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Maoist Internationalist Movement

March, 2003 Central Task Report

by PIRAO Chief, April 1, 2003

  • See also previous Web Minister reports
  • See also overall situation of prison censorship and prison struggle

    Thanks in part to the heroic struggle of the Iraqi people against imperialist invaders, March was a big breakthrough month for the web page and MIM Notes distribution. One thing different this month than in other months is that distribution of MIM Notes was made easier by the assembly of large rallies against the war on Iraq.

    Summary statistics comparing March 2002 and March 2003

    Statistic March, 2002 March, 2003 % change
    Number of different computers MIM served 22591 37500* +70.0%
    Avg. MIM pages served per day 1819 3085* +69.6%
    MIM data transferred 4.94 Gbytes 4.28 Gbytes -13.4%
    MIM Notes printed copies compared with pre-911 (%) +94.4%
    MIM prison circulation averaged over two months compared with year earlier -77.8%
    Number of Art page users Unknown 7369 N/A
    Number of different MIM web page files actively chosen from 3547 4029 +13.6%
    Amazon visitors sent from web page 189 477 +152%
    *This report excludes all art, and most robots and developer hits for 2003 but not 2002.

    Countries getting at least 300 pages from the MIM web site in March, 2003

    Country Web pages served excluding graphics
    Spain 3813
    Canada 2693
    Japan 1790
    "United Kingdom" 1565
    Australia 1091
    Germany 882
    Netherlands 853
    France 809
    Sweden 598
    Belgium 567
    Mexico 530
    Finland 387
    Brazil 359
    Italy 357

    Web traffic broken down by department: February vs. March 2003

    Department Feb. 2003 users March 2003 users % change
    Art 7117 7369 +3.5%
    MIM Notes 3862 5614 +45.4%
    Bookstore 2641 5342 +102%
    Black Panther page 3525 4303 +22.1%
    What is MIM? 3582 4089 +14.2%
    FAQ 2924 4084 +39.7%
    MIM Theory 2122 2882 +35.8%
    RAIL 1781 2350 +31.9%
    Agitation 723 2145 +197%
    Movies 1275 1482 +16.2%
    Notas Rojas 760 1127 +48.3%
    French 605 975 +61.1%
    California 736 883 +20.0%
    Contemporary controversies/countries page 689 842 +22.2%
    Chinese 566 787 +39.0%
    RAIL fliers (within RAIL page) 298 603 +102.3%
    Classic quotes 502 564 +12.4%
    Maoist Sojourner 215 223 +3.7%
    German 142 207 +45.8%
    Finnish 140 166 +18.6%
    Russian 82 94 +14.6%
    Study packs 97 103 +6.2%
    Albany 81 55 -32.1%
    Turkish 69 65 -5.8%
    New York City 34 60 +76.5%

    In this report we compare February with March. We have to remember that March has more than 10% more days than February and thus we expect our monthly totals of people visiting a web page to be higher also. If number of visitors only grew 10% over February in a department, then the department was stagnant.

    This month, both the Black Panther page and arts page each had more hits than the home page. The above table counts the languages all the same way, based on number of visitors. It reveals that Spanish is now language number two, French third and Chinese fourth for our web page.

    Of note--our review of a book on Iraq co-authored by Scott Ritter received over 1000 hits.

    Just one more note on the above--the RAIL fliers showed a great pickup in traffic. The top five are amjalax.PDF, fearnotla.PDF, buckfushlal.PDF, plunder and empirela2.PDF with 321, 202, 190, 152 and 142 hits respectively in March.