Hi all,
As you maybe aware, Over the last 3 weeks, I've been looking into the
accuracy of active user statistics on English Wikipedia.
I haven't had a chance to upload the final results to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RhinosF1/activeuser but I have completed
the gathering of statistics and have attached a .pdf of the results to this
email.
I've found it interesting how there is a sudden drop in the number of
active users although I half expected this and intended to find it although
I want to look deeper.
I'd like too see whether this is down to blocks or just not continuing and
asses whether time requirements or edit requirements have bigger impact.
I look forward to any feedback and help in the research.
The plan for the next stages are as follows:
1. About 10-14 days for people getting this email to respond.
2. Run the new list of queries for about 2-3 week to gather some data to
show
3. Show the data to enwiki users and ask for feedback / help collecting
data
4. Present results in 2-3 months time.
5. Gather wide feedback on results
6. Maybe take action to improve it if we can see what action needs doing
As you will see most of the data is from around 9pm UTC so in future stages
I would appreciate data collection from a larger range of times.
Thanks in advance,
RhinosF1