Hi All,
I've been working on visualizing editor behaviour on wikipedia over the
past few months. Below is the first set of graphs & some of the results.
- This presentation will help explain the data in the graphs & how to
interpret them. (
http://slides.com/cosmiclattes/edit-activity-graphs-analysis)
- The graphs
https://cosmiclattes.github.io/wikigraphs/data/wikis.
Checkout the slides before you jump into the graphs :-)
- The project page
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Editor_Behaviour_Analysis_%26_Grap…
Some numbers about the graphs.
- For the graphs showing data from 'en' - the english wikipedia I
crunched 790~ million edits and turned it into a 180 * 180 matrix of data.
- All the graphs are plotted from this 180 * 180 matrix, so it might
take a few seconds to load.
- The graphs are interactive, they have a filter on the top of the page.
Play with them.
Some preliminary results
- The monthly decline in active editors in en may be attributed to the
old timers. We see this across other languages too.
- Only the articles in the (beginning - 2007) cohorts continue to see
active edit activity.
- Retention rates are much higher in languages like de.
- zh (continues to show uptrend on many fronts. Active Editors,
retention etc).
Jeph