We could use the labor-hours measurement based on activity sessions[1]. But I don't think that analytics keeps that metric yet. I've been following their history reconstruction work as that would feed directly into generating metrics like edit sessions. It's not a perfect approximation, but it's a good, conservative one.
1. Geiger, R. S., & Halfaker, A. (2013, February). Using edit sessions to measure participation in Wikipedia. In *Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work* (pp. 861-870). ACM. http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/Using_Edit_Sessions_to_ Measure_Participation_in_Wikipedia/geiger13using-preprint.pdf -Aaron On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Aaron and Shannon, > > Could you clarify " Average hours of spent by editors by segment (5+ > edits and 100+ edits)?" If that's referring to logged-in time, that > information might be available, but keep in mind that a number of > contributors do a variety of Wikimedia-related activities off-wiki, so the > measure of time spent on-wiki will understate the total number of hours > spent by contributors on Wikimedia-related activities. > > Regarding numbers of editors, keep in mind that some humans may have more > than 1 account, sometimes for legitimate purposes and sometimes for > illegitimate purposes. Also, getting an accurate count of "anonymous" > editors is difficult. > > I don't mean to sound critical of the questions; I just want to emphasize > that answers are likely to be incomplete. (: > > Regards, > > Pine > > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 2:43 PM, Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hey folks, >> >> I just got the following data requests emailed to me and I figured that >> this list is probably best equipped to answer: >> >> · Number of editors who contribute 1 edit per month? >> >> · Is it possible/feasible to run editor retention metrics >> globally (versus just based on a single project? >> >> · Total number of editors on all projects over the past 16 years >> (not just ENWP)? >> >> · Global distribution of editors by region (or country), 2016 >> (the last I saw is from 2008 >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Enwiki-map.png>)? >> >> · Average hours of spent by editors by segment (5+ edits and >> 100+ edits)? >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > >
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