[Wiki Loves Monuments] Uploader stats

Sat Oct 6 19:12:58 UTC 2012

Hi Jane,

Thanks for your suggestion. Name in mediawiki and my script is case
sensitive. 

So I  just checked how many names would collide if compared case
insensitive. 

Out of 475,318 names of users who contributed at namespace 6 at least once, 
572 occurred more than once if counted case insensitive.

See http://tinyurl.com/9oxxwu6

The extra number of users is somewhere 2000+ such this seems not to be it. 

I don't know your user name, but you can check for yourself if it occurs in
above file.

Cheers, 

Erik

From: Jane Darnell [mailto:jane023 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 11:52 AM
To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition
Cc: Lodewijk; Rob Lanphier; Diederik van Liere; Erik Zachte
Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Uploader stats

Great stats Erik, and I agree with Lodewijk that we seem to have lots of
returnees!

It is very puzzling about the increased activity of non-WLM uploaders. Of
course there is a lot going on behind the scenes at Wiki Commons with
categorization and id-checking and so on, but I feel that the vast majority
of volunteers on Commons and other projects are also uploading photos
themselves (like me).

It's just a thought, but I noticed that when I uploaded with my mobile
phone, that my username was all in lowercase. I hope the usernames are not
counted in a case-sensitive manner. Could this be a reason?

Jane

2012/10/5 Itzik Edri <itzik at infra.co.il>

Erik sent it from start with a copy to the mailing list :-) but indeed, I
selected ''reply to all'', strange he didn't send a copy to him... 

Itzik

- Sent from my mobile device

On Oct 5, 2012 10:30 PM, "Matthew Roth" <mroth at wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hi Itzik, 
I don't know if Erik was on that thread. I'm cc'ing him here.

-Matthew

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Itzik Edri <itzik at infra.co.il> wrote:

Hi Erik,

Thanks for sharing that. I know tomasz plan to share also mobile upload
stats that could be interesting...

Take into consideration that in Israel people still uploading photos until
the 15th. It's not thousands of photos per day, but still can effect the
finall number a little...

Itzik

- Sent from my mobile device

On Oct 5, 2012 7:37 PM, "Erik Zachte" <ezachte at wikimedia.org> wrote:

First congrats for the overall success of WLM 2012, and also for the awesome
stats at http://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wlm/stats.php

Here are some extra stats about uploaders, with focus on new vs experienced
contributors:

These data are provisional, while we vet input further (last chart seems to
indicate there is still some anomaly), see at '==>'

This chart shows how the three WLM event lead to increasingly large peaks in
new editors (on any project).

 <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_uploaders_2010-2012_linear.png>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_uploaders_2010-2012_linear.png

Same chart with logarithmic  y axis. This shows that numbers of old hands
contributing to WLM is non-negligible.

 <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_uploaders_2010-2012_log.png>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_uploaders_2010-2012_log.png

For completeness sake, similar linear and log charts where only WLM 2012 is
taken into account. 

 <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_uploaders_2012_linear.png>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_uploaders_2012_linear.png

 <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_uploaders_2012_log.png>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_uploaders_2012_log.png

Following bar chart shows experienced vs new uploaders to each WLM event.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_uploaders_2010-2012_bar_chart_cor
rected.png

Last chart is similar as first chart, now with remaining Commons
contributors to namespace 6 plotted as second line.

Surprisingly there is still a big leap in non WLM editors in Sep 2012 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLM_uploaders_2010-2012_vs_other_NS6_
editors_linear.png

==> (hmmm, seems too coincidental, are we missing WML participants ?, in
other words should some users still move from red to blue line ?)

Also updated is monthly Wikistats report:

http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikispecial/EN/TablesWikipediaCOMMONS.htm

Note that there was no time after closure of month to produce and process
full archive dump. That will happen in coming week, and  overall article
counts and too much lesser degree editor activity counts will drop a few
percent, but it should not affect uploader counts.  (reason: for stub dump
we cannot apply all official criteria for proper articles, as page content
is not available: no check for internal or category link).

Also noteworthy: you can see which people are most active on the mailing
list: http://www.infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/ScanMail/WikiLovesMonuments.html

--

Some more details: 

Each year I get a list of user names of people who contribute to WLM. 

In 2010 the list contained 201 names, in 2011 there were 5462 names and this
year 14994. 

That is 25 less than the 15019 mentioned on
http://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wlm/stats.php

I found edits for 14737 out of the list of 14994 that was provided, that may
need further scrutiny (maybe some unicode names got mixed up) 

Platonides:

If we restrict to valid submissions:

> time sql commonswiki_p "SELECT DISTINCT user_name FROM
u_platonides_wlm_p.wlm2012 JOIN user ON (user_id=wlm_author) WHERE
wlm_source = 'commons' AND wlm_status='Participating';" >
wlmParticipatingUsernames.txt

http://toolserver.org/~platonides/sandbox/wlmParticipatingUsernames.txt

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