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This sounds like it'd be a bit of work to build, and I don't think there are curated datasets to help out. I think you would need to...

1. get the count of active editors on Meta for [PERIOD OF TIME]. Easy.
2. perform a query or parse dumps to get the list of active editors from every individual Wikimedia project for the same [PERIOD OF TIME]. Hard.
3. de-duplicate that list (since many people edit multiple wikis in a given say, month, and you don't want to overcount). Pretty easy.
4. compare the resulting all-projects count with the Meta-only count. Easy.

This sounds like a lot of work to me! Again, there might be tools or resources for this that already exist, but I'm not aware of them.

It seems like having topline/platform-level counts for active editors could be useful, as a dashboard or a public dataset. You might try requesting this as a feature for WikiStats. The worst they can say is "no", or "not yet" :)

- J


On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 12:34 PM RhinosF1 - <rhinosf1@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

I’ve just seen the replies and thanks to everyone whose replied.

I was looking to try and work out what percent lf the active wikimedia
community are participating on meta and comparing to another wiki farm. Any
thoughts on that?

RhinosF1

On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 20:31, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker@gmail.com>
wrote:

> It doesn't look like Active Editors works for all wikis.  I think you'd
> have to merge activity across all wikis to get a stat like that. I'm not
> sure I know of a good data strategy to get that.
>
> If you were to query it with quarry, you'd need to write a query for every
> wiki and then write some code to merge the results.  Oof.
>
> If you to extract it from the XML dumps, you'd need to process each Wiki
> separately and then merge the results.  Oof.
>
> The best solution to this is to have a common table/relation across all
> Wikis and to aggregate from there.  I don't think there's any such
> cross-wiki table/relation available.
>
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 1:38 PM Jonathan Morgan <jmorgan@wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Same dashboard, but for "All wikis":
> > https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/all-projects
> >
> > That work?
> >
> > - J
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 11:32 AM RhinosF1 - <rhinosf1@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > That provides active users for meta but not globally. Anything for
> > global?
> > >
> > > RhinosF1
> > >
> > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 18:10, Jonathan Morgan <jmorgan@wikimedia.org>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > RhinosF1,
> > > >
> > > > Are you looking for information like this
> > > > <https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/meta.wikimedia.org>, or something
> > > > different?
> > > >
> > > > - J
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 8:51 AM RhinosF1 - <rhinosf1@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > Does anyone know a way to find out how many  wikimedia users are
> > active
> > > > > globally compared to active on metawiki?
> > > > >
> > > > > This mean they've made more than 5 edits in the last 30 days for
> > this.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > RhinosF1
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