Yep, I'm also in favor of using bot-free edits on most charts and for Monthly Reportcard.

I think in most cases they can replace current stats instead of duplicating charts.

Erik

From: Diederik van Liere [mailto:dvanliere@wikimedia.org]
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 6:28 PM
To: Erik Zachte
Cc: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics.
Subject: Re: [Analytics] non-bot edits per month

Hi Erik,

Would it be possible to generate the non-bot edits as part of the Monthly Reportcard set of jobs?

best,

D

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Thanks! Those graphs are really useful. Is there any possibility that they could be added to the main stat pages for the projects, like http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryEN.htm, or even the report card pages?

It's unfortunate that such informative graphs are currently hidden away.

Ryan Kaldari

On Jul 23, 2013, at 7:41 AM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Graphs showing non-bot edits have been available for the largest
Wikipedias since earlier this month, see Erik Z.'s announcement at
http://infodisiac.com/blog/2013/07/new-edit-and-revert-stats/ .

E.g. English Wikipedia: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/EditsRevertsEN.htm


On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari@wikimedia.org> wrote:

I was poking around on stats.wikimedia.org and reportcard.wmflabs.org to see

if I could find out how overall editing levels had changed (if any) over the

past year. Unfortunately, it seems that all of our "edits per month" graphs

show all edits, including bot edits. Since changes in bot editing levels are

often dramatic from month to month, this noise effectively cancels out the

usefulness of the graphs. For example, you can see a huge spike in March

when I presume the Wikidata bots were running at full force:

http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/#secondary-graphs-tab

http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaEN.htm#3

My question is: Would it be possible to replace or augment these graphs with

graphs that exclude bot edits? I know that bot status is not stored in the

revision table, so this would be quite expensive to tally. Would it be

prohibitively expensive? Sorry if this is a dumb question.

Ryan Kaldari

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