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
>
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