Hello,
I have a question about the "User edits" metric presented on Wikistats,
and would be very grateful for advice regarding an issue we encountered.
We are currently computing some edit metrics for multiple Wikipedia
language versions. However, we realized there is some discrepancy
between our edit count results and the ones reported on Wikistats. It
seems that total edit counts are higher for our data, while trends for
daily edits are also different. As an example, the French Wikipedia:
Wikistats:
https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/fr.wikipedia.org/contributing/user-edits/norm…
Our results (see attachment):
We removed all users marked as bots in the database, and excluded edits
to talk pages, as it is done with the Wikistats edit count metric. I
just now found this note [1]: "The original Wikistats did not count
edits if the page they were made on was deleted. We are doing the same
thing in Wikistats 2 for now, which means you may see metric totals
shifting over time (as pages are deleted)."
Could this be what is causing this rift, or are there other processing
details which we have to consider to reproduce the Wikistats numbers as
closely as possible? On a separate note - are the daily edit counts for
all pages (including deleted articles) accessible somewhere?
thanks, thorsten
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikistats_metrics/Edits
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Thorsten Ruprechter
Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science (ISDS)
Graz University of Technology, Austria
