Aha, I just figured it out. The two pages are using very different definitions for "active editors". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics refers to anyone who has made a *single* edit in the last 30 days as an "active editor", while https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm refers to edits that have made *5 or more* edits in the past month as active. This mix of terminology is confusing. I think that the definition on Special:Statistics makes more sense for "active editors" than the >=5 definition than is commonly used in discussions on mailing lists. Can anyone suggest a better set of terminology to distinguish the >=1 "active editors" from the >=5 "active editors"?
Pine On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > Next question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics shows > that ENWP alone has had 123,512 active editors (5 or more actions) in the > last 30 days. But https://reportcard.wmflabs.org/ shows that for June > 2015 (the latest data available there), there were only 31k active editors > on ENWP and 77k active editors for all projects combined. > https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm > seems consistent with the latter, showing that for August 2015 there were > 30,789 active editors. Is there an explanation for the large difference > between the 123,512 active editors shown on > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics, and the 30,789 active > editors shown on https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm? > > Thanks, > > Pine > > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks! >> Pine >> On Sep 11, 2015 11:20 AM, "James Forrester" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On 11 September 2015 at 11:13, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Analytics, >>>> >>>> On ENWP, does the number of 26,163,773 users >>>> >>> You mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics "Registered >>> users"? Assuming yes… >>> >>>> include IPs who have made edits? >>>> >>> No. >>> >>>> Does it include editors on all Wikimedia projects >>>> >>> No. >>> >>> >>>> or just those who have registered and/or edited on ENWP? >>>> >>> Registered, regardless of having edited. >>> >>> J. >>> -- >>> James D. Forrester >>> Lead Product Manager, Editing >>> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. >>> >>> [email protected] | @jdforrester >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Analytics mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >>> >>> >
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