Thanks Dan! I am looking forward to the the across all wikis metric! Yay!

On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 2:15 PM Dan Andreescu <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Some near to mid-term changes that might be useful for everyone chiming in:
>
> * Active Editors across all wikis is a metric we're working on, and it
> will be part of Wikistats 2 sometime this fiscal year
> * The new mediawiki history dataset will let you download data for all
> wikis and crunch these numbers and much more:
> https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/mediawiki_history/readme.html (we're
> close to publishing this but there's sample data for last August)
>
> Maybe a little showcase talk is in order once the above two are completed?
>
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 5:09 PM Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> >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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