Wikimedia Product/Data glossary

This page collects definitions of core metrics of the Wikimedia Product department which are tracked by the Product Analytics team. The sibling Data Dictionary page documents various data sources.

Core metrics
A set of key metrics designed to give a high-level picture of the movement's health. These are reported monthly to the Wikimedia Foundation board and at Wikimedia_Product, with further analysis in the quarterly metrics & insights presentations.

Content
The code that calculates these metrics can be found in the Editing-movement-metrics repository on Github.

Editors
The code that calculates these metrics can be found in the Editing-movement-metrics repository on Github.

Readers
The code that calculates these metrics can be found in the readers-movement-metrics repository on Github.

Diversity
A set of contributors and readers metrics (defined above), restricted to:


 * Established Market (Global North Countries) and Emerging Market (Global South Countries) : definition (based on the principles here)
 * Mobile-heavy wikis: definition

Platform evolution and structured data metrics
In Platform Evolution, there are 2 metrics that are primarily impacted through Product efforts:


 * Structured data used (uptake) across wikis
 * non-text (e.g.Commons) content used across wikis

In New Knowledge Formats (Worldwide Readership), we are tracking Wikidata items reused on other Wikimedia projects.

These are reported monthly to the Wikimedia Foundation board and at Wikimedia_Product.

The code that calculates these metrics can be found in the Platform-metrics repository on Github.