>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
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