Topic on Talk:New Developers/Quarterly/2017-10

Wrong number corrected; clarified legend of graph as it already does display what is proposed here.

I cannot map the numbers shown in the graph with the numbers seen in the page following the link. However, the graph seems to be counting number of contributions. Wouldn't it be more useful to count number of developers?

FICTIONAL EXAMPLE: If 2 developers contribute 10 patches each to Wikipedia Android app and 10 developers contribute 2 patches each to MediaWiki Core, both make a total of 20 patches, but it is a lot more interesting to see that MediaWiki Core got 10 newcomers.

Focusing on people rather than patches also diminishes the problem of comparing patches by complexity. Instead, the complexity of attracting a new developer is quite comparable across people and projects.

@AKlapper (WMF)

@Qgil-WMF Uh, thanks. Indeed 25 instead of 28 repositories. That's because excluding staff not marked as volunteers is... still WIP as I ran into new puzzling data corruption issues yesterday night (I already reported them to Bitergia).

The graph counts what you expect it to count: 51 developers contributed to 25 repos. It does not count the number of contributions. The number of contributions is shown in the "New Authors" list widget. If you click on the 3rd biggest item in the pie chart (apps/android/wikipedia with a value of 3), you will see 3 authors listed under "New Authors". With in total 24 contributions. (That the list of "new Authors" still includes staff is a different issue I still need to solve, see my second sentence in this comment.)

I have adjusted the legend under User:SSethi (WMF)/New Developers Quarterly Report (July - September 2017)#Projects with most received contributions by new developers

So I guess this is resolved.

I still find the title confusing. Why not simply "Projects with most new volunteers"?

Yeah, good point. Done.