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Which reference desk gets the most questions per year?

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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]