Wikistats 2 builds on the success of Wikistats, the project started more than 15 years ago by Erik Zachte. Wikistats has been the canonical source of statistics about the reach and impact of the Wikimedia movement for many years. It offered a quantitative mirror to the Wikimedia communities to reflect on their growth, gaps and strategic opportunities.
It also provided one of the earliest public data sources for the study of large-scale peer production communities, and as such has been cited nearly a thousand times in the literature.
