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March 11

Which reference desk gets the most questions per year?

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

-- 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

-- 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
	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
Computing	3	4	4	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	5	3.31
Miscellaneous	4	2	2	4	4	4	4	4	5	4	4	5	5	3	3.85
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
Mathematics	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7.00

-- ToE 20:19, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]