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All the language variations of the "own work" comment could reasonably be listed and queried. However, the customization of the "third party" comment with two variables makes identifying all files upload that way non-trivial. First, the <code>comment</code> table would need to be queried to get all <code>comment_id</code>s for all the comments using the pattern of the message (and all its translations), and then the <code>logging</code> table would need to be queried to count the number of uploads that match this (presumably large) number of comments.
All the language variations of the "own work" comment could reasonably be listed and queried. However, the customization of the "third party" comment with two variables makes identifying all files upload that way non-trivial. First, the <code>comment</code> table would need to be queried to get all <code>comment_id</code>s for all the comments using the pattern of the message (and all its translations), and then the <code>logging</code> table would need to be queried to count the number of uploads that match this (presumably large) number of comments.


== Combined approach ==
== Log comment approach ==


If we ignore the 2020 changes for now, let's try to adapt Steinsplitter's method to use the <code>logging</code> and <code>comment</code> tables. [[quarry:query/41469|query/41469]] identifies <code>comment_text = "User created page with UploadWizard"</code> as <code>comment_id = 44</code>. Although it takes a while to count (11 minutes), as of March 23, 2025, [[quarry:query/42024|query/42024]] yields a count of 20,231,572. The same query run by [[User:Reedy]] on October 5, 2020 yielded a count of 20,231,414, confirming that the count has barely changed, due to the comment message changing in the software around that date.
If we ignore the 2020 changes for now, let's try to adapt Steinsplitter's method to use the <code>logging</code> and <code>comment</code> tables. [[quarry:query/41469|query/41469]] identifies <code>comment_text = "User created page with UploadWizard"</code> as <code>comment_id = 44</code>. Although it takes a while to count (11 minutes), as of March 23, 2025, [[quarry:query/42024|query/42024]] yields a count of 20,231,572. The same query run by [[User:Reedy]] on October 5, 2020 yielded a count of 20,231,414, confirming that the count has barely changed, due to the comment message changing in the software around that date.
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Charting these results ([[c:Data:UploadWizard monthly uploads.tab|data file]]) shows [[c:Data:UploadWizard monthly uploads.chart|nice, very visible spikes]] every September, which is the month of Wiki Loves Monuments!
Charting these results ([[c:Data:UploadWizard monthly uploads.tab|data file]]) shows [[c:Data:UploadWizard monthly uploads.chart|nice, very visible spikes]] every September, which is the month of Wiki Loves Monuments!

== Number of contributors ==

* [[quarry:query/92204|query/92204]] (67 minutes): Partial number of unique users of UploadWizard (not counting early uploads yet): '''1,805,759 unique users'''
* This uses the earlier detection methods (log comments), needs to be redone with the new detection methods (see below).


== Uploads between 2010 and 2012 ==
== Uploads between 2010 and 2012 ==
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* [[phab:T121872]]
* [[phab:T121872]]
* [[gerrit:337566]]
* [[gerrit:337566]]
* first timestamp with uploadwizard tag ([[quarry:query/92206|query/92206]]) is 20170510194757 ; this means we can use the tag for uploads after that date, and we don't have to use the 2020-and-later upload comment <code>Uploaded own work with UploadWizard</code> or (more importantly, for performance reasons) the regex <code>'^Uploaded a work by .+ from .+ with UploadWizard$'</code>.
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* first timestamp with uploadwizard tag: [[quarry:query/92206|query/92206]]


== Number of contributors ==
== Final analysis ==

=== Boundaries ===
The timestamps will help us avoid overlaps
* [[quarry:query/92207|query/92207]]: 20120823203303

We can therefore summarize our boundaries and detection methods this way:
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!timestamp
!Time period
!Detection method
|-
|??
([[quarry:query/92208|query/92208]])
|?? to 2012-08-23
|pages later edited with rev_comment_id = 33984 (removal of UploadWizard category by bot)
|-
|20120823203303
([[quarry:query/92207|query/92207]])
|from 2012-08-23 to 2017-05-10
|log_comment_id = 44 (<code>"User created page with UploadWizard"</code>)
|-
|20170510194757
⚫
([[quarry:query/92206|query/92206]])
|after 2017-05-10
|change_tag → ctd_name = 'uploadwizard'
|}

=== Uploads over time ===
(this also gives us the

and for updates to the total count and the monthly tallies, we can simply focus on the uploadwizard tag method going forward

* [[quarry:query/92209|query/92209]]: All UploadWizard uploads by month

=== Number of UploadWizard contributors ===

For this, we'll have to run the full query for every future updates because we need to deduplicate users across all 3 detection methods.

