Thanks Nemo,
Those stats work on live edits in article space, hence the figures of about
3.5 million a month in the UK as opposed to the 5 million revision IDs.
The ten million interval data is calculated from the rawest of raw data,
the actual revision IDs. They started at 1 in January 2002, so it is
possible that numberofedits is partly different due to the first years
edits, but as the next million took 17 months I'm not expecting that the
first year was a million, let alone 100 million.
If {{NUMBEROFEDITS}} is just corrupt data then that's unfortunate, but if
it were for example being incremented for each edit saved or otherwise then
that would give us a count for edit conflicts, so it would be good to find
out what it actually measures.
On 25 January 2017 at 15:37, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Statistics of total (content) edit rate are also
available on WikiStats at
https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesDatabaseEdits.htm etc.
Edit and revert trends charts tend to be more useful:
https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/PlotsPngEditHistoryTop.htm
WereSpielChequers, 25/01/2017 16:10:
One area that perhaps someone on this list can
explain is the difference
between number of edits as measured by revisionID and as measured by
NUMBEROFEDITS
{{NUMBEROFEDITS}} and other magic words, just like Special:Statistics,
should be assumed to be cached and not necessarily current or correct. They
shouldn't be relied upon for any serious usage, except perhaps after a
successful run of initSiteStats.php --update .
That said, both {{NUMBEROFEDITS}} and the total number of edits in
Special:Statistics are supposed to count the number of revisions, included
deleted ones.
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/
master/includes/SiteStats.php;b843994408cd0b4d9f2676ae87225258e0497913$135
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/
master/includes/parser/Parser.php;b843994408cd0b4d9f2676ae87
225258e0497913$2775>
Nemo
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