We could use a moving 30 day window.  If we update the definition slightly to say that an active editor is an editor that has made at least 5 edits in the last 30 days (effectively what's happening now), we can generate that every day.  


On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Christian Aistleitner <christian@quelltextlich.at> wrote:
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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