* [[quarry:query/92210|query/92210]]: Total number of UploadWizard Users

== Post-2020 uploads with log_comment_id = 44 ==

Let's investigate the uploads after the message was replaced by the two other patterns in 2020

* [[quarry:query/92212|query/92212]]: Timestamp of first UploadWizard upload with log_comment_id = 144143204 is 20200304141603
* [[quarry:query/92211|query/92211]]: Post-2020 uploads with log_comment_id = 44

Examples:
* [[c:File:Cambacérès, Bonaparte et Lebrun membres du consulat en 1799.jpg]]
* [[c:File:União da Ilha do Governador 1991 - Wigder Frota.jpg]]
* [[c:File:Frederick, Prince of Wales (cropped).jpg]]

Revision as of 02:46, 28 March 2025

I'm trying to estimate the number of files uploaded using UploadWizard. To my knowledge there is no easy way to measure this, so this page describes my attempt to find a way.

Previous attempts

There used to be a hidden category, Category:Uploaded with UploadWizard, automatically added by UploadWizard during upload. This was an easy way to track the main metric (number of files uploaded) but the Commons community decided to delete it because it didn't serve a purpose, as "UploadWizard is the default mode of upload" and "This category is like having an 'Articles created using the Edit Button' category on Wikipedia." A comment in this discussion notes that as of August 2016, the category contained around 9 million files.

Another way was to query the Commons database (or rather a copy, using Quarry) and look for log actions for uploads with the content "User created page with UploadWizard", which was also automatically set by UploadWizard during upload (example). This approach was used by User:Steinsplitter on October 16, 2016 and yielded a count of 10,228,537.

Current problem

The method used by Steinsplitter is no longer reliable for several reasons:

All the language variations of the "own work" comment could reasonably be listed and queried. However, the customization of the "third party" comment with two variables makes identifying all files upload that way non-trivial. First, the comment table would need to be queried to get all comment_ids for all the comments using the pattern of the message (and all its translations), and then the logging table would need to be queried to count the number of uploads that match this (presumably large) number of comments.

Log comment approach

If we ignore the 2020 changes for now, let's try to adapt Steinsplitter's method to use the logging and comment tables. query/41469 identifies comment_text = "User created page with UploadWizard" as comment_id = 44. Although it takes a while to count (11 minutes), as of March 23, 2025, query/42024 yields a count of 20,231,572. The same query run by User:Reedy on October 5, 2020 yielded a count of 20,231,414, confirming that the count has barely changed, due to the comment message changing in the software around that date.

If we now explore the new comment messages, query/91991 identifies comment_text = "Uploaded own work with UploadWizard" as comment_id = 144143204. As of March 23, 2025, query/42025 runs for ~10 minutes and yields a count of 14,118,636 files uploaded with that comment. This brings the total of files uploaded with UploadWizard to a minimum of 20,231,572 + 14,118,636 = 34,350,208, so around 30% of all 116,784,255 files on Commons.

Let's see if the comment translations are actually used. In my experience, Spanish-language contributors often prefer to set their interface to Spanish, so Spanish is a good language to test if the comment is actually ever translated. In query/91992 we look for the comment_id corresponding to comment_text = "Trabajo propio subido con el Asistente de subidas" (per translatewiki:MediaWiki:Mwe-upwiz-upload-comment-own-work/es). The query returns no result, meaning that the translated comment can't be found. query/91993 shows a similar result for the French translation. On further inspection, the original code commit for the message change confirms that "These messages are localized server-side in order to use the wiki's language, not the user's language" (gerrit:625864)

If we don't have to take into account translated messages, this dramatically simplifies the count for own-work uploads, and brings counting third-party uploads back into the realm of the possible. Let's see if we could count third-party works.

