Last modified: 2014-03-24 17:10:26 UTC
The script was introduced in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/99633/ and I'm told it run in about ten seconds on the biggest wikis (i.e. Meta). Excerpt from today's output: Character edit stats for last 30 days in Meta code name edit ----------------------- fr français 283826 es español 115779 de Deutsch 129287 ru русский 61744 zh 中文 34297 cs čeština 68988 it italiano 80120 nl Nederlands 77557 ja 日本語 24699 id Bahasa Indonesia 61601 We currently don't have any stats on translation activity on Wikimedia wikis: having this run every month/week or so would be very useful. Maybe we can make it post the output on some public dir visible from noc.wikimedia.org as Reedy occasionally does for maintenance scripts and then let someone create a bot to copy them on a Meta-Wiki page.
I'll submit a patch for this, just a script somewhere in puppet and a cron to be run on terbium or fenari (wherever noc.wikimedia.org is). Main things I need to figure out: * where to take the list of wikis for which to run the script (probably better to focus just on the main multilingual wikis); * where to output the text exactly: probably, the home of the user running the script, à la https://noc.wikimedia.org/~reedy/ . I'm told the unit of the counts is unclear, but that doesn't matter much as long as the counts are (directly) proportional to the activity (or more specifically, as long as the relation is monotonous): we only care about being able to compare how well we're doing compared to the past.
This sounds like a good idea.
Change 117250 had a related patch set uploaded by Nemo bis: Add cron job to run characterEditStats.php on multilingual wikis weekly https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/117250
Change 117250 merged by Alexandros Kosiaris: Add cron job to run characterEditStats.php on multilingual wikis weekly https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/117250
I also created an explanatory header. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Babylon/Translation_stats/Report> Closing for now, we'll see in a week if it works. :)
