{"id":293,"date":"2015-04-10T10:06:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T09:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.magnusmanske.de\/?p=293"},"modified":"2015-04-10T10:06:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T09:06:30","slug":"the-games-must-go-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/archives\/293","title":{"rendered":"The games must go on"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I first announced the Wikidata Game<\/a> almost a year ago, it certainly profited from its novelty value. Since then, it has seen a few new sub-games, and quite a number of code patches from others (which doesn’t happen often for my other tools!). But how does the game fare medium-\/long-term?<\/p>\n

With >200K “actions” (distinct game decisions, some of which result in edits on Wikidata) in March 2015 alone (an average of >6.500 actions per day, or one action every 15 seconds), it has certainly dropped from its initial popularity (>30.000 actions\/day over the first ten days), but is still going. Let’s look at the long-term number of actions per sub-game:<\/p>\n

\"2015-03-game\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Most games show the initial “popularity peak”, which does seem to cause the cheapo trend lines I added to point downwards. Some games have started later than others. Some games have ended, because the users have won the game<\/a> (that is, few or no more candidates remained).<\/p>\n

So action numbers are down but stable. But what about distinct user numbers? Let’s look at the “people without birth\/death dates” game as an example:<\/p>\n

\"users_people_no_date\"<\/a>Again, we see the initial peak drop off quickly to ~1\/4 of its initial value; however, the number of distinct players remains between 75 and 100 per month, over the last 7 months.<\/p>\n

All in all, it appears that the Wikidata Game is still in use, and contributing to Wikidata proper, one statement at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I first announced the Wikidata Game almost a year ago, it certainly profited from its novelty value. Since then, it has seen a few new sub-games, and quite a number of code patches from others (which doesn’t happen often for my other tools!). But how does the game fare medium-\/long-term? With >200K “actions” (distinct […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}