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On 1 March 2018 at 14:17, Douglas Scott <[email protected]> wrote:

> That's strange, perhaps someone else on this mailing list might have some
> insight into this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Douglas.
>
> On 1 March 2018 at 14:36, Ingo Koll <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi everybody
>> some of you know that I look from time to time into the statistics for
>> African language wikipedias. Today I made a comparison which makes me doubt
>> the usefulness of our beautiful wikimedia statistics, at least for small
>> wikipedias.
>> I found large differences for the same months in different tables they
>> publish. Maybe it has to do with different data for different tables, but
>> then it is too well hidden for an average reader to notice (and thus not
>> helpful).
>>
>> I wondered about large differences between May and November 2017 when
>> looking at
>>
>>    1. https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN_Africa/Sitemap.htm Wednesday May
>>    31, 2017 ( TABLE 1)
>>    2. https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/Sitemap.htm Thursday November 30,
>>    2017 (TABLE 2)
>>
>> I compared to 3. https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN
>> /TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm (TABLE 3)
>> *RESULT: for views by hour* (default in tables 1+2); in table 3 I divide
>> the given monthly rounded figure by 30, then by 24
>>
>> *Language *
>>
>> *Nov 2017 Table1*
>>
>> *Nov 2017 Table 3*
>>
>> *May 2017 Table 2*
>>
>> *May 2017 Table 3*
>>
>> arz (Egyptian Arabic)
>>
>> 1204
>>
>> *2668*
>>
>> 4028
>>
>> *3194*
>>
>> sw (Swahili)
>>
>> 570
>>
>> *2361*
>>
>> 1905
>>
>> *1667*
>>
>> yo (Yoruba)
>>
>> 468
>>
>> *381*
>>
>> 1274
>>
>> *324*
>>
>> af  (Afrikaans)
>>
>> 2560
>>
>> *2361*
>>
>> 5640
>>
>> *3056*
>>
>> This looks to me highly contradictory and at least for smaller wikipedias
>> the figures are thus useless.
>>
>> Which is a pity! I try to ask the statistics team.
>>
>> Kipala-Ingo
>>
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