Gwern Branwen wrote:
> "User:MBisanz has charted the number of new accounts registered per
> month, which tells a very similar story: March 2007 recorded the
> largest number of new accounts, and the rate of new account creation
> has fallen significantly since then. Declines in activity have also
> been noted, and fretted about, at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship."
>
> My take on this is that all this tells a story of ever fewer people
> joining, and casual editors continuously winding down & leaving. This
> means that the small group of dead-ender hardcore editors will grow as
> a percentage, which may seem like a good thing ('yay, more editors are
> becoming obssessed!') until you consider the larger picture.
>
> (My cynical sarcastic take on this is to thank all the reference nazis
> & deletionists & vandal-fighters; we couldn't've done't without ye!)
>
>
But note that most accounts don't edit _at all, ever_. Account creation
may be the simplest statistic to get, but it is also the most simplistic.
The English Wikipedia is around 10,000 editors, basically.
Charles
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