NationMaster

Announcing TheFullWiki

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:10:13 +0000

From the makers of NationMaster comes a new project aimed at harnessing the wealth of content of wikis.

It's called the The Full Wiki. Its goal is to become a platform for an enriched user experience for wikis using open licenses.

We have seen many fantastic projects come and go under the weight of traffic spikes, large datasets and the need to stay fresh. We want to provide serious hosting resources to make these projects feasible.

If you have a wiki oriented project you'd like us to host or provide other help, check out The Full Wiki.

Feature update

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:01:23 +0000

We've been working away for the past month and are pleased to announce a raft of new little features:

Refined moderation of user comments. Your valued contributions will appear on the site quicker.
Top rankings pages now show the top 5 most popular stats for each variable, rather than the top 1.
We've put a search box at the bottom of each page, so it's convenient to find new things out of our vast collection.
The encyclopedia home page has been cleaned up, showing categories and themes.
Best of all: you can now sort by amount and alphabetical order on graph pages with instant feedback. No need to wait for the page to reload

We hope these modifications improve your experience. Feel free to drop us a line with any thoughts of your own.

CIA update and time series data

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:12:16 +0000

We have just updated our CIA World Factbook stats, making use of the December 18 version.

But at NationMaster, we don't just use the latest Factbook, but all the other ones going back to 2003. So you can compare time series information with ease, for example, graph the growth of the Chinese internet users.

December update

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:45:33 +0000

Today I'm pleased announce a sizable update!

This time it's a mix of updates and entirely new stats. We now have population figures updated for 2008.

We have a raft of updated media stats: we have radios, TV's, newspapers. Did you know that Chinese newspapers have a circulation of 76 million? Or that Amenia has a cinema seat for every 20 people?

And new to NationMaster, books broken down by genre. See who's producing the most titles in areas such as religion, literature, arts and science.

Our tourism stats are getting comprehensive too. We can now tell you the destinations favoured by Africans, Southern Asians or Europeans.

Keep checking back. We have a lot more in the works over the next month.

Hiring: Full time web developer

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:41:06 +0000

Due to ongoing growth, we are now hiring for full time web developers. If you'd like to work on NationMaster and other free research sites, we would love to hear from you.