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_Graph...
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