>I was looking to try and work out what percent lf the active wikimedia community are participating on meta and comparing to another wiki farm. Any thoughts on that? I think it will help to give a bit of an example of why you are looking to find this information, why is it important. Participating in a wiki includes other things besides editions (translations for or software commits to features used on that one wiki, for example) so a precise comparison of one wiki ecosystem to the rest is quite a task.
On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 9:58 PM Jonathan Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > (Last reply to both lists; sorry for the spam) > > This sounds like it'd be a bit of work to build, and I don't think there > are curated datasets to help out. I think you would need to... > > 1. get the count of active editors on Meta for [PERIOD OF TIME]. Easy. > 2. perform a query or parse dumps to get the *list *of active editors > from every individual Wikimedia project for the same [PERIOD OF TIME]. Hard. > 3. de-duplicate that list (since many people edit multiple wikis in a > given say, month, and you don't want to overcount). Pretty easy. > 4. compare the resulting all-projects count with the Meta-only count. Easy. > > This sounds like a lot of work to me! Again, there might be tools or > resources for this that already exist, but I'm not aware of them. > > It seems like having topline/platform-level counts for active editors > could be useful, as a dashboard or a public dataset. You might try requesting > this as a feature > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/?title=Wikistats%20New%20Feature&projectPHIDs=Analytics-Wikistats,Analytics> > for WikiStats. The worst they can say is "no", or "not yet" :) > > - J > > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 12:34 PM RhinosF1 - <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I’ve just seen the replies and thanks to everyone whose replied. >> >> I was looking to try and work out what percent lf the active wikimedia >> community are participating on meta and comparing to another wiki farm. >> Any >> thoughts on that? >> >> RhinosF1 >> >> On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 20:31, Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > It doesn't look like Active Editors works for all wikis. I think you'd >> > have to merge activity across all wikis to get a stat like that. I'm not >> > sure I know of a good data strategy to get that. >> > >> > If you were to query it with quarry, you'd need to write a query for >> every >> > wiki and then write some code to merge the results. Oof. >> > >> > If you to extract it from the XML dumps, you'd need to process each Wiki >> > separately and then merge the results. Oof. >> > >> > The best solution to this is to have a common table/relation across all >> > Wikis and to aggregate from there. I don't think there's any such >> > cross-wiki table/relation available. >> > >> > On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 1:38 PM Jonathan Morgan <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > Same dashboard, but for "All wikis": >> > > https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/all-projects >> > > >> > > That work? >> > > >> > > - J >> > > >> > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 11:32 AM RhinosF1 - <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > > >> > > > Hi, >> > > > >> > > > That provides active users for meta but not globally. Anything for >> > > global? >> > > > >> > > > RhinosF1 >> > > > >> > > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 18:10, Jonathan Morgan <[email protected] >> > >> > > > wrote: >> > > > >> > > > > RhinosF1, >> > > > > >> > > > > Are you looking for information like this >> > > > > <https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/meta.wikimedia.org>, or >> something >> > > > > different? >> > > > > >> > > > > - J >> > > > > >> > > > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 8:51 AM RhinosF1 - <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > > > > >> > > > > > Hi, >> > > > > > >> > > > > > Does anyone know a way to find out how many wikimedia users are >> > > active >> > > > > > globally compared to active on metawiki? >> > > > > > >> > > > > > This mean they've made more than 5 edits in the last 30 days for >> > > this. >> > > > > > >> > > > > > Thanks, >> > > > > > RhinosF1 >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ >> > > > > > Analytics mailing list >> > > > > > [email protected] >> > > > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> > > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > -- >> > > > > Jonathan T. 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