User talk:Statistics~enwiki

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Interesting Stuff
Hey, keep your stats coming.. Also, it might be fun to produce CSV or tab seperated datasets for us to analyze without having to pull the sql dumps ourselves. :) --Gmaxwell 06:05, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

A suggestion
I've noticed your posts on Wikipedia. I think that your user page gives some excellent information, but also demonstrates substantial statistical skills that could be valuable to the project. I really like the diagrams, by the way.

Unfortunately, your contributions to talk pages caused quite a disruption. The mere fact that boxes are so large makes pages difficult to read. A more considerate way would have been to put the statistics in your userspace (i.e. User:Statistics/Page name) and provide links to them, without the wordy interpretation and judgments. We can all read numbers.

But there is another, more important thing. You are a newcomer to the community, and it is likely that people will get annoyed if you butt straight into controversial community issues, let alone get involved and express opinions on them while claiming to merely present facts.

So here's my suggestion: do some uncontroversial geuninely useful work and leave wikipolitics alone for a while, especially pages like the administrator's noticeboard and arbitration. Show us that your skills are valuable to the project and you will find people more willing to listen to your opinions. Here are some things I'd like to know:
 * How many of our articles about people use honorific styles and how are they distributed by country?
 * How are our articles and edits structured by general categories?
 * How frequently do people edit, how long do they stay on wikipedia, does it have anything to do with pages they edit, by namespace or category?

Furhtermore, it's easy to misunderstand how community works if you don't participate in the output side of the project, i.e. writing the encyclopedia. It might be advantageous if you registered a separate account and used it to contribute to the encyclopedia and get the feel of the project. Then you could use this one exclusively for statistics and discussion about them, and keep out of wikipolitics which don't concern statistics per-se.

If, after the concept of somebody doing statistic settles in, you want to provide statistics for other debates, make sure that they are indeed on-topic, i.e., don't post statistics about people's edits to namespaces unless there is a dissagreement about whether somebody wikilawyers too much. Also, if you want to publish general statistics about individual users &mdash; it's all public information, so you don't really need their permission. But it sure would be polite to ask. Zocky 06:15, 16 May 2005 (UTC)


 * I don't think it takes experience. After over 30,000 edits I have to say this guy is pretty much right in what he's getting at. I didn't figure out the nature of the really big problems we have with the community structure until I'd been around for almost a year (prior to that I thought accusations of "cabalism" were funny and thought admins should be empowered to block trolls!), so I find it impressive that he's caught on so quick. Everyking 08:03, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Statistics
I did some research and I found a statistic that might interest you.

User:Statistics

Edits = 32
 * Article Space = 1 (~ 3%)
 * User space = 12
 * Image space = 10
 * Wikipedia space = 9

Thought you might be interested. You obviously have some statistical expertise, please put it to good use. (As an aside, it's unfair to compare IPs to users since they can be composites of many people and they obviously wouldn't contribute to the wiki space since they don't have a set name to contribute under) Also, I'd be interested to know how you are getting these numbers. I assume you have a bot of some kind (if not I feel bad that you are manually going through all of those archives). [I'm not a memeber of the cabal no matter what Everyking says :)] BrokenSegue 02:36, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Archive of Village Pump threads
I archived two threads to User:Statistics/VP. I believe these were your contributions prior to getting an account, and you pout a lot of work into the information. I just didn't want to see it lost to the page's busy history. -- Netoholic @ 17:21, 2005 Jun 10 (UTC)

Anybody got good stats on editors country of origin ?
Anybody got good stats on editors country of origin ? What % are american ? irish ? israeli ? UK ? etc.--— ⦿⨦⨀Tumadoireacht Talk/Stalk 22:28, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Statistics. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Statistics~enwiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name. If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit Special:MergeAccount to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 02:51, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:12, 22 April 2015 (UTC)