This page is for charting some basic statistics about account distribution, usage, and effects. Huge thanks to User:Johnuniq for this data and analysis.

  • The results below include all links in articles, provided they were like credoreference.com/something or www.credoreference.com/something or corp.credoreference.com/something.
All links to credoreference.com/something in articles
Date Unique articles Unique links Total links
2009-01-01 48 51 64
2009-03-01 50 53 66
2009-06-01 55 59 73
2009-09-01 56 59 73
2009-12-01 58 61 75
2010-01-01 58 61 75
2010-03-01 59 62 76
2010-06-01 71 77 93
2010-09-01 76 85 102
2010-12-01 88 100 119
2011-03-01 88 100 119
2011-06-20 129 137 163
2011-07-22 137 145 172
2011-09-01 145 152 180
2012-02-11 159 175 209
2012-03-07 158 175 209
2012-04-03 159 174 207
2012-05-02 160 174 208
2012-06-01 165 178 213
2012-07-02 166 181 215
2012-08-02 168 175 206
2012-09-02 167 174 205
2012-10-01 189 195 229
2012-11-01 214 226 260
2012-12-01 218 232 267
2013-01-02 221 235 270
2013-02-04 224 239 274
2013-03-04 222 238 273
2013-04-03 224 237 274
2013-05-03 224 236 273
2013-06-04 225 237 274
2013-07-08 225 238 274
2013-08-05 225 238 273
2013-09-04 226 238 273
2013-10-01 241 258 293
2013-11-04 248 267 302

Notes: The earliest enwiki external links dump available in August 2012 is for July 2011. I already had the June 2011 dump, but none prior to that date. The history method results were found by making an assumption and doing some tricky stuff. I listed the articles containing Credo links in August 2012, then downloaded the wikitext for old revisions of those articles, at the dates shown above; the results were obtained from counting links in those old revisions.

The table method results were found by extracting the information from dumps of the external links table at the dates shown above (same as done for the Highbeam links).

The last row shows results from the external links dump for July 2, 2012. There were links in 166 different articles, and there were 181 different links, giving a total of 215 links.

LinkSearch shows there are currently 355 *.credoreference.com links in all namespaces (and some of those links would be just credoreference.com without a "something" following, and so are not included in the above data).