That's strange, perhaps someone else on this mailing list might have some insight into this.
Regards, Douglas. On 1 March 2018 at 14:36, Ingo Koll <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everybody > some of you know that I look from time to time into the statistics for > African language wikipedias. Today I made a comparison which makes me doubt > the usefulness of our beautiful wikimedia statistics, at least for small > wikipedias. > I found large differences for the same months in different tables they > publish. Maybe it has to do with different data for different tables, but > then it is too well hidden for an average reader to notice (and thus not > helpful). > > I wondered about large differences between May and November 2017 when > looking at > > 1. https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN_Africa/Sitemap.htm Wednesday May 31, > 2017 ( TABLE 1) > 2. https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/Sitemap.htm Thursday November 30, > 2017 (TABLE 2) > > I compared to 3. https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ > TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm (TABLE 3) > *RESULT: for views by hour* (default in tables 1+2); in table 3 I divide > the given monthly rounded figure by 30, then by 24 > > *Language * > > *Nov 2017 Table1* > > *Nov 2017 Table 3* > > *May 2017 Table 2* > > *May 2017 Table 3* > > arz (Egyptian Arabic) > > 1204 > > *2668* > > 4028 > > *3194* > > sw (Swahili) > > 570 > > *2361* > > 1905 > > *1667* > > yo (Yoruba) > > 468 > > *381* > > 1274 > > *324* > > af (Afrikaans) > > 2560 > > *2361* > > 5640 > > *3056* > > This looks to me highly contradictory and at least for smaller wikipedias > the figures are thus useless. > > Which is a pity! I try to ask the statistics team. > > Kipala-Ingo > > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > > -- Douglas Ian Scott 司道格 Skype: douglas0scott South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727
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