Wikipedia Redirect Chain Cycle Count
Wikipedia redirect chain cycle counts over time
- Observations
- 3
- Tracking since
- Last updated
Median redirect chain length
Median number of redirects followed before reaching a non-redirect or detecting a cycle
| When | Median redirect chain length |
|---|---|
| 1 count |
Average redirect chain length
Mean number of redirects followed before reaching a non-redirect or detecting a cycle
| When | Average redirect chain length |
|---|---|
| 1 count |
Maximum redirect chain length
Maximum number of redirects followed before reaching a non-redirect or detecting a cycle among sampled redirects
| When | Maximum redirect chain length |
|---|---|
| 1 count |
About this data
This page tracks the median, average, and maximum cycle count of Wikipedia's redirect system. The numbers are calculated from Wikipedia's publicly available data, which is updated regularly. Understanding these metrics provides insight into how Wikipedia's redirect system changes and evolves, which is interesting because it reflects the collaborative and dynamic nature of the online encyclopedia. The complexity of this data means it is rarely published, making this page a unique resource.
Sources
Every figure on this page was read from these pages.
Why this isn't published anywhere else
While there are existing sources that track Wikipedia statistics, including redirect-related data, none of them specifically focus on the redirect chain cycle count, but the Wikipedia:Database reports page provides some related information on articles with the most redirects.
Uniqueness score 0.80 — assessed against live web search results when this subject was created.