Someday people will want edits by the hour, broken down by country and age group ;-)
Seriously too much granularity can makes us focus on noise rather than trends.
In the report card since we changed from 1 to 3 years as default charting period, we spend
less time overanalyzing relatively small outliers.
We could determine 'normalized' daily counts by calculating for historic months
ratio (monthly 5+)/(avg daily 1+),
and scaling daily counts with this factor but it feels a bit artificial to me.
The alternative is either unscaled 1+ or 5+, and emphasize daily and monthly counts are
not related.
Same issue we have with daily vs monthly unique visitors (from comScore). We chose to
ignore daily UV's.
Erik
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From: analytics-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:analytics-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org]
On Behalf Of Christian Aistleitner
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 5:36 PM
To: analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Analytics] "Active editor" for a given day (instead of month)
Hi,
our current definiton of „active editor” [1]:
An 'active editor' is a registered (and signed in) person (not known
as a bot) who makes 5 or more edits in any month in mainspace on
countable pages.
is centered around months. That's good.
However, as we are seeing requests to produce daily graphs: How to interpret the above
definition in terms of active editors for a given /day/?
Especially: How to do it in a way that blends nicely with the current month-based
definition?
Best regards,
Christian
P.S.: I've seen code in our repos that just looks for edits of the last 30 days. That
sounds nice. But if I am doing 3 edits on 2013-07-01, and another 3 on 2013-07-31, I would
not be considered active editor by this daily approach for any day. However, I'd be an
active editor for July using [1] :-/
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Metric_definitions#Active_editor
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