We could use the labor-hours measurement based on activity sessions[1].  But I don't think that analytics keeps that metric yet.  I've been following their history reconstruction work as that would feed directly into generating metrics like edit sessions.  It's not a perfect approximation, but it's a good, conservative one. 

1. Geiger, R. S., & Halfaker, A. (2013, February). Using edit sessions to measure participation in Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work (pp. 861-870). ACM. http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/Using_Edit_Sessions_to_Measure_Participation_in_Wikipedia/geiger13using-preprint.pdf

-Aaron

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Aaron and Shannon,

Could you clarify " Average hours of spent by editors by segment (5+ edits and 100+ edits)?" If that's referring to logged-in time, that information might be available, but keep in mind that a number of contributors do a variety of Wikimedia-related activities off-wiki, so the measure of time spent on-wiki will understate the total number of hours spent by contributors on Wikimedia-related activities.

Regarding numbers of editors, keep in mind that some humans may have more than 1 account, sometimes for legitimate purposes and sometimes for illegitimate purposes. Also, getting an accurate count of "anonymous" editors is difficult.

I don't mean to sound critical of the questions; I just want to emphasize that answers are likely to be incomplete. (:

Regards,

Pine


On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 2:43 PM, Aaron Halfaker <ahalfaker@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hey folks,

I just got the following data requests emailed to me and I figured that this list is probably best equipped to answer:

·         Number of editors who contribute 1 edit per month? 

·         Is it possible/feasible to run editor retention metrics globally (versus just based on a single project?

·         Total number of editors on all projects over the past 16 years (not just ENWP)?

·         Global distribution of editors by region (or country), 2016 (the last I saw is from 2008)?

·         Average hours of spent by editors by segment (5+ edits and 100+ edits)?

 


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