Background
@Huji raised a few questions in T292781, which worth investigating. They are
- total edit
The total edit count line for 2019 (green dotted line) looks very jumpy. I wonder if this is because it includes edits by a currently non-bot but formerly bot account. Can you check if those spike in Sep-Dec 2019 are mainly from one account?
- blocks
Noticeable decrease in number of blocks.
Number of blocks from 2019 is causing the Y axis to go to 12K. I am guessing we imported a lot of IP blocks in April 2019 and again in July 2019. This might be my own bot even (HujiBot). Can we exclude bot-issued edits in this metric altogether? Both of our bot admins are still bots and admins (HujiBot and Dexbot).
- number of pages protected
For the number of pages protected metric, it is the 2021 pre-IP-ban data which causes problem with the Y axis. Again, I am guessing this was a bot related thing (without having checked, I would guess some admin bot went ahead and protected a lot of highly used templates). Can we exclude bot admins from this data?
To do
Investigate each question and document in this ticket. If needed, update the metric definition in weekly metrics dashboard.