Community metrics/December 2012

Third issue of the MediaWiki community metrics monthly report!

We have added a section with social media stats. Hopefully next month we will show mediawiki.org data to reflect the documentation work.

There is a big increase in the total amount of lines of code and active contributors. The addition of Kiwix and MediaWiki Editor Engagement Experiments has something to do with this. Probably Ohloh crawled more of the hundreds of repositories we have on file. But underneath this there is the main factor that the MediaWiki community is growing year-to-year!

As a contrast, MediaWiki core got the lowest amount of commits since June 2010 - probably related with the post 1.20.* releases + holidays?

Code
The MediaWiki community includes about 523 (was 506) code contributors active in the past 12 months. A total of 927 (was 884) developers have contributed code to Wikimedia projects since the first MediaWiki commit in April 2003. The total sum appears to be 6,3M (was 5,6M) lines of code.

More: See https://www.ohloh.net/orgs/wikimedia

MediaWiki core
MediaWiki core is the largest project by far, with 932,270 (was 925,424) lines of code written by a total of 344 (was 338) contributors, from which 155 (was 150) have been active in the past 12 months.

Last month
 * 390 (was 490) commits, the lowest since June 2010.
 * Code contributions came from 55 (was 54) contributors, including 5 new (was 7) potential contributors.

12 months
 * 6777 (was 6898) commits, down -532 (was -472) (7%, was 6%) from previous 12 months. The decrease probably is due to the different approach to commits on SVN (past) vs Git (now). Nothing to worry about, apparently.
 * 155 (was 150) contributors, up +74 (was +70) (91%, was 87%) 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.

Source: https://www.ohloh.net/p/mediawiki

Supported extensions
''At the moment of publishing this report Ohloh hasn't refreshed the data for December. The problem has been reported. We will update this section when the new data is available.''

Source: https://www.ohloh.net/p/mediawiki-extensions-wmf

Other hosted extensions
Aggregated data from additional 295 extensions (=) hosted at gerrit.wikimedia.org. 1,173,902 (was 1,142,952) LOC written by 276 (was 268) contributors.

Last month
 * 2251 (was 2364) commits.
 * 55 (was 68) contributors, including 6 new (was 11) potential contributors.

12 months
 * 21755 (was 21109) commits, up +10456 (was +10954) (92%, was 107%) from previous 12 months.
 * 199 (was 195) contributors, up +106 (was +111) (113%, was 132%) from previous 12 months.

Source: https://www.ohloh.net/p/mediawiki-extensions-wmf-hosted

Top 10 projects
Summary of activity over the last 30 days of the 10 projects with most commits over the past 12 months.


 * 1) MediaWiki: 390 (was 490) commits by 55 (was 54) contributors, including 5 probably new (was 7).
 * 2) Wikimedia Puppet: 487 (was 527) commits by 23 (=) contributors, including 3 probably new (=).
 * 3) Wikibase: 391 (was 686) commits by 16 (was 23) contributors.
 * 4) mwEmbed: 143 (was 140) commits by 5 (was 4) contributors.
 * 5) Parsoid: 170 (was 250) commits by 5 (=) contributors, including 1 probably new.
 * 6) Visual Editor: 197 (was 166) commits by 10 (was 9) contributors.
 * 7) (added) Kiwix: 52 (was 86) commits by 2 (=) contributors.
 * 8) (was 7) Wiktionary Mobile: 3 (was 2) commits by 1 (=) contributor.
 * 9) (was 8) Wikipedia Mobile: 12 (was 17) commits (was 76) by 2 (was 3) contributors.
 * 10) (was 9) Education Program: 30 (was 32) commits by 4 (=) contributors.

Source: https://www.ohloh.net/orgs/wikimedia/projects

Open bugs
Graph: NEW - ASSIGNED - RESOLVED over time.

Enhancement requests are not included.

Stalled
Enhancement requests are not included.

2320 (was 2315) reports never got any feedback...
 * After 3 months: 702 (was 833) bug reports + 768 (was 811) enhancement requests.
 * After 1 year: 272 (was 259) bugs + 502 (was 490) requests.
 * After 3 years: 21 (=) bugs + 32 (was 31) requests.

People

 * 16.490 (was 16.377) accounts, from which 388 (was 441) were active last month.

Social media
 Twitter 


 * 196 followers since 2011-09-23.
 * 11 tweets and 11 retweets this month
 * Most retweeted: 10 people - MediaWiki-India mailing list created. All technical volunteers welcome!
 * Most favorited: 2 people - New @wikisignpost technology report: Efforts to "normalise" Toolserver relations stepped up

 Facebook 


 * 54 likes since 2012-12-19.
 * 10 posts this month.
 * Most viewed: 45 people - Wikimedia Foundation is looking for: Software Engineer (Apps)
 * Link most clicked: 11 people - New technology report by The Signpost: Efforts to "normalise" Toolserver relations stepped up
 * Most talking about this: 6 people - Meet the Echo development team on Jan 8 and learn about the upcoming notifications framework for Wikipedia
 * Maximum weekly total reach: 551 people.
 * Maximum weekly total talking about this: 30 people.

 identi.ca 


 * 17 followers since 2011-09-22.
 * 10 dents and 6 repeats this month.
 * 208 members subscribed to the MediaWiki group.
 * 7 dents this month.

 Google+ 


 * Circled by 6 people since 2012-12-20.
 * +8
 * 7 posts and 2 reshares this month.
 * Most shared: 4 people - Wikimedia Foundation is looking for: Software Engineer (Search)
 * Most liked: 4 posts obtained +1.

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