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[REQUEST] High-level understanding of Wikipedia editors: history and trends
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Name for main point of contact and contact preference
Carol Dunn, Slack and email

What teams or departments is this for?
Product / org wide for Annual Planning

What are your goals? How will you use this data or analysis?
Baselines and historic analysis of key metrics to help inform annual planning. Work is in progress for pageviews (see Pageviews History Google doc) - I retroactively documented this as a task here: T300421. We need something similar to understand editing metrics. This is particularly critical given recent declines in new editors and concerns around IP blocks.

What are the details of your request? Include relevant timelines or deadlines
Carol will have more details; work is starting the week of 31 January
From Carol: "much in the same way that we have looked at pageviews, I would like to understand change in editors over time and space. So this means the global view of how editors have changed year over year, as well as broken out by specific markets. Highlighting key language wikis would be useful as well"

Is this request urgent or time sensitive?
yes, time sensitive - Annual Planning is underway

WIP document

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Iflorez renamed this task from [REQUEST] High-level understanding of editing: history and trends to [REQUEST] High-level understanding of editors: history and trends.Feb 3 2022, 7:30 PM
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Iflorez renamed this task from [REQUEST] High-level understanding of editors: history and trends to [REQUEST] High-level understanding of Wikipedia editors: history and trends.Feb 4 2022, 12:40 AM

The base work drafted in the WIP doc suffices for now. As this document has been used for reference, I'm wrapping up this task and moving this to Needs Sign-off.

Iflorez lowered the priority of this task from High to Low.Aug 29 2022, 5:24 PM
Iflorez moved this task from Doing to Needs Review on the Product-Analytics (Kanban) board.

Thanks @Iflorez ! We have referenced this in recent health metrics discussions, and Irene contributed related materials to the Metrics that Matter Contributors overview.