Looking at the second post-2020 comment message, query/91995 attempts to get all comment_ids for comment_text matching the regex '^Uploaded a work by .+ from .+ with UploadWizard$', and yields 3,136,590 entries after running for 51 minutes.

Until we can count how many files were uploaded for each comment_id, we know that at least one file was uploaded for each comment. This brings the total of files uploaded with UploadWizard to a minimum of 34,350,208 + 3,136,590 = 37,486,798, so around 32% of all files on Commons.

Evolution over time

Let's see if we can count the number of files uploaded with UploadWizard over time. It would be nice to make a chart, and we might even be able to see spikes for large contribution campaigns like Wiki Loves Monuments if we break down by month. We'll have to combine counts for the 3 different upload comment patterns identified above.

Breakdown by year

Let's start with yearly counts. query/92164 provides the breakdown by year for the original upload comment until October 2020 (User created page with UploadWizard), query/92165 the breakdown for own works from 2020 (Uploaded own work with UploadWizard), and query/92166 the breakdown for own works from 2020 (regex '^Uploaded a work by .+ from .+ with UploadWizard$'). The results are tabulated below.

upload_year upload_count

(User created page with UploadWizard) (query/92164)

upload_count

(Uploaded own work with UploadWizard) (query/92165)

upload_count

('^Uploaded a work by .+ from .+ with UploadWizard$') (query/92166)

upload_count (total)
2012 840273 840273
2013 2118570 2118570
2014 2507717 2507717
2015 2647913 2647913
2016 2608031 2608031
2017 2895540 2895540
2018 3024205 3024205
2019 3075870 3075870
2020 513263 2087611 598798 3199672
2021 111 2520956 803090 3324157
2022 25 2690304 790337 3480666
2023 50 2986794 1058862 4045706
2024 1 3103117 979511 4082629
2025 (up to March) 4 779291 205874 985169
all time 20,231,573 14,168,073 4,436,472 38,836,118

Some observations:

  • We took this opportunity to properly count all uploads with the third comment pattern (the regex '^Uploaded a work by .+ from .+ with UploadWizard$', ) and got a total of 4,436,472, which brings the total of files uploaded with UploadWizard to a minimum of 38,836,118.
  • The breakdown by year starts in 2012, which is concerning. UploadWizard was deployed to Commons in beta in 2010, and as the main upload interface in 2011. It's possible that the upload comment message wasn't added until 2012, which would mean we're missing over a year's worth of data.
  • It's also curious that we have files with the old message in the years after 2020 and up to 2025. This requires further investigation, but let's first take a look at the breakdown by month.

Breakdown by month

Let's break it down by month:

upload_month upload_count

(User created page with UploadWizard) (query/92168)

upload_count

(Uploaded own work with UploadWizard) (query/92167)

upload_count ('^Uploaded a work by .+ from .+ with UploadWizard$')

(query/92203)

