On 4 November 2014 12:00, Aaron Halfaker ahalfaker@wikimedia.org wrote:
Understood for page creations. The metric is named "Page creations". We ought to have a metric called "Content page creations" or "Unique content page creators".
Yeah, having both would be great but I don't want to demand the world on a stick. ;-)
One bit of complication: How do you feel about the draft namespace for
enwiki? Should it be included in content page creations?
That should be in $wgContentNamespaces but unfortunately isn't (see the config file http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php). I'll get that fixed.
As for edits, the correlation is so strong between edits to content and edits to other namespaces that it doesn't matter which we use when looking for trends.[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Refining_the_definition_of_monthly_a...
Fair point.
J.