Most often used messages in MediaWiki

This is a list of the 500 most used interface messages on wikis of the Wikimedia Foundation as measured on Tuesday 13 November 2007 from 10:43 CET to 12:56 CET. Data has been gathered out of 1 of every 50 pages served from an application server of the Wikimedia Foundation, with profiling rules designed by Tim Starling and Domas and was retrieved with this URL. In this timeframe, the 5000 most often used messages have been called on application servers 23,530,127 times. Messages which do not belong to the core messages have been filtered out. Optional messages and EXIF messages have also been filtered out.

This list should be updated two to three times every year. The next update is planned after the release of MediaWiki 1.12.

This list is very useful for translators as it optimises their effort in the early stages of translating the interface: they will have the most benefit if they translate these messages from top to bottom. At the bottom of the list are messages that are not that often used, but important for a proper look and feel for all users: create account, sign on, page history, delete page, move page, protect page, watchlist.

STATUS: 490 entries in list and active (list in SVN). Update pending (May 2008)