At least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics calls it "active registered users", not "active editors". Still confusing of course.
BTW, this difference is also explained at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Metric_definitions#Active_editor (this page is linked in the intro of the table you were looking at, https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm ). And there's more background at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Refining_the_definition_of_monthly_active_editors and https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/08/31/improving-the-accuracy-of-the-active-editors-metric/ . On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>>> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
