Product Analytics/Data products/ptwiki metrics summary Jun2022

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Introduction

The Portuguese Wikipedia community turned off IP editing from October 4, 2020 by a community vote. We published an impact report of turning off IP editing on the health of Portuguese Wikipedia based on the data by June 2021. It has been a year since our last analysis. We’d like to do a follow-up analysis to understand whether what we saw initially with the data matches up with a longer term observation.

In this report, we will go through the metric trends from July 2021 to June 2022, i.e. Foundation's 2021/2022 fiscal year and compare them with the observations in our previous analysis.

Summary

Category	Metrics	Trends by Jun 2021	Trends by Jun 2022
Editors	Number of new accounts	Improved	The surge is over. No change
	Number of active logged-in editors	Improved	Improved
	Retention rate	Improved	No change
Content	Number of reverts	Improved(number decreased)	Improved(number decreased)
	Number of net non-reverted edits	Declined but not significant	Declined
Administration	Number of blocks	Improved(number decreased)	Improved(number decreased)
	Number of protected pages	Improved(number decreased)	Improved(number decreased)
	Number of checkuser checks	No change	Decreased

Impacts on editors

Number of new accounts

The surge of new accounts is shown after the restriction is over. The number of new accounts in FY2021/22 has been back to the level before the restriction.

New accounts

Monthly Average	Quarter
Fiscal year	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
FY2019/20	12489	12487	12873	16059
FY2020/21	12490	14960	16234	16059
FY2021/22	14236	13230	13350	13639
1 year prior compared to 2 years prior	0%	20%	26%	0%
Current year compared to 2 years prior	14%	6%	4%	-15%

Number of active logged-in editors

The improvement of active logged-in editors is consistently shown in FY2021/22. The number of active logged-in editors in FY2021/22 is still higher than the level before the restriction. But the lift in FY2021/22 is much smaller than that in FY2020/21.

Active logged-in editors

Monthly Average	Quarter
Fiscal year	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
FY2019/20	5334	5361	5270	5931
FY2020/21	5733	9436	10410	9839
FY2021/22	9159	8569	8390	8035
1 year prior compared to 2 years prior	7%	76%	98%	66%
Current year compared to 2 years prior	72%	60%	59%	35%

Retention rate

There is not change in the retention rate. It is at the level before the restriction.

Retention rate

Monthly Average	Quarter
Fiscal year	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
FY2019/20	4.54%	5.59%	3.71%	4.56%
FY2020/21	5.18%	6.66%	5.46%	5.07%
FY2021/22	4.92%	4.75%	4.24%	4.44%
1 year prior compared to 2 years prior (percentage diff)	0.64%	1.07%	1.75%	0.51%
Current year compared to 2 years prior (percentage diff)	0.38%	-0.84%	0.53%	-0.12%

Impacts on content

Number of reverts

The improvement in reverts is consistently shown in FY2021/22. The number of reverts in FY2021/22 is still much lower than the level before the restriction.

Reverts

Monthly Average	Quarter
Fiscal year	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
FY2019/20	24418	24457	23423	25441
FY2020/21	25493	13010	13151	13445
FY2021/22	12158	10873	10459	10155
1 year prior compared to 2 years prior	4%	-47%	-44%	-47%
Current year compared to 2 years prior	-50%	-56%	-55%	-60%

Net non-reverted edits

The decline of net non-reverted edits is more obvious in FY2021/22 than in FY2020/21. The number of net non-reverted edits is lower than in all the prior 3 years.

Net non-reverted edits

Monthly Average	Quarter
Fiscal year	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
FY2018/19	178587	165557	182898	194154
FY2019/20	201065	180068	179614	185227
FY2020/21	221765	178422	183290	196546
FY2021/22	178894	165470	164742	166650
1 year prior compared to 2 years prior	10%	-1%	2%	6%
Current year compared to 2 years prior	-11%	-8%	-8%	-10%

Net non-reverted content edits

The decline of net non-reverted content edits is more obvious in FY2021/22 than in FY2020/21. The number of net non-reverted edits is lower than in all the prior 3 years.

Net non-reverted content edits

Monthly Average	Quarter
Fiscal year	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
FY2018/19	133923	125300	134489	147525
FY2019/20	154347	132029	133274	131302
FY2020/21	166647	128616	123728	132535
FY2021/22	120506	109493	111884	113759
1 year prior compared to 2 years prior	8%	-3%	-7%	1%
Current year compared to 2 years prior	-22%	-17%	-16%	-13%

Impacts on administration

Number of blocks

The improvement in the number of blocks is consistently shown in FY2021/22. The number of blocks has stayed at a lower level since the restriction was enabled.

Blocks

Monthly Average	Quarter
Fiscal year	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
FY2019/20	5952	9278	4361	4207
FY2020/21	3596	1274	931	991
FY2021/22	921	833	930	841
1 year prior compared to 2 years prior	-40%	-86%	-79%	-76%
Current year compared to 2 years prior	-85%	-91%	-79%	-80%

Protected pages

The improvement in the number of protected pages is consistently shown in FY2021/22. The number of protected pages stayed at a lower level since the restriction was enabled.

Protected pages

Monthly Average	Quarter
Fiscal year	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
FY2019/20	375	825	468	384
FY2020/21	1045	185	148	232
FY2021/22	134	112	132	137
1 year prior compared to 2 years prior	179%	-78%	-68%	-40%
Current year compared to 2 years prior	-64%	-86%	-72%	-64%

Checkuser checks

The metric is for curiosity observation. The number of checkuser checks is fewer in FY 21/22 than the 2 years prior.

Checkuser checks

Monthly Average	Quarter
Fiscal year	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
FY2019/20	179	227	288	372
FY2020/21	314	381	259	204
FY2021/22	131	188	124	119
1 year prior compared to 2 years prior	75%	68%	-10%	-45%
Current year compared to 2 years prior	-27%	-17%	-57%	-68%