I don't at all want to discourage improvements, the efforts of the WWG,
etc, but at the same time we have to be clear that this kind of ratio
is pretty common amongst crowd sourced projects. For example, if you look
at English Wikipedia's stats, there are over 800K "wikipedians" (and
note, they've made at least 10 edits; I couldn't find stats that
included users with fewer total edits). Of them, only about 30000 make at
least 5 edits in any given month. For the details, see
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm
Regards, Brad
On Friday, April 12, 2013, Johan C wrote:
> OSM has got over 1,1 million registered users now. About 20.000 of them
> frequently make edits. There's still a lot of opportunities here, because
> all registered users at least have some interest in OSM. The question is:
> how do we unlock this giant community potential?
>
> Cheers, Johan
>
>
> 2013/4/12 Jean-Marc Liotier <j...@liotier.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'j...@liotier.org');>>
>
>> Looking at the profiles of nearby mappers displayed on my profile page's
>> map, I am astonished to find that most of them have made zero edits.
>> Those people went through the effort of registering (some even added an
>> avatar picture) but then did not use their account for anything - no edits,
>> no traces, nothing. Why ? Are these mere spam registrations or are we
>> actually losing good potential mappers in the first hours of their life
>> as Openstreetmap users ? How many of them do we have ? Do we have logs
>> that we can analyze to understand how they came to Openstreetmap and how
>> they dropped out ?
>>
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