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On 1 March 2018 at 14:17, Douglas Scott <douglas.i.scott(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That's strange, perhaps someone else on this
mailing list might have some
insight into this.
Regards,
Douglas.
On 1 March 2018 at 14:36, Ingo Koll <ikoll(a)gmx.de> wrote:
Hi everybody
some of you know that I look from time to time into the statistics for
African language wikipedias. Today I made a comparison which makes me doubt
the usefulness of our beautiful wikimedia statistics, at least for small
wikipedias.
I found large differences for the same months in different tables they
publish. Maybe it has to do with different data for different tables, but
then it is too well hidden for an average reader to notice (and thus not
helpful).
I wondered about large differences between May and November 2017 when
looking at
1.
https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN_Africa/Sitemap.htm Wednesday May
31, 2017 ( TABLE 1)
2.
https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/Sitemap.htm Thursday November 30,
2017 (TABLE 2)
I compared to 3.
https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN
/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm (TABLE 3)
*RESULT: for views by hour* (default in tables 1+2); in table 3 I divide
the given monthly rounded figure by 30, then by 24
*Language *
*Nov 2017 Table1*
*Nov 2017 Table 3*
*May 2017 Table 2*
*May 2017 Table 3*
arz (Egyptian Arabic)
1204
*2668*
4028
*3194*
sw (Swahili)
570
*2361*
1905
*1667*
yo (Yoruba)
468
*381*
1274
*324*
af (Afrikaans)
2560
*2361*
5640
*3056*
This looks to me highly contradictory and at least for smaller wikipedias
the figures are thus useless.
Which is a pity! I try to ask the statistics team.
Kipala-Ingo
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