User talk:Howief (WMF)

Welcome!
Welcome to Wikipedia, Howief! I have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on or by typing helpme at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on, or place helpme on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! User:Marek69. 00:43, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
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Stats for Reveiwing
Can we change it to do more than just the top reviewers in the last hour? Also, on the actual pending changes page can we set it up so instead of "Less than 1 hour" it will display the actual minutes since. I understand the less than one hour was done with the expectation of backlogs, but as of now there are never any. Beam 13:37, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Admin Stats
Hi Howie, I've updated User:WereSpielChequers/RFA by month and added Wikigeneration data. I'm also putting together a signpost article at Wikipedia Signpost/2010-08-02/In data and your input would be welcome. In particular do you have any non EN stuff you could add?  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  09:59, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * n.b. the page was moved to Wikipedia Signpost/2010-08-09/Admin stats ☆ Bri (talk) 23:18, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Pending changes/Vote comment
As you commented in the pending closure discussion I am notifying you that the Pending changes/Vote comment is now open and will be for two weeks, discussion as required can continue on the talkpage. Thanks. Off2riorob (talk) 23:19, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

Talkback
You have  new messages ( last change ). / ƒETCH COMMS  /  02:33, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Replied at my talk page. / ƒETCH COMMS  /  23:30, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

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Tabular data for the editor trends study
Hi Howie, I heard you may have tabular data for the editor trends study. I would be interested to know the absolute amount of users that have stuck around for at least a year on en.wiki (so not the relative fraction, but the gross number). I've got some sort of gut feeling that our community can only support a limited number of new users with the proper care, and that we have maxed that number. It would make sense to me that we have saturated our ability to properly incorporate new users in our community, and that the gross number may even be slightly dropping, as we are overstretching the 'regulars' dealing with newcomers, being so flooded with newcomers that we lack the time to properly showing them around in an ever increasingly complicated environment. Another possibly useful/interesting measure for that would be the relation (new users per month/veteran editors)/(relative amount of users staying at least a year). Veteran editors here could be any sensible measure (i.e. amount of active users who have been wikipedian for a year or more, amount of active users with at least 2000 edits, something else completely). I would like to be able to back that up with data. Would you happen to have this sort of data aggregates laying around in tabular form? Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 23:49, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Sure, I can post the data used for the charts. It would be great to have others take a look at the numbers and do their own analysis.  I think the types of ratios you've mentioned are very interesting.  The Editor Trends Study data actually has the relative amounts of different types of users (namely veteran vs. new) staying every year.  For the other ratios, you may need to take data from multiple sources to calculate them.  I'll post what I have and maybe we chat about the other info you need and where you might be able to get it.  I've found stats.wikimedia.org very helpful as it has a lot of raw data on many editor measures. Howief (talk) 19:41, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
 * If you could come up with an easily accessible scheme to publish the raw data it would be great. Wikitext (or at wikitables) seems the least suitable way to share it, though CSV pasted into wiki could be doable. Presentation would be crappy, but who cares. A publicly queriable RDBS would be great for me, but possibly less accessible for others. Opening up the MongoDB to be queried publicly could also help, but I don't know how to get data from that :( Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 20:46, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I uploaded the data to Google spreadsheets. The links are here.  You may download the file in csv form and conduct your own analysis.  Let me know what you come up with! Howief (talk) 00:28, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm still rather busy (cursing, etc.) with aggregating and calculating all data I want, but one thing I'm fairly sure off is that the amount of active editors who have been around longer than a year is showing generalised logistic growth, and we have reached the top limit, which is ~15000. Which is both bad news and good news. The bad news is, it seems en.wiki reached peak capacity. The good news is, earlier data showed that the amount of veteran editors was a negative factor on newbie retention (almost lineary). When I have some nice charts and analyses done (I'm going to have to muck about with math packages again, and I'm so rusty on those, I'm really going to struggle) I'll let you know. I'll also post on the Editor Trends study talkpage. Someone more in the know on population modeling could probably make a pretty solid prediction based on the generated data. That could very well identify at least some numeric boundaries and limiting factors. In the mean time I'll try to work out the numbers I have now, and maybe see if the there is a correlation between the amount of bytes on projectspace and the amount of editors, or on the retention of editors. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 15:42, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Kitteh!

Jorm (WMF) (talk) 22:31, 30 June 2011 (UTC) 

A kitten for you!
Working with Howie is a blast

Geoffbrigham (talk) 03:14, 23 August 2011 (UTC) 

A kitten for you!
Everybody likes kittens!

Jorm (WMF) (talk) 23:53, 7 November 2011 (UTC) 

Feedback editing
Hello!

Is it possible in any way that I could respond to the messages that get sent on the "Feedback about editing"? I was just wondering because I would love to help any users who are confused, Happy and Sad! Thanks!

Harryhi270 (talk) 23:59, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

Image
https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Web_evolution_examples.jpg is interesting, can you upload it to Commons? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 08:31, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Hey Piotr. I'm happy to upload this, though I think the logos may be a bit problematic from a licensing standpoint.  I'll try to create a version that doesn't contain the logos and upload to Commons.  BTW, what's your area of interest?  Between inquiring about this chart and reasons Wikipedia editors leave, I'm very curious as to what you have in mind :).  Howief (talk) 18:29, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Here is a version without the logos: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Examples_of_how_web_has_evolved.jpeg Howief (talk) 18:52, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Reasons for editors leaving Wikipedia
Hey. Can you recall any paper on reasons for editors leaving Wikipedia other than data published at Wikipedia Editor Survey 2011? This never got far, from what I see. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 03:45, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Hey Piotr. I'm not aware of any other significant paper that documents the reasons editors leave Wikipedia.  As far as I know, the Former Contributors Survey contains the most helpful information on the topic that we have.  You should note that it wasn't conducted as an academic research project (e.g., peer review).  It was conducted from a practical point of view of trying to shed light on why contributors leave.  In particular, there were many anecdotal reasons that were at the time discussed, and I wanted some more/better information.  Howief (talk) 18:21, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for getting back to me. Would it be possible to obtain the raw data from the Former Editor Survey? I am interesting in pursuing a related topic for my new research project. It would compliment this dataset nicely. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 06:41, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I'd really appreciate the comment on the availability of the dataset, as I am delaying my research on this waiting for it. I'd really hope it can be made available - not only would that speed up my project, but would avoid taking the time of editors who already participated in your survey. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 07:08, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Echo!
Echo! Echo! Echo!

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-- tychay (tchay@wikimedia) (talk) 00:09, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Test
sending myself a message Howief (talk) 15:14, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

another test
Howief (talk) 15:16, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

another test
WMFTest31415926 (talk) 16:12, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Test post
Hi Howie, here's a test post. DannyH (WMF) (talk) 18:29, 5 September 2014 (UTC)