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Question in the title. Clearly Miscellaneous gets +1000 questions/year for being the best reference desk. —moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 02:42, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Scraped from the monthly archive indexes linked from annual table in WP:Reference_desk/Archives:
Reference Desk Questions Asked in 2019
|
Total |
Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Apr |
May |
Jun |
Jul |
Aug |
Sep |
Oct |
Nov |
Dec
|
| Humanities
|
849 |
65 |
51 |
67 |
79 |
64 |
82 |
97 |
63 |
83 |
76 |
56 |
66
|
| Science
|
750 |
61 |
71 |
66 |
54 |
67 |
69 |
69 |
67 |
49 |
64 |
66 |
47
|
| Miscellaneous
|
471 |
27 |
37 |
40 |
38 |
37 |
47 |
45 |
33 |
51 |
44 |
36 |
36
|
| Language
|
388 |
35 |
26 |
31 |
42 |
27 |
42 |
40 |
29 |
17 |
35 |
30 |
34
|
| Computing
|
358 |
29 |
23 |
19 |
40 |
32 |
30 |
30 |
33 |
34 |
26 |
37 |
25
|
| Entertainment
|
338 |
22 |
20 |
35 |
30 |
28 |
36 |
28 |
37 |
22 |
24 |
27 |
29
|
| Mathematics
|
199 |
15 |
25 |
13 |
19 |
16 |
19 |
9 |
17 |
19 |
18 |
16 |
13
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- -- ToE 06:50, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Fisher's exact test gives p=0.1024 so it is reasonable to assume that all desks have the same monthly split. Robinh (talk) 18:56, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Neat. @ToE, if that was a simple action to perform, could you do it for a year some time ago, like 2010 or 2009? I suspect that the number of questions has dropped dramatically since then. Matt Deres (talk) 02:01, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Hey @Matt Deres: How about this?
Reference Desk Questions Asked by Year
|
Total |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019
|
| Science
|
37983 |
4993 |
4783 |
4692 |
5029 |
3940 |
2943 |
2609 |
2048 |
1897 |
1757 |
1584 |
958 |
750
|
| Humanities
|
31190 |
4165 |
4043 |
3314 |
3433 |
3125 |
2839 |
2429 |
1655 |
1598 |
1322 |
1470 |
948 |
849
|
| Computing
|
26124 |
4109 |
3874 |
3736 |
3246 |
2581 |
1993 |
1589 |
1228 |
1243 |
856 |
859 |
452 |
358
|
| Miscellaneous
|
23775 |
4559 |
4446 |
2936 |
2607 |
2039 |
1606 |
1448 |
1003 |
981 |
789 |
524 |
366 |
471
|
| Language
|
16755 |
1945 |
2168 |
1920 |
2009 |
1642 |
1266 |
1330 |
1211 |
897 |
738 |
732 |
509 |
388
|
| Entertainment
|
13688 |
1658 |
1933 |
1607 |
1739 |
1365 |
1044 |
1060 |
794 |
654 |
680 |
456 |
360 |
338
|
| Mathematics
|
10381 |
1364 |
1467 |
1357 |
1452 |
1105 |
833 |
620 |
472 |
417 |
451 |
397 |
247 |
199
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- -- ToE 20:19, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Wow! Well, colour my hypothesis correct. :-) Thanks for that! Matt Deres (talk) 02:36, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- @Moonythedwarf: More directly answering your question:
Reference Desks Ranked by Number of Questions Asked
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Total |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
Average
|
| Science
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
1.08
|
| Humanities
|
2 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
2.15
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| Computing
|
3 |
4 |
4 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
3.31
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| Miscellaneous
|
4 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
5 |
4 |
4 |
5 |
5 |
3 |
3.85
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| Language
|
5 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
4 |
5 |
5 |
4 |
3 |
4 |
4.62
|
| Entertainment
|
6 |
6 |
6 |
6 |
6 |
6 |
6 |
6 |
6 |
6 |
6 |
6 |
6 |
6 |
6.00
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| Mathematics
|
7 |
7 |
7 |
7 |
7 |
7 |
7 |
7 |
7 |
7 |
7 |
7 |
7 |
7 |
7.00
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- -- ToE 20:19, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
