@Pamputt the url you give is about views not viewers. This is so often mixed up.

I expect your question is going to stir discussions on privacy protection, and it should. IMO it would already be quite helpful to revive stats on edits (rather than editors), which we used to have years ago. Same concerns apply, but the weighing of benefits vs risks will be different.

https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageEditsPerCountryOverview2014Q4.htm

In T188859#4022034, @ezachte wrote:

@Pamputt the url you give is about views not viewers. This is so often mixed up.

I think Pamputt knows that—they said: "the idea is to have something similar...not for readers but for contributors." :)

This is essentially the same request as T131280. That task has been held up by privacy concerns for several years, but I believe it's now being worked on. That task originated before Wikistats 2.0, but I think that would be the logical place for the information.

@Milimetric, can you confirm that if aggregate editor location data passes our privacy standards, it would go in Wikistats 2.0? If so, we can merge this task.

@Milimetric, can you confirm that if aggregate editor location data passes our privacy standards, it would go in Wikistats 2.0? If so, we can merge this task.

@Neil_P._Quinn_WMF: confirmed. I'll merge. And yes, agree with all of you, any data we can safely publish here would be not only great and fun but very useful for important work. I'm working on it as we speak.

This is scheduled to be added to wikistats Q2 2020 (Sep to Dec)

IANAA (I am not an analyst) so there's little I can contribute to this task, but I wanted to give an example of how this sort of data could be used. I work in Comms for the Foundation and part of my responsibilities is trying to help amplify and share the stories of the movement volunteer contributors. I'm working on a profile of an editor for Diff and wanted to express how their community-building work has impacted editorship in their country. With stats about editorship by geographic area I could say something like, "When Bethany started editing Malagasy Wikipedia in 2014, contributions for their home country of Madagascar comprised less than one percent of total edits made to the website globally. Today it's four percent."

That would be cool. With statistics like the ones potentially provided by this feature, a dash of quantitive metrics can help solidify the impact communities and contributors have at the local – and movement – level.

@CKoerner_WMF just so you know this data has been publicy available for now about a year, the task in question is to visualize it via Wikistats.

For the public data files (updated monthly) see: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data_Lake/Edits/Geoeditors/Public

and https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/geoeditors/readme.html

@Nuria I see that Chris is talking about "total edits" as opposed to editors, so that would mean publishing the edits numbers, which we already send to GII and are somewhat less problematic than the editor numbers. @CKoerner_WMF it would be great if you could confirm, perhaps by discussing with an analyst and weighing pros and cons of using *editor* vs. *edit* statistics. The editor statistics will be available in Wikistats shortly while the edit statistics would need more time and would probably not be our top priority for a while.

I think that CKoerner_WMF.'s works fine with editors as well: "When Bethany started editing Malagasy Wikipedia in 2014, there were no Wikipedia editors in her home country of Madagascar" so I do not really see a strong use case for edits versus editors in this case

Change 647792 had a related patch set uploaded (by Fdans; owner: Fdans):
[analytics/wikistats2@master] Add Active Editors per Country metric to Wikistats

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/647792

Change 647792 merged by jenkins-bot:
[analytics/wikistats2@master] Add Active Editors per Country metric to Wikistats

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/647792