Ronnie,

The reported –21.23% drop seems to be based on a comparison of the December
2021 figure (4,970,053 edits) to the January 2021 figure (6,309,228 edits):

4,970,053/6,309,228 = 78.77% (so the reduction from January 2021 to
December 2021 is 100% – 78.77% = 21.23%).

However, highlighting this figure in the English Wikipedia "Edits" box as
"64M↓ –21.23% year over year"[1] makes no sense whatsoever as far as I can
see. As you correctly observe, according to the monthly figures shown, the
number of edits actually increased by 4% or so in 2021 compared to 2020.

If Ronnie and I are missing something here, please let us know ...

Andreas

[1] https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org

On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 9:03 AM RonnieV <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Could there something be wrong with the presentation?
>
> The total number of edits at the English Wikipedia should have dropped
> 21,23% https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org
> <https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org]>
> The numbers at
> https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/contributing/edits/normal|table|2-year|~total|monthly
> do show 63.8M edits in 2021 and only 61.5M in 2020.
>
> Do I misinterpret the graph?
> ---
> Met vriendelijke groet,
>
> RonnieV
>
>
> Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga schreef op 2022-01-07 18:51:
>
> There's another option: the 2020 pandemic lockdowns made a huge peak on
> views, so year on year, 2021 has worse results.
>
> 2022(e)ko urt. 7(a) 18:41 erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du (Anders Wennersten <
> [email protected]>):
>
> When I look at statistics for mature wikipedias: en, de pl, nl they all
> show a decrease of views of 13-15% in last 12 months from a year ago,
> and number of active editors down 10- 20 % (with exception of en).
>
> Has this been analysed somewhere, are we losing our readers and
> contributors or is it mostly Google that access our info "smarter" not
> creating "views"
>
> Anders
>
> https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/de.wikipedia.org
>
> https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org
>
> https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/nl.wikipedia.org
>
> https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/pl.wikipedia.org
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