Talk:Community metrics/October 2012

Sumana says: "I know that thedj, Ori, Tychay, and ankur are NOT new contributors as of last month"

New Contributors
"'139 contributors, up +64 (85%) from previous 12 months. WMF hires and Git adoption might seem to be the main causes of this great increase. Some cases of multiple email addresses for one contributors are also suspected / expected. Still, it's a clear YoY increase.'"

I'd be interested to see how many of these +64 are actually new, non-WMF contributors. I'd also like to see the stats on new contributor growth after the switch to git. Seems like there should be some way to generate that on the site but I can't find any documentation on how their search/filter box works. --Cneubauer (talk) 12:37, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
 * The only way now to know about the new & non-WMF contributors is to go through this list. I counted 83 with a first commit done in the past 12 months. Some of those might correspond to new email addresses of old contributors. And it would take someone knowing all the WMF staff to know which ones are employees. Hopefully this changes over time as we pay more attention to top & new contributors, making sure their commits are properly claimed and affiliated. The MediaWiki page in Ohloh has a "Contributors per Month" graph and you an roll over with your mouse to see the values of each month. It does sow a clear increase after March-April, when Gerrit was deployed. Although some of that increase might come from new email addresses from current developers. Again, the data will get corrected as developers claim their work properly through their Ohloh profiles. PS: There is also an Ohloh API to retrieve data but I haven't got time (neither clear requirements) to look into it.--Qgil (talk) 16:28, 1 November 2012 (UTC)