Ronnie,

The reported –21.23% drop seems to be based on a comparison of the December 2021 figure (4,970,053 edits) to the January 2021 figure (6,309,228 edits): 

4,970,053/6,309,228 = 78.77% (so the reduction from January 2021 to December 2021 is 100% – 78.77% = 21.23%).

However, highlighting this figure in the English Wikipedia "Edits" box as "64M↓ –21.23% year over year"[1] makes no sense whatsoever as far as I can see. As you correctly observe, according to the monthly figures shown, the number of edits actually increased by 4% or so in 2021 compared to 2020.

If Ronnie and I are missing something here, please let us know ...

Andreas

[1] https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org

On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 9:03 AM RonnieV <wikipedia@ronaldvelgersdijk.nl> wrote:

Could there something be wrong with the presentation?

The total number of edits at the English Wikipedia should have dropped 21,23% https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org
The numbers at https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/contributing/edits/normal|table|2-year|~total|monthly do show 63.8M edits in 2021 and only 61.5M in 2020.

Do I misinterpret the graph?

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Met vriendelijke groet,

RonnieV


Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga schreef op 2022-01-07 18:51:

There's another option: the 2020 pandemic lockdowns made a huge peak on views, so year on year, 2021 has worse results.

2022(e)ko urt. 7(a) 18:41 erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du (Anders Wennersten <mail@anderswennersten.se>):

When I look at statistics for mature wikipedias: en, de pl, nl they all
show a decrease of views of 13-15% in last 12 months from a year ago,
and number of active editors down 10- 20 % (with exception of en).

Has this been analysed somewhere, are we losing our readers and
contributors or is it mostly Google that access our info "smarter" not
creating "views"

Anders

https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/de.wikipedia.org

https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org

https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/nl.wikipedia.org

https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/pl.wikipedia.org
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