Anti-Harassment Tools/Product analytics/Partial block usage

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Task T253700

Background

Partial blocks have been deployed on all projects for a while now. We want to see how often people use the "Partial block" option on all projects. How many page(s) are people blocked from? Which namespace(s) are people blocked from?

Data timeframe: since the launch of partial blocks ~ 2020-07-31

Schema used: wmf_raw.mediawiki_logging

Number of Partial Blocks on All Projects

The monthly partial block usage was published at dashboard. You also can explore data for each project by selecting projects in the filter section.

Overall, the usage grew significantly year over year. By the end of July, 2020, the monthly partial blocks on all projects varied between 399 and 623. Top 5 projects which have most partial blocks are: enwiki, itwiki, frwiki, ptwiki and dewiki.

Partial Blocks Trend

Top 5 Partial Blocks by Project

Pages Blocked per Submission

By the end of July 2020, people are blocked from total 6395 pages (unique 3729 pages) on all projects. Majority of partial blocks only blocked people from 1 page per submission. It seems that the limit of 10 pages per submission is OK for now.

Number of Pages Users Are Blocked From in One Submission

Number of Pages People Are Partial Blocked From by Project

Wikis Number of Pages itwiki 952 enwiki 784 frwiki 341 dewiki 191 eswiki 118 fawiki 106 zhwiki 100 ptwiki 96 arwiki 87 jawiki 87 ruwiki 73 cswiki 69 plwiki 60 nlwiki 59 enwiktionary 52 ukwiki 51 idwiki 48 ltwiki 48 svwiki 34 elwiki 32 metawiki 26 dewiktionary 23 cawiki 20 kowiki 19 fiwiki 17 hewiki 17 commonswiki 12 viwiki 11 huwiki 10 bnwiki 9 hrwiki 9 lvwiki 9 nowiki 9 ruwiktionary 9 srwiki 8 bgwiki 7 mswiki 7 dawiki 6 rowiki 6 skwiki 6 trwiki 6 plwiktionary 5 simplewiki 5 tewiki 5 azwiki 3 eswiktionary 3 frwiktionary 3 glwiki 3 hywiki 3 ptwikiquote 3 scowiki 3 wikidatawiki 3 enwikiversity 2 mediawikiwiki 2 enwikivoyage 2 etwiki 2 fiwiktionary 2 guwiki 2 nlwiktionary 2 plwikinews 2 plwikiquote 2 svwiktionary 2 thwiki 2 thwikisource 2 thwiktionary 2 incubatorwiki 1 afwiki 1 aswiki 1 barwiki 1 bswiki 1 bxrwiki 1 cswiktionary 1 enwikisource 1 eswikisource 1 euwiki 1 fawikiquote 1 itwiktionary 1 jawikisource 1 kawiki 1 knwiki 1 lmowiki 1 mrwiki 1 plwikisource 1 ruwikisource 1 ruwikivoyage 1 simplewiktionary 1 siwiki 1 tawikisource 1 ukwikivoyage 1 uzwiki 1 vecwiki 1 yowiki 1 zh_yuewiki 1 zhwikisource 1 zhwiktionary 1

Partial Blocks by Namespaces

By the end of July 2020, among all partial blocks by namespace on all projects, namespace 3 (user talk) was blocked 69 times. It makes namespace 3 (user talk) the most often blocked namespace. The other most often blocked namespaces are: 4(project),0 (main),10 (template).

Number of Partial Blocks by Namespaces