User talk:Amgine/Wikidata random sample test

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This is not the best methodology, and toolserver was giving me issues with getting data. The use of the tools in question is very low, and only the most active of a certain kind of user likely to use it. I went through RecentChanges (and then eventually only to RecentChanges on the user space). I added their username to this and identified the wikiproject they had the most edits on. After that, I went to wikidata edits by month, and recorded that. On the project they had the most edits on, I looked at edits by month. Real struggle to find users, so only 6 users in my sample... --LauraHale (talk) 20:30, 16 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Even with borders I'm not at all certain I understand what is being measured here. Amongst the sample you have here include months with more than 500,000 edits, and thus exemplify why trying to measure botter contributions is difficult - that's a bit more than 1 edit every 5 seconds 24/24h 30/30d. But if the tool does get me the frequencies then it will be much stronger than the simple 'snapshot' method I'm currently using.
 * I wanted to directly compare total volume of edits per month since a person started contributing to Wikidata with the volume of edits they make to their home wiki project. (Then calculate correlation, slope and difference in edit totals on average per month.)  Goal to see if there is a correlation between contributions between Wikidata and other projects. --LauraHale (talk) 06:25, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
 * &lt;nods&gt; Yep. The stats aren't reliable, and the measure is also suspect (bot or script based editing is as like hand editing as periwinkles are like periwinkles - not at all.) Excellent tools and study models. Thanks! -  Amgine | t 06:34, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
 * This method is likely to only pick up a certain type of user, the more power user. If doing an extensive study on this topic, I think you would really need about 4 different ways of approaching the data to try understand different user groups that interact with projects in their own ways. --LauraHale (talk) 06:40, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
 * (Well, I have most edits on Commons and Wikidata, however my home wiki is ko.wikipedia. -- 레비 Revi ✉ SUL Info 07:04, 17 November 2013 (UTC))
 * Yes, I had already noticed this Hym411, and I am writing up a methodology to track wikidata, home wiki (where available), and largest contribution totals. One problem with this is some user accounts are not Global accounts, and therefore the 'home wiki' is not known. (for others, home wiki and largest contributions are the same and I have to figure out how to note this in the tabular output.) -  Amgine | t 07:10, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
 * You may use ref tag noticing it. -- 레비 Revi ✉ SUL Info 07:17, 17 November 2013 (UTC)