Thank you Goran.

Cheers
Yaroslav

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Goran Milovanovic <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> responding to Yaroslav Blanter's following observation on this mailing
> list:
>
> "However, when I look at the statistics of usage,
> http://wdcm.wmflabs.org/WDCM_UsageDashboard/ I see that Wikivoyage
> allegedly uses, in particular, genes, humans (quite a lot, actually), and
> scientific articles. How could this be? I am pretty sure it does not use
> any of these."
>
> Please note that The *Wikidata item usage per semantic category in each
> project type* chart that you have referred to in a later message has a
> logarithmic y-scale (there's a Note explaining this immediately below the
> title of the chart). Also, even from the chart that you were referring to
> you can see that Wikivoyage projects taken together make no use of the
> categories Gene an Scientific Article. The usage of the logarithmic y-axis
> there is a necessity, otherwise we could not offer a comparison across the
> project types (because the differences in usage statistics are huge).
>
> Here's my suggestion on how to obtain a more readable (and more precise)
> information:
>
> - go to the WDCM Usage Dashboard: http://wdcm.wmflabs.org/WDCM_
> UsageDashboard/
> - Tab: Dashboard, and then Tab: Tabs/Crosstabs
> - Enter only: _Wikivoyage in the "Search projects:" field, and select all
> semantic categories in the "Search categories:" field
> - Click "Apply Selection"
>
> What you should be able to learn from the results is that on all
> Wikivoyage projects taken together the total usage of Q5 (Human) is 26, and
> that no items from the Gene (Q7187) or Scientific Article (Q13442814)
> category are used there at all.
>
> Important reminder. The usage statistic in WDCM has the following
> semantics:
>
> - pick an item;
> - count on how many pages in a particular project is that item used;
> - sum up the counts to obtain the usage statistic for that particular item
> in the particular project.
>
> All WDCM Dashboards have a section titled "Description" which provides
> this and similarly important definitions, as well as (hopefully) simple
> descriptions of the respective dashboard's functionality.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Best,
> Goran
>
>
>
>
> Goran S. Milovanović, PhD
> Data Analyst, Software Department
> Wikimedia Deutschland
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