[Analytics] Does StackExchange have more monthly active users than Wikipedia?

Some information at https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/269334/how-many-active-users-contributors-does-stack-overflow-stack-exchange-have/ TL;DR: not really, and definitely not StackOverflow alone (~14k). But perhaps the whole StackExchange has more than the English Wikipedia alone. Nemo

Re: [Analytics] Does StackExchange have more monthly active users than Wikipedia?

+research Fascinating. Thanks for sharing this, Nemo. And for setting those arrogant Stackers straight ;) For anyone else interested: Nemo was able to answer this question because StackExchange has a Quarry -like public query interface of their own. You should go play

[Analytics] An example of pageviews usage

I've been working on book search at the Internet Archive, and I've been using Wikipedia article titles and redirects as entities and synonyms. I wanted to build autocomplete for this gizmo, so I downloaded 7 days of pageviews for the en Wikipedia, and wrote a tiny script to sum them up. It worked g

Re: [Analytics] An example of pageviews usage

It was great to meet you at IA yesterday, thanks for following up with this link to your work. Very interesting and coincides with our own work on using the completion suggester to replace the current prefix search used on-wiki. Have you put any thought into normalizing page view data? One thing w

[Analytics] On toxic communities

Very interesting read (via Brandon Harris): http://recode.net/2015/07/07/doing-something-about-the-impossible-problem-of-abuse-in-online-games/ "the vast majority of negative behavior ... did not originate from the persistently negative online citizens; in fact, 87 percent of online toxicity came

Re: [Analytics] On toxic communities

We're discussing this on the Research mailing list, among others. (: Pine On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Denny Vrandečić wrote: > Very interesting read (via Brandon Harris): > > > http://recode.net/2015/07/07/doing-something-about-the-impossible-problem-of-abuse-in-online-games/ > > "the vast

Re: [Analytics] An example of pageviews usage

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 01:45:57PM -0800, Erik Bernhardson wrote: > Have you put any thought into normalizing page view data? I haven't studied it, but I think you've got a good start: normalizing them by the # of pageviews of the community. So if someone types an entire French phrase into the En

Re: [Analytics] Please take a look at mediawiki API stats needs

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Nuria Ruiz wrote: > Team: > > Please take a look at Mediawiki API data needs, they made a nice wiki page > for us to understand what type of data do they need. > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:BDavis_%28WMF%29/Projects/Action_API_request_analytics > > We alr

Re: [Analytics] Does StackExchange have more monthly active users than Wikipedia?

StackOverflow's recent blog post about renaming their organisation does make an interesting claim though. https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/09/were-changing-our-name-back-to-stack-overflow/ > The [Stack Exchange] network as a whole has more monthly 5-time posters than English Wikipedia has 5-ti

Re: [Analytics] Please take a look at mediawiki API stats needs

> The existing ua based classification of "spider" misses a lot of user-agents that are obviously bots If a bot is identifying as such we should be marking it as "spider", please let us know what patterns you think we are missing. Let's also have in mind that we have a lot of traffic of user agent

Re: [Analytics] Does StackExchange have more monthly active users than Wikipedia?

> > For anyone else interested: Nemo was able to answer this question because > StackExchange has a Quarry -like public query > interface of their own. You should go play with it right now: > http://data.stackexchange.com/ > It's worth pointing out one major difference

Re: [Analytics] Please take a look at mediawiki API stats needs

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Bryan Davis wrote: > * Only 1% of Action API traffic comes from WMF servers (excluding labs) This is a lot lower than I'd expect. Is this based on Varnish logs, or specific logs / metrics emitted by the action API code itself? If it is using Varnish logs, then m

Re: [Analytics] Please take a look at mediawiki API stats needs

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Gabriel Wicke wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Bryan Davis wrote: > >> * Only 1% of Action API traffic comes from WMF servers (excluding labs) > > > This is a lot lower than I'd expect. Is this based on Varnish logs, or > specific logs / metrics emitted b

Re: [Analytics] Does StackExchange have more monthly active users than Wikipedia?

Joel Spolsky explained his comparison - which was already mentioned on this list (Analytics-l) on September 17 - a bit more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvEAuSHJOBU&t=2216 TLDL: it's indeed about the entire Stack Exchange network vs. the English Wikipedia (i.e. not about the number from Ne

Re: [Analytics] Does StackExchange have more monthly active users than Wikipedia?

Timo Tijhof, 14/11/2015 01:38: StackOverflow's recent blog post about renaming their organisation does make an interesting claim though. https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/09/were-changing-our-name-back-to-stack-overflow/ > The [Stack Exchange] network as a whole has more monthly 5-time poste

Re: [Analytics] On toxic communities

I was skeptical of even reading this article, but it actually seems pretty insightful. It also seems more relevant to Wikipedia than I was expecting: "The answer had to be community-wide reform of cultural norms. We had to change how people thought about online society and change their expectations