Hi Erik,

My query only looks at the last 30 days.  See the "(in the last 30 days)"
suffix on the title :)  This explains the discrepancy in our counts.

-Aaron

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Erik Zachte <[email protected]> wrote:

> Here is an experiment I did about two months ago with First Normal Form
> (yikes!) and GNU. I just never posted this yet.
>
> I collected alle edits from all wikis using recent full history stub
> dumps, with a perl script, which took some 30 hours.
> The total file for all Wikimedia wikis is 240 GB uncompressed, 2.94
> billion lines.
>
> Each edit yields a record with wiki, timestamp, namespace, user name,
> article title and then some.
> Now querying that file with grep,cut,sort,uniq,wc is pretty
> straightforward and remarkably fast (30-40 min), and rather versatile.
>
> A) Top editors in namespace 'Module' (=828) on English Wikipedia:
>
> grep -P "^enwiki," EditsTimestampsTitlesAll.csv | cut -d ',' -f 6,9 | grep
> -P "^828," | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 500 >
> top500_edits_enwiki_namespace_828.txt
>
> should yield figures similar to Aaron's quarry query [3], but in fact they
> are way higher
> e.g. top editor (according to quarry) for that namespace 'Module' (=828)
> user 'Mehmedsons' had a two months ago 1251 instead of quarry's 234 edits,
> which is confirmed by [3]
>
> [1] https://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/scan_edits/edits_
> namespace_828_enwiki.txt
> [2] https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/17556
> [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:
> Contributions&contribs=user&target=Mehmedsons&namespace=828&tagfilter
>
> B) similarly, but for all wikis and namespaces: total edits per wiki per
> namespace per user (filter as you like)
>
> cut -d ',' -f 1,6,9 EditsTimestampsTitlesAll.csv | sort -t\, -k 1,1 -k
> 2,2n -k 3,3 | uniq -c > edits_per_wiki_namespace_user.txt
>
> [4] https://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/scan_edits/edits_per_
> wiki_namespace_user.zip
>
> C) Most edited articles all over:
>
> here are top 10, for top 10,000 see [5]
>
> 1259058 enwiki,4,Wikipedia,Administrator intervention against vandalism
>  955842 enwiki,4,Wikipedia,Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
>  788061 enwiki,2,User,Cyde/List of candidates for speedy deletion/Subpage
>  654559 enwiki,4,Wikipedia,Sandbox
>  578992 metawiki,2,User,COIBot/LinkReports
>  446429 dewiki,4,Wikipedia,Vandalismusmeldung
>  434556 enwiki,4,Wikipedia,Requests for page protection
>  433781 enwiki,4,Wikipedia,Reference desk/Science
>  390821 commonswiki,4,Commons,Quality images candidates/candidate list
>  369557 enwiki,4,Wikipedia,Help desk
>
>
> [5] https://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/scan_edits/top_10000_
> most_edited_articles.txt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Analytics [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Dan Andreescu
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 3:13
> To: Andre Klapper; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Analytics] Top editors in a certain namespace across sites?
>
> We are working real hard to make cross-site querying easy from quarry, by
> pointing it to the new data we're working on. So we hope to have that out
> as soon as the new labs db servers have data for all projects. A quick
> question on this topic: how far back do you all need to go? Whole history
> for most things or will you get a lot of value out of one or two years,
> with further back just being nice to have?
>
>   Original Message
> From: Andre Klapper
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 15:55
> To: [email protected]
> Reply To: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who
> has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics.
> Subject: Re: [Analytics] Top editors in a certain namespace across sites?
>
> On Wed, 2017-03-22 at 17:25 -0500, Aaron Halfaker wrote:
> > https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/17556
>
> Thanks a lot everybody for your replies and explanations!
>
> A welcome reminder that I have to learn more about Quarry (plus find a way
> to also query cross-site and maybe restrict to "recent edits").
>
> andre
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