Global Data and Insights/Movement Data/Equity Landscape/Glossary of Terms

Key Data Terms & Definitions

Label	Description
area	The geographic area association to the metrics, this may be countries or territories, UN subcontinental regions, or UN continental regions.
access	The area's relative rank status in terms of internet and information access. The higher the rank, the more advantaged the area is.
access_growth	The percentile rank of the reference country's annual growth rate for internet and information access for the reference year
access_presence	The percentile rank of the reference country's access to internet and information for the reference year
affiliate_growth	The affiliate growth metric expressed as a percentile rank, based on new affiliate recognitions and categorical development.
affiliate_presence	The percentile rank of affiliates presence in the referenced year and area, drawing on active affiliates, affiliate size, and affiliate tenure metrics
affiliates_leadership	The affiliates leadership percentile rank drawing on the affiliate input measures based on counts, governance, tenure, grants, and size.
country_code	Three-letter country code based on the ISO 3166-1 standard
editor_growth	The percentile rank for annual growth of editors using triangulated editor domain signal metrics for the reference year
editor_population_penetration	The proportion of the number of editors from the reference country's population, ranked
editor_presence	The percentile rank of editors' presence and activity for a given year in the reference country, drawing on editors' presence across Wikimedia projects
editorship	The percentile rank of combined editorship presence and growth signal to produce overall editor engagement metric for the reference year
grantee_growth	This is the grantee growth percentile rank drawing on annualized year-over-year growth rate of grant signal metrics for the reference year
grantee_presence	This is the grantee presence percentile rank drawing on grantee domain metrics for the reference year
grants_leadership	This is the grants leadership percentile rank combineing grantee presence and growth signals to produce a grants leadership metric for the reference year
percent_global_active_editors	The proportion of all monthly active editors who are associated to each geographic area in the reference year
percent_global_editors	The proportion of all monthly editors which are associated to each geographic area in the reference year
population	The area's population expressed as a percentile rank, drawing on population presence and annual growth rate as input metrics for the reference year
population_underrepresentation	The percent rank of the gap between the population and overall_engagment metrics - the higher ranks = more underrepresentation in the Wikimedia ecosystem
reader_growth	The percentile rank for annual growth in readership, drawing on average percentile ranks in growth of monthly pageviews and monthly unique devices
reader_presence	The percentile rank for readership signal metrics for the reference year, averaging percentile ranks in monthly pageviews and monthly unique devices
readership	The percentile rank for overall readership, combining reader presence and growth signals to produce a readership metric for the reference year