Active editors counts

Number of active editors. Caution: This metric measures editors' activity, therefore it includes edits on redirects.

wx_active_editors(
  project,
  editor_type = c("all", "anonymous", "user", "bot", "bot group"),
  page_type = c("all", "content", "non-content"),
  activity_level = c("all", "1-4", "5-24", "25-99", "100+"),
  granularity = c("daily", "monthly"),
  start_date = "20191101",
  end_date = "20191231"
)

Arguments

project	The name of any Wikimedia project formatted like {language code}.{project name}, for example en.wikipedia. You may pass en.wikipedia.org and the .org will be stripped off. For projects like Wikimedia Commons (without language codes), use commons.wikimedia. For projects like www.mediawiki.org, you can use that full string, or just use mediawiki or mediawiki.org.
editor_type	If you want to filter by editor-type, use one of "anonymous", "group-bot" (registered accounts belonging to the bot group), "name-bot" (registered accounts not belonging to the bot group but having bot-like names) or "user" (registered account not in bot group nor having bot-like name). If you are interested in edits regardless of their editor type, use "all-editor-types" (default).
page_type	If you want to filter by page-type, use one of: "content" (edits made in content namespaces) or "non-content" (edits made in non-content namespaces). If you are interested in editors regardless of their page type, use "all" (default).
activity_level	If you want to filter by activity-level (number of edits), use one of: "1-4", "5-24", "25-99", or "100+" edits. If you are interested in editors regardless of their activity-level, use "all" (default).
granularity	The time unit for the response data. As of today, supported values are daily (default) and monthly.
start_date	The date of the first day to include, in YYYYMMDD format. Can also be a Date or a POSIXt object, which will be auto-formatted.
end_date	The date of the last day to include, in YYYYMMDD format. Can also be a Date or a POSIXt object, which will be auto-formatted.

Value

A tibble data frame with columns

project

project

date

Date; beginning of the month if granularity = "monthly"

editors

Number of active editors

Granularity and dates

For "monthly" granularity, the start_date and end_date need to contain the full month.

For example, start_date = "20191101" and end_date = "20191231" would only give the monthly total for 2019-11. To include 2019-12, use end_date = "20200101".

Frustratingly, start_date = "20191201" and end_date = "20191231" does not yield 2019-12 monthly total. Use end_date = "20200101" for that.

License

Data retrieved from the API endpoint is available under the CC0 1.0 license.

See also

wikitech:Analytics/AQS/Wikistats 2

Other data & metrics on users: wx_newly_registered_users(), wx_top_editors()

Examples

wx_active_editors(
  "commons.wikimedia",
  editor_type = "bot",
  page_type = "content",
  activity_level = "100+",
  granularity = "monthly",
  start_date = "20200101",
  end_date = "20200301"
)
#> # A tibble: 2 x 3
#>   project           date       editors
#>   <chr>             <date>       <int>
#> 1 commons.wikimedia 2020-01-01       4
#> 2 commons.wikimedia 2020-02-01       7