Wikipedia:WikiProject Editing trends

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Welcome to WikiProject Editing trends. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration group to track and explain editing trends on Wikipedia. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

WikiProject Editing Trends
Main
Resources
Raw data
Charts and graphs
Compilations and analysis
Proposals
Members
Related
Statistics Department
WikiProject Edit counters
Wikipedia statistics
Wikimedia Research Network
Wikimetrics
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Goals

• Compile and catalog statistics on editing trends that occur on Wikipedia
• Interpret editing trends and derived statistics to ascertain causation
• Develop proposals to address long-term negative editing trends

Scope

• Any quantitative or qualitative measurement of change for any materially important component of the project.

Guidelines

• The Wikiproject may not release private data to individuals; participants with higher level userrights are reminded to abide by any terms of use of the higher level userrights when compiling data for the project.
• Files and graphs should be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons to encourage interwiki collaboration.
• Whenever possible, charts should avoid listing usernames when tracking trends, User IDs can be obtained from this Toolserver utility for such purposes.

Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Editing trends: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2009-04-10 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests: Fill in existing resources and analysis. Other: Create a Wikipedia:Editing trends page

Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

1. MBisanz (talk · contribs)
2. Dragons flight (talk · contribs)
3. Ikip (talk · contribs) particularly deletions, and its effect on user retention.
4. Casliber (talk · contribs) deletions, BLPS, quality article content and ways to improve.
5. Juliancolton (talk · contribs)
6. Dank55 (talk · contribs)
7. John Broughton (talk · contribs)
8. Henrik (talk · contribs)
9. Ragesoss (talk · contribs)
10. HenkvD (talk · contribs) Future trends, how long do users contribute
11. Chillum (talk · contribs) I do aggregate things...
12. KhabarNegar (talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on trends and I already do it. It is very useful. I do check the trends to see if the article is OK and there is no problem. I have sources and find trends by them, and always look for new sources to track trends.)
13. Liz (talk · contribs)

Resources

• "Statistics" topic in the Editor's index
• Yearbook histories

Raw data

• Revisions per day
• Days per X edits
• Wikipedia:Editing frequency

Charts and graphs

• Category:Wikipedia charts
• File:Enwikipediagrowth6.PNG
• File:Active admins.png
• File:Wikipedia Revert Distribution.png
• File:Wikipedia Revert Rate.png
• File:Wikipedia approx total edit count over time graph.png
• File:Wikipedia approx total edit count over time graph 2.png
• File:Wikipedia Edit Frequency.png
• File:2.5M edit time enwiki.png
• File:5M edit time enwiki.png
• File:Date of 2.5M enwiki.png
• File:Date of 5M enwiki.png
• File:Enwiki new users by month line jan 2009.png
• User:NoSeptember/Admin stats
• User:NoSeptember/admin graphs
• File:Admins-WP-DE.png
• File:Comparison of percentage of edit number - IP user and registered user.png
• File:Vandalism.png
• File:GWB vandalisms.png
• File:Vandalism breakdown.PNG
• File:Wikipedia-Vandalism-2009.png
• File:DEWP 2008 vandalism blocks.png
• File:Articles distinct.png
• File:Wikipedia Revert Rate.png
• File:Enwp-rollback-rate.svg
• File:Wpvs 7.PNG
• File:Enwiki new users by month line nov 2009.png
• File:Enwiki new users by month bar nov 2009.png
• File:ActiveAdmins 10-11-2009.png
• File:ActiveAdmins 05-05-2010.png
• File:ActiveAdmins 18-06-2012.png
• commons:Category:Editor trends study
• File:Successful adminship candidacies vs active editors November 2012.png
• File:ActiveAdmins 22-11-2012.png
• File:Active administrators vs active editors.png

Compilations and analysis

• User:Dragons flight/Log analysis
• User:NoSeptember/Admin stats/Durin
• User:NoSeptember/admin graphs
• User:White Cat/Adminship survey summary
• User:Useight/RFA Subjects/Statistics
• wmf:File:Wikipedia General Survey-Overview 0.3.9.pdf
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-01-03/Editing stats
• Wikipedia:WikiProject on Adminship/Role of admins
• ASC PARC analysis
• User:HenkvD/Articlesize
• commons:User:HenkvD/Articles
• strategy:Editor Trends Study
• strategy:Editor Trends Study/Results

Proposals

Templates

• {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Editing trends/UBX}}

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• {{WPET}}

Categories

• Category:WikiProject Editing trends

Resources