At least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics calls it "active registered users", not "active editors". Still confusing of course.
BTW, this difference is also explained at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Metric_definitions#Active_editor (this page is linked in the intro of the table you were looking at, https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm ).
And there's more background at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Refining_the_definition_of_monthly_... and https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/08/31/improving-the-accuracy-of-the-active-e... .
On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Aha, I just figured it out. The two pages are using very different definitions for "active editors". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics refers to anyone who has made a *single* edit in the last 30 days as an "active editor", while https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm refers to edits that have made *5 or more* edits in the past month as active. This mix of terminology is confusing. I think that the definition on Special:Statistics makes more sense for "active editors" than the >=5 definition than is commonly used in discussions on mailing lists. Can anyone suggest a better set of terminology to distinguish the >=1 "active editors" from the >=5 "active editors"?
Pine
On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Next question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics shows that ENWP alone has had 123,512 active editors (5 or more actions) in the last 30 days. But https://reportcard.wmflabs.org/ shows that for June 2015 (the latest data available there), there were only 31k active editors on ENWP and 77k active editors for all projects combined. https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm seems consistent with the latter, showing that for August 2015 there were 30,789 active editors. Is there an explanation for the large difference between the 123,512 active editors shown on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics, and the 30,789 active editors shown on https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm?
Thanks,
Pine
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks! Pine
On Sep 11, 2015 11:20 AM, "James Forrester" jforrester@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 11 September 2015 at 11:13, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Analytics,
On ENWP, does the number of 26,163,773 users
You mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics "Registered users"? Assuming yes…
include IPs who have made edits?
No.
Does it include editors on all Wikimedia projects
No.
or just those who have registered and/or edited on ENWP?
Registered, regardless of having edited.
J.
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