upload_count (total)
2012-08-31 31154 31154
2012-09-30 423680 423680
2012-10-31 148209 148209
2012-11-30 122685 122685
2012-12-31 114545 114545
2013-01-31 125211 125211
2013-02-28 120502 120502
2013-03-31 131330 131330
2013-04-30 145044 145044
2013-05-31 170437 170437
2013-06-30 152843 152843
2013-07-31 164438 164438
2013-08-31 173549 173549
2013-09-30 468730 468730
2013-10-31 166780 166780
2013-11-30 148827 148827
2013-12-31 150879 150879
2014-01-31 162282 162282
2014-02-28 156435 156435
2014-03-31 183458 183458
2014-04-30 177654 177654
2014-05-31 240287 240287
2014-06-30 179651 179651
2014-07-31 175011 175011
2014-08-31 196834 196834
2014-09-30 414755 414755
2014-10-31 270995 270995
2014-11-30 184402 184402
2014-12-31 165953 165953
2015-01-31 168781 168781
2015-02-28 174220 174220
2015-03-31 205279 205279
2015-04-30 189857 189857
2015-05-31 306529 306529
2015-06-30 218902 218902
2015-07-31 206162 206162
2015-08-31 218577 218577
2015-09-30 394290 394290
2015-10-31 220380 220380
2015-11-30 180760 180760
2015-12-31 164176 164176
2016-01-31 162122 162122
2016-02-29 154465 154465
2016-03-31 178055 178055
2016-04-30 192188 192188
2016-05-31 264177 264177
2016-06-30 231859 231859
2016-07-31 196906 196906
2016-08-31 219677 219677
2016-09-30 441282 441282
2016-10-31 210406 210406
2016-11-30 176574 176574
2016-12-31 180320 180320
2017-01-31 189767 189767
2017-02-28 175423 175423
2017-03-31 201818 201818
2017-04-30 219977 219977
2017-05-31 305834 305834
2017-06-30 261426 261426
2017-07-31 211190 211190
2017-08-31 239974 239974
2017-09-30 437621 437621
2017-10-31 234242 234242
2017-11-30 222166 222166
2017-12-31 196102 196102
2018-01-31 202578 202578
2018-02-28 211861 211861
2018-03-31 219672 219672
2018-04-30 227838 227838
2018-05-31 313746 313746
2018-06-30 244249 244249
2018-07-31 234726 234726
2018-08-31 238016 238016
2018-09-30 454189 454189
2018-10-31 266254 266254
2018-11-30 204673 204673
2018-12-31 206403 206403
2019-01-31 214757 214757
2019-02-28 236267 236267
2019-03-31 247818 247818
2019-04-30 225782 225782
2019-05-31 311503 311503
2019-06-30 252651 252651
2019-07-31 240456 240456
2019-08-31 236220 236220
2019-09-30 428250 428250
2019-10-31 236568 236568
2019-11-30 222327 222327
2019-12-31 223271 223271
2020-01-31 235188 235188
2020-02-29 247295 247295
2020-03-31 30716 149853 64811 245380
2020-04-30 1 175078 76046 251125
2020-05-31 34 207037 80839 287910
2020-06-30 8 201967 53302 255277
2020-07-31 221848 47805 269653
2020-08-31 3 190197 55765 245965
2020-09-30 9 346647 45290 391946
2020-10-31 1 242662 57510 300173
2020-11-30 3 180792 58935 239730
2020-12-31 5 171530 58495 230030
2021-01-31 1 202500 63469 265970
2021-02-28 167393 63596 230989
2021-03-31 1 204365 70694 275060
2021-04-30 215591 78477 294068
2021-05-31 2 222428 69788 292218
2021-06-30 3 213424 77422 290849
2021-07-31 9 192787 61024 253820
2021-08-31 9 217760 66433 284202
2021-09-30 301713 66939 368652
2021-10-31 220434 66178 286612
2021-11-30 185093 60935 246028
2021-12-31 86 177468 58135 235689
2022-01-31 199614 74524 274138
2022-02-28 167138 69172 236310
2022-03-31 211900 62654 274554
2022-04-30 203873 63514 267387
2022-05-31 237919 66754 304673
2022-06-30 1 239714 59629 299344
2022-07-31 1 248807 58186 306994
2022-08-31 18 235854 59097 294969
2022-09-30 2 304853 59856 364711
2022-10-31 1 235687 61644 297332
2022-11-30 2 201640 78035 279677
2022-12-31 203305 77272 280577
2023-01-31 8 197215 65923 263146
2023-02-28 3 201681 71697 273381
2023-03-31 21 223063 87173 310257
2023-04-30 234738 79114 313852
2023-05-31 1 249348 74139 323488
2023-06-30 11 245198 84860 330069
2023-07-31 1 281165 83781 364947
2023-08-31 1 265888 78147 344036
2023-09-30 2 346333 122197 468532
2023-10-31 290008 132702 422710
2023-11-30 227178 100530 327708
2023-12-31 2 224979 78599 303580
2024-01-31 209808 109202 319010
2024-02-29 216116 64774 280890
2024-03-31 1 257500 74657 332158
2024-04-30 241950 68263 310213
2024-05-31 251723 72876 324599
2024-06-30 259635 103594 363229
2024-07-31 301447 83653 385100
2024-08-31 249734 90924 340658
2024-09-30 358738 103016 461754
2024-10-31 310661 82000 392661
2024-11-30 222455 59265 281720
2024-12-31 223350 67287 290637
2025-01-31 225721 65512 291233
2025-02-28 265324 80391 345715
2025-03-31 4 288373 59999 348376

Charting these results (data file) shows nice, very visible spikes every September, which is the month of Wiki Loves Monuments!

