Research talk:Blocks on the English-language Wikipedia
Add topicLatest comment: 11 years ago by 64.40.54.190 in topic Rangeblocks vs. editors
Rangeblocks vs. editors
[edit]I expect this ihas already been thought about, but I would like to see a graph of total number of IP adresses blocked in rangeblocks vs. active editors (5+ edits / month). It would be interesting to know if there is a correlation between rangeblocks and the beginning of the editor decline in mid-2007. Last time I checked was over a year ago and we had close to 11 million IP addresses blocked at that point. 64.40.54.4 06:18, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
- Could be interesting; I'll pull in the active editor numbers and compare against things like open proxy blocks when I've rewritten the code. Thanks for the suggestion! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:59, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks for the note, Oliver. I was curious, so I grabbed editor data from stats:EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm and rangeblock data from en:Wikipedia:Database reports/Range blocks. The rangeblock data only went back to August 2009, so I'm limited by that. Here's a table of the data.
Date Active editors IP's in rangeblocks Aug 2009 38,623 6,727,662 Sep 2009 37,255 6,168,382 Oct 2009 38,517 5,791,864 Nov 2009 37,937 5,662,110 Dec 2009 36,683 6,027,875 Jan 2010 38,656 6,258,678 Feb 2010 37,157 5,791,222 Mar 2010 39,082 6,395,728 Apr 2010 37,848 6,950,324 May 2010 38,218 6,954,356 Jun 2010 35,207 7,262,952 Jul 2010 34,851 6,698,654 Aug 2010 35,446 7,101,194 Sep 2010 33,913 6,743,305 Oct 2010 34,486 7,023,560 Nov 2010 33,887 7,675,024 Dec 2010 33,216 7,606,594 Jan 2011 36,671 7,486,394 Feb 2011 35,679 8,130,442 Mar 2011 37,553 7,784,490 Apr 2011 36,291 6,835,140 May 2011 35,949 7,491,804 Jun 2011 34,768 7,420,234 Jul 2011 34,547 7,308,898 Aug 2011 34,703 7,306,442 Sep 2011 33,814 7,279,378 Oct 2011 34,105 7,059,986 Nov 2011 33,523 7,477,354 Dec 2011 33,221 6,996,072 Jan 2012 34,198 7,248,216 Feb 2012 33,260 7,955,768 Mar 2012 33,673 7,790,740 Apr 2012 33,146 8,573,020 May 2012 33,556 9,318,066 Jun 2012 32,363 9,973,050 Jul 2012 33,304 10,735,998 Aug 2012 33,019 11,409,546 Sep 2012 31,005 11,102,978 Oct 2012 32,417 11,465,195 Nov 2012 32,079 11,579,506 Dec 2012 31,416 11,300,434 Jan 2013 33,283 13,395,414 Feb 2013 31,157 13,450,222 Mar 2013 33,181 14,347,258 Apr 2013 33,368 14,178,926 May 2013 33,072 14,774,552 Jun 2013 30,860 13,902,412 Jul 2013 30,866 14,570,453 Aug 2013 30,879 15,434,306 Sep 2013 28,699 14,884,160 Oct 2013 30,917 15,284,292 Nov 2013 15,928,304
- What I find most interesting—when graphing the data—is that the number of IPs blocked seems to grow exponentially starting around March 2012. It will be interesting to see the graph around mid-2007 when the editor decline started happening. Best. 64.40.54.190 06:14, 5 December 2013 (UTC)