Hi everyone,
I am looking for the average number of Wikipedians who register on English Wikipedia per month, and make at least one edit. Is there any such information? http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/new_editors has similar information, but quite what I am looking for.
Thanks. Any pointers are appreciated! Srijan
Due to the pseudonymous nature of Wikipedia, there is no way to collect the number of Wikipedians, only the number of accounts they create and the actions of those accounts.
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On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Srijan Kumar srijankedia@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am looking for the average number of Wikipedians who register on English Wikipedia per month, and make at least one edit. Is there any such information? http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/new_editors has similar information, but quite what I am looking for.
Thanks. Any pointers are appreciated! Srijan
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Hi Srijan,
I don't know of any place you can get this information immediately. You can use couple of tables to get the information you need (more accurately).
You can use centralauth.globaluser to get the gu_id (global user id), gu_registration, and gu_home_db. You can then use enwiki.user_daily_contribs to find which one of those users have done at least one edit after registration. You don't need to look too far after the registration date for the first edit activity. If someone has opened an account and has done no edit in the first 7 days (I look at 2 days for rough estimations), you can safely assume that the account won't have edits.
If you compute this number, please update this thread so we know what the answer is. Thanks! :-)
Leila
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Srijan Kumar srijankedia@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am looking for the average number of Wikipedians who register on English Wikipedia per month, and make at least one edit. Is there any such information? http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/new_editors has similar information, but quite what I am looking for.
Thanks. Any pointers are appreciated! Srijan
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Hi! Thanks everyone for their help and suggestions. I was pointed to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:New_editor which is an extensive research on the topic and has exactly the information I was looking for! Thanks srijan
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Leila Zia leila@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Srijan,
I don't know of any place you can get this information immediately. You can use couple of tables to get the information you need (more accurately).
You can use centralauth.globaluser to get the gu_id (global user id), gu_registration, and gu_home_db. You can then use enwiki.user_daily_contribs to find which one of those users have done at least one edit after registration. You don't need to look too far after the registration date for the first edit activity. If someone has opened an account and has done no edit in the first 7 days (I look at 2 days for rough estimations), you can safely assume that the account won't have edits.
If you compute this number, please update this thread so we know what the answer is. Thanks! :-)
Leila
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Srijan Kumar srijankedia@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am looking for the average number of Wikipedians who register on English Wikipedia per month, and make at least one edit. Is there any such information? http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/new_editors has similar information, but quite what I am looking for.
Thanks. Any pointers are appreciated! Srijan
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