Number of contributors

  • query/92204 (67 minutes): Partial number of unique users of UploadWizard (not counting early uploads yet): 1,805,759 unique users
  • This uses the earlier detection methods (log comments), needs to be redone with the new detection methods (see below).

Uploads between 2010 and 2012

Further research indicates that the upload message used from 2012 to 2020 was first introduced in August 2012 in gerrit:9714. Prior to August 2012, the message read User created page with UploadWizard (alpha) , which might have given us a fourth message pattern to find files uploaded with UploadWizard between 2010 and 2012.

Unfortunately, the same code commit shows that the early "alpha" message wasn't recorded as a comment during the upload. This is confirmed by query/92174 , which yields no comment_id for comment_text = "User created page with UploadWizard (alpha)"

Checking some of my own UploadWizard uploads from that period (December 2010, March 2012), I can confirm that they have no log comment or initial edit summary. Their history confirms that I uploaded them with UploadWizard, since the category Uploaded with UploadWizard was removed by a bot in 2016, when the Commons community decided to get rid of the category (the same unfortunate decision that started me on this whole wikiarchaeology expedition in the first place).

The category removal might give us another way to identify early files uploaded with UploadWizard between 2010 and 2012: they will contain an entry in their edit history with the mention "Category:Uploaded with UploadWizard removed per community decision". We can count those files, making sure to exclude those we have already counted using the log comment.

Using the image I uploaded in December 2010 as a starting point, we can get the comment ID from the history entry where the bot removed the category, which is faster than browsing the comment table to match the edit's summary text. query/92177 gets the rev_comment_id for that history entry in the revision table, and query/92193 verifies that it corresponds to the comment_text = Category:Uploaded with UploadWizard removed per [[Commons:Categories for discussion/2016/08/Category:Uploaded with UploadWizard|community decision]]". Now let's count them, minus the files uploaded once there was a log comment.

  • query/92202: Number of files uploaded with UploadWizard before it provided a log comment
  • query/92201: Number of files uploaded with UploadWizard before it provided a log comment, by month

uploadwizard tag

  • phab:T142687
  • phab:T121872
  • gerrit:337566
  • first timestamp with uploadwizard tag (query/92206) is 20170510194757 ; this means we can use the tag for uploads after that date, and we don't have to use the 2020-and-later upload comment Uploaded own work with UploadWizard or (more importantly, for performance reasons) the regex '^Uploaded a work by .+ from .+ with UploadWizard$'.

Final analysis

Boundaries

The timestamps will help us avoid overlaps

We can therefore summarize our boundaries and detection methods this way:

timestamp Time period Detection method
??

(query/92208)

?? to 2012-08-23 pages later edited with rev_comment_id = 33984 (removal of UploadWizard category by bot)
20120823203303

(query/92207)

from 2012-08-23 to 2017-05-10 log_comment_id = 44 ("User created page with UploadWizard")
20170510194757

(query/92206)

after 2017-05-10 change_tag → ctd_name = 'uploadwizard'

Uploads over time

(this also gives us the

and for updates to the total count and the monthly tallies, we can simply focus on the uploadwizard tag method going forward

Number of UploadWizard contributors

For this, we'll have to run the full query for every future updates because we need to deduplicate users across all 3 detection methods.

Post-2020 uploads with log_comment_id = 44

Let's investigate the uploads after the message was replaced by the two other patterns in 2020

  • query/92212: Timestamp of first UploadWizard upload with log_comment_id = 144143204 is 20200304141603
  • query/92211: Post-2020 uploads with log_comment_id = 44

Examples:

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