On May 22, 2015, at 2:15 PM, Erik Zachte <ezac...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Historically consistent? Hmm, the article's main story is about how > historical in-wiki data are unreliable and a periodic recount is needed. Just > saying.
by “historically consistent” I mean not subject to arbitrary changes making measurement foo at time t1 incommensurable with foo at time t2. Aaron and I put a good deal of thinking into how to avoid recounts or issues due to arbitrary software configuration changes. > And the main theme in comments is “do we care about article count?" agreed. I added a note in the comments on work related to quality assessment. > -----Original Message----- > From: analytics-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org > [mailto:analytics-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Dario Taraborelli > Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 21:38 > To: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an > interest in Wikipedia and analytics. > Subject: [Analytics] The awful truth about Wikimedia's article counts > > From this week’s Signpost, worth reading: > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-05-20/In_focus > > this is a great illustration of why we need stateless, historically and > globally consistent measurements to report the growth of Wikimedia projects > (and particularly why the legacy definition of a “countable” article is > ridiculously problematic): > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Refining_the_definition_of_monthly_active_editors#Principles > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Metrics_standardization > > Dario > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
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