in Review

[Ali Spivak]

Hi everyone, sending a quick recap of how the MDN wiki performed in 2014. The
big news: We had an amazing year!

The MDN wiki grew substantially in 2014, with close to a 25% increase in
overall users and 40+% increase in overall page traffic. Contribution also
saw some pretty extraordinary growth: 50% more editors and a 90% increase
in translation edits.

Much of the editor growth came through outreach to contributors and users,
in the form of improved contribution guides, priority lists of
documentation (doc and localization status pages), welcome emails, and
increased traffic driving increased contribution (and of course, more
editors means more content, which brings more users). The MDN dev team also
did a huge amount of work to stabilize and improve the wiki platform.

The effectiveness of outreach to localization communities and contributors
shows in the results. We are planning to continue that outreach and
increase support and outreach to English-language contributors in 2015. For
more about our 2015 plans, see the MDN wiki page
<https://wiki.mozilla.org/MDN/#Strategies_.26_Projects> (
https://wiki.mozilla.org/MDN/#Strategies_.26_Projects).

It was a very, very successful year, and I want to thank all of our
contributors (which include not only writers, but also the MDN dev team and
everyone else involved in the MDN) for doing an amazing job!

MDN Site Metrics for 2014

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Unique visitors: increased 24.83%
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23,128,395 in 2014 (vs. 18,528,529 in 2013)
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Sessions/visits increased 44.15%
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58,315,789 in 2014 (vs. 40,456,252 in 2013)
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Pageviews increased 42.09%
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107,261,993 (vs. 75,486,334 in 2013)
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Bounce rate decreased 7.20%
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66.83% (vs 72.02% in 2013)
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content is getting “stickier; less users see just 1 page and leave.
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Users accessing MDN on Chrome grew to 58.51% in 2014, as opposed to
50.79% in 2013.


KPI’s (Participation)

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Active Contributors:
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1+ edit: 6,013 (up 53% from 3,919 in 2013)
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5+ edits: 1,325 (up 46% from 906 in 2013)
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English Edits: 52,799 (down 12% from 59,771 in 2013)
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Translation Edits: 43,899 (up 90% from 23,074 in 2013)


Documentation Metrics

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Change in size of the backlog of documentation needs (dev-doc-needed):
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6 months stats only: increased to 1058 from 1002 (5.58% increase)
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Bugs documented (increase in dev-doc-complete):
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6 months stats only: 289 docs requests handled


Dev Metrics

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issues opened: 1019
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issues fixed: 664
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issues closed (including fixed): 1073
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1,536 commits
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52 contributors
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37 volunteers


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ali spivak
Manager, MDN Community & Content
asp...@mozilla.com