Hi all,

The Analytics team at the Wikimedia Foundation [0] has recently started releasing monthly data that gives you some information about the count of active editors [1] per country contributing to the different Wikipedia language editions. You can review the full announcement [2] and play with the data [3].

I'm sharing this information on this list as many of the activities of affiliates and volunteers of Wikipedia are focused on specific geographies (through organizing events such as editathons, building partnerships, running contests such as Wiki Loves *) and you may be interested in monitoring how the geography of the editors in your projects change over time.

If you think the data is of interest to you and you need help using it, I have some pre-baked news for you. ;) The Research team, which I'm a member of, will start (experimental) monthly IRC office hours starting January and you can drop by and ask for help to use the data. (I also just noticed that Analytics will start their own office hours in January [4] though I'm less sure about the scope of theirs.)

Best, Leila

[0] https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/analytics/ [1] Active is defined based on two categories of contributions: 5-99 edits/month and 100 or more edits/month. [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2019-November/006702.html [3] https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/geoeditors/ [4] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics#Contact