Thanks Erik for the detailed explanation.
In other words, please can the detailed explanation be summarized down to
3 to 5 sentences? Though detailed, it adds more confusion for me as the
answer to "*what a real edit is*" isn't clear for me.
Will really appreciate that.
Thank you.
rexford
On Wednesday, November 27, 2013, Erik Zachte wrote:
Isla,
Two different sets of wikistats reports use a slightly different
definition of ’edit’. With one major difference.
1
The dump based reports (e.g. on articles, editors, etc) count every
revision of a page stored in the database,
for articles which are perceived to be encyclopedic content or ‘content’
for short.
For most wikis only namespace 0 is such countable content.
A few wikis have extra namespaces deemed as content, which these are can
be queried via an API call.
From these namespaces formally only pages containing an internal link are
to be included (but in practice all are, as that info is not always
available).
Again with the exception of redirects which are always excluded.
Then Wikistats reports list counts separately for registered users, anons
and bots
See e.g.
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm#editor_activity_levelsa… other
tables on that page
2
Our traffic reports, based on server logs, count any page submit to any
wiki html page, no matter which namespace.
But the proportion of edits to non encyclopedic content is pretty small,
so no big deal.
Here bots are filtered at all (assuming x+ edits per day signals a bot,
taking few false positives for granted)
Major difference: These scripts do not know about logged-in status of
person (so total edit count is larger).
As these reports look into geo-distribution this is well worth
mentioning.
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageEditsPerCountryO…
In both occasions only a final submit of an edit is counted, not the
opening of the page in edit mode, or previews.
(also resending response to Rupert to all)
Rupert,
The report you mention is actually to be replaced by a more precise one.
Numbers for that report were based on 1:1000 sampled log.
New reports for edits use 1:1 unsampled log and are hence fully precise.
And numbers are monthly edits.
See for example this quarterly report:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageEditsPerCountryO…
Cheers,
Erik
PS
Unrelated: today I saw this nice quiz:
http://youdontknowafrica.com/?location=africa
*From:* Isla Haddow-Flood [mailto:islahf@africacentre.net]
*Sent:* Monday, November 25, 2013 11:58
*To:* rupert THURNER; wikimedia-gh(a)lists.wikimedia.org;
wikimediake-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org; wikimediaza; Erik Zachte
*Subject:* Re: [Wikimedia ZA] page edits per country ...
Hi Rupert
Thank you for the statistics!
I have often wondered that question and perhaps it is something we should
ask Erik Zachte who collates the stats (and is now cc’d in this email).
However, I am also not sure what exactly how to define a ‘real’ edit
(excuse my naïveté). Does it mean one not created by a bot? Or the length
of the text contributed, or indeed the quality of text. I am not sure how
one measures the difference and if there is a tool for doing so.
Erik, perhaps you could clarify for us?
Warmest
Isla
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*From: *rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner(a)gmail.com>
*Date: *Mon, 25 Nov 2013 09:16:23 +0100
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*Subject: *[Wikimedia ZA] page edits per country ...
hi
here page edits per month and country:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageEditsPerCountryO…
for Africa:
15'000 Egypt
10'000 south Africa
6'000 algeria
5'000 marocco
3'000 tunesia
2'000 kenya
1'000 angola
1'000 ghana
I am wondering how these numbers should be read. How many real edits does
it mean?
rupert
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