Hi Federico, The data we have from active editors in 2015 is taken from a snapshot and uses the same filters and logic as the data for 2020. More about our definitions, as well as a link to the code we use to calculate the metrics, available here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Product/Data_glossary#Editors
Warm regards, Kate On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 11:31 PM Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Kate for the update! > > Il 30/04/21 02:08, Kate Zimmerman ha scritto: > > [...] active editors increased 18 percent, not 36 percent[3,5]. [...] > > [3] December 2020 content interactions and active editor data from > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:December_2020_Wikimedia_movement_metrics.pdf > [...] > > [5] December 2015 active editor data from an internal query across all > > Wikimedia sites, showing 79,420 active editors > > What kind of internal query? You can't compare active editor numbers > calculated with different methods. For instance, you need to have the same: > * content pages selection, > * user activity thresholds, > * global users aggregation/deduplication, > * exclusion of bots, > * seasonality corrections, > * and crucially, distance from the observed period. > > December 2020 data is less than 4 months old, so the active editor > figures for the month will keep decreasing for a while until deletion > activity is mostly done for the period. If you want to compare it to > December 2015 data, you'd need to use the same method and run it against > a snapshot of the data taken in April 2016. > > Best regards, > Federico >
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