The pages on meta are drafts for new metric definitions: simpler where possible, more
consistent.
By itself very important as the new analytics infrastructure will be based on it.
The pages are still rough, a work in progress, early ideas proposed by WMF researchers,
but they are on meta for a purpose:
We want definitions that work for everyone. And your insights are needed.
It just wasn’t announced yet, but I’m sure that would happen soon anyway.
For now the monthly dashboard data are mostly fed from wikistats and will suffer from same
issues as wikistats.
Long ago I made the conscious decision to manually add wiki codes one by one to a
wikistats copy of the dblist files,
instead of relying on those centrally maintained dblist files.
The reason being someone inadvertently added the code for a private wiki to one of those
lists.
This caused pieces of content for that private wiki to spill over into wikistats reports
(e.g. most edited articles per month).
And it took lots of editing and a custom script to remove the stats for that unwanted wiki
from all csv files.
Now for many years GerardM kept me informed about new wiki codes. Thanks again for that
Gerard.
He is probably too busy with other stuff these days. I know he does a lot for Wikidata.
I’ll ask him about it.
Maybe a comparison script could spot new additions in centrally maintained tables, and
report on it, I can put that on my list, but don’t hold your breath.
KISS: there is a procedure for new wikis, if a headsup for wikistats could be added there,
that might do it.
Why Wikidata is not counted, just an oversight, I will look into it.
I added Minangkabau two weeks ago, on request by Siebrand.
Reports for that wiki should arrive later this month.
Cheers,
Erik Zachte
From: analytics-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:analytics-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org]
On Behalf Of John Vandenberg
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 8:24
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Wikipedia and analytics.
Subject: Re: [Analytics] Wikidata in this table?
On Dec 13, 2013 1:56 PM, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Denny Vrandečić, 13/12/2013 03:11:
I am wondering whether Wikidata is included in
this table?
http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/active_editors
It looks like it is not, since it has >3.5k active editors but is not in
the list on the left, but I would like to be sure.
If it is not, why not? The project has been active for over a year.
Wikivoyage is not included, either. The reportcard is used by the WMF to assess trends
relating to their annual/strategic plan; introducing too many variables like new projects
can make comparability impossible, so they're probably putting a lot of thought in
this. Maybe you should bring this up in
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Refining_the_definition_of_monthly_active_editors>.
stats.wikimedia.org is more free from such considerations and has all the data, so it can
be used by anyone for their own digging. ;-)
http://stats.wikimedia.org/ is also missing many newish wikis, such as Minangkabau
Wikipedia (min), which was created in January.
--
Johm Vandenberg