Research:Daily edits

Daily edits
Specification
${\displaystyle {\text{daily edits}}(D)}$ is a count of the number of edits saved by any users on date ${\displaystyle D}$.
WMF Standard
no parameters
Measures
Contribution
Status
completed
SQL
SET @date = "20140101";

SELECT
SUM(revisions) AS revisions
FROM (
SELECT
COUNT(*) AS revisions
FROM revision
WHERE
rev_timestamp BETWEEN @date AND
UNION ALL
SELECT
COUNT(*) AS revisions
FROM archive
WHERE
ar_timestamp BETWEEN @date AND
) AS all_revisions;


Discussion

Time lag

As this is a daily metric, a full 24 hours must elapse after the beginning of the date (UTC) in order to calculate an uncensored value.

Edits on deleted pages

This metric includes edits on existing pages as well as pages that have been or will later be deleted. This allows us to define a metric as stateless, in other words historical values will not change in the future depending on the status of a page (existing/deleted/moved) at the time the metric is computed. Deletion-related activity is tracked via a separate set of metrics.

Edits across all namespaces

This metric counts activity across all namespaces of a project: whether an edit is a new page creation, a revision to an existing page or a draft, a message left on a talk page or a contribution to a Wikiproject, the edit is counted as a contribution to the project. The metrics is agnostic about the quality, size or purpose of the edit. Specific types of contribution are measured via dedicated metrics or breakdowns.