Account Creation

How many permanent local accounts are created on Swedish Wikipedia, how many ever make a publicly attributable edit, and how many remain indefinitely locally blocked? This staging metric follows each monthly registration cohort through the complete selected history snapshot.

Latest cohort

Ever edited

across observed cohorts

Temporary accounts excluded

kept outside permanent cohorts

Account creations across time

Indefinitely locally blocked accounts

Created accounts with and without edits

Definition and limitations

Accounts created = Accounts with edits + Accounts without edits

The Account scope filter applies before monthly cohorts are grouped into quarters or years and affects every account KPI, graph, tooltip, and CSV on this page. “Exclude indefinitely blocked” subtracts the exact blocked-with-edits and blocked-without-edits subsets, preserving the displayed cohort identity Accounts created = Accounts with edits + Accounts without edits. Temporary accounts remain excluded under either setting.

Account creation comes from Wikimedia's snapshot-pinned newusers logging records. When the dump contains repeated creation records for one stable local user ID, the earliest observed creation month is used once. Legacy records without a target ID use the unique creation-log ID and target username, and are matched to revisions by historical or current username. Redacted legacy records without any public target identity are counted as creations but cannot match an edit or block.

“Indefinitely locally blocked” means the latest matching public local block, reblock, or unblock transition at the cutoff leaves an indefinite block in force. It is not a claim that the account is community-banned or globally locked/blocked, and it can include indefinite partial blocks. Hidden targets and username histories unavailable in public data cannot be matched.

“Without edits” means no matching public revision through , not necessarily no private, suppressed, renamed, or future activity. Temporary accounts and later duplicate stable-ID records are excluded from every permanent-account cohort. Logging coverage begins when the wiki's public account-creation log becomes available.

Source: svwiki logging dump ${report.logging_dump_date} · history snapshot ${report.snapshot} · algorithm ${report.metric_version} · license ${report.license_spdx}.