Re: [Wiki-research-l] Are there any stats on activity of editors compared to the population?

2012-05-20 Thread Piotr Konieczny
Thank you both, those are very useful to know about. -- Piotr Konieczny "To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat." --Józef Pilsudski On 5/17/2012 6:41 PM, Dario Taraborelli wrote: Piotr, have you seen this: https://wiki.toolserver.org/

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Are there any stats on activity of editors compared to the population?

2012-05-18 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Are there any stats on activity of editors compared to the population?

2012-05-17 Thread Dario Taraborelli
Piotr, have you seen this: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Query_service ? On May 17, 2012, at 1:50 PM, WereSpielChequers wrote: > Piotr, > > I've had a reasonable success rate by filing requests at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_requests. Several programmers keep > an eye on it

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Are there any stats on activity of editors compared to the population?

2012-05-17 Thread WereSpielChequers
Piotr, I've had a reasonable success rate by filing requests at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_requests. Several programmers keep an eye on it and if they think the task interesting and useful you may get lucky. WSC On 16 May 2012 18:09, Piotr Konieczny wrote: > Dario, > > Thanks,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Are there any stats on activity of editors compared to the population?

2012-05-16 Thread Piotr Konieczny
Dario, Thanks, but the last time I looked into this, running queries required knowing how to code going way beyond a simple knowledge of wiki syntax or excel functions. I think it was at WikiSym few years back where we raised that issue - that much of the data Wikimedia provides is limited to

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Are there any stats on activity of editors compared to the population?

2012-05-14 Thread Erik Zachte
there any stats on activity of editors compared to the population? Hi Piotr, You might make the assumption that the difference between 4 million and 16 million is largely editors who never get out of userspace, my experience is that such users are relatively rare, or at least won't dom

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Are there any stats on activity of editors compared to the population?

2012-05-10 Thread Dario Taraborelli
Piotr, if you are interested in getting fresh figures about lifetime edit counts I recommend you register an account on the toolserver where you can run queries against the user table (which holds cumulative edit counts across all namespaces for a specific wiki). For namespace-specific counts

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Are there any stats on activity of editors compared to the population?

2012-05-10 Thread WereSpielChequers
Hi Piotr, You might make the assumption that the difference between 4 million and 16 million is largely editors who never get out of userspace, my experience is that such users are relatively rare, or at least won't dominate that 12 million. I'm fairly sure that there will be a number of differen

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Are there any stats on activity of editors compared to the population?

2012-05-10 Thread Morten Wang
The majority of registered accounts on en-WP are likely to never have edited (some of them are perhaps autocreated by someone who's home Wikipedia is not English), or they edited an article that has since been deleted, and are therefore listed with no edits. In October 2010 I gathered some data fo

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Are there any stats on activity of editors compared to the population?

2012-05-10 Thread Piotr Konieczny
Thanks for the link. The figure 4,058,477 you cite (from http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm#editdistribution), as you note, comes with the warning that "Only article edits are counted, not edits on discussion pages, etc". I assume this is why the magic word NUMBEROFUSERSat en W

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Are there any stats on activity of editors compared to the population?

2012-05-10 Thread WereSpielChequers
I'm not sure that we have exactly what your asking for. For example we have the figure of 4,058,477 but that is for registered accounts on the English Wikipedia that have made at least one edit to an article. Different language versions of Wikipedia are also available, but of course registered acc

[Wiki-research-l] Are there any stats on activity of editors compared to the population?

2012-05-09 Thread Piotr Konieczny
I was looking at official stats, but I seem to be unable to find out an answer to the following question: * how many of Wikipedia editors have X edits (or fall within a range of edits) To be more precise, I am curious how many Wikipedians have: * exactly 1 edit * between 2-9 edits * between 10-5