Tracking page creations, moves, and deletions - Analytics

24 Jan 2014

Hi all,

On the Growth team, we (and by we, I mean Aaron Halfaker) have been doing a
great deal of work to understand trends in new article creation,[1]
particularly from the new user perspective. Along with this and our launch
of the new Draft namespace, we've discovered that our current data sources
for tracking page creations, moves, and deletions are far too slow and
awkward to use on a daily or weekly basis.

To solve this problem and answer on-going questions about how many page
creators there are, how successful they are, and what workflows they use,
we've created three new schemas:

   - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema:PageCreation
   - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema:PageDeletion
   - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema:PageMove

We envision using similar to how we're using schemas like
Schema:ServerSideAccountCreation and Schema:PrefUpdate. We will likely be
implementing these in our team's next sprint, starting on February 5th, so
if you have feedback please speak up soon. :)

1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation

-- 
Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/