I'm not an analyst, but I was looking at this out of curiosity and noticed
that anon users dropped by almost the same number that logged-in users rose:

https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/contributing/active-editors/normal|line|1-year|editor_type~anonymous*user|monthly

Maybe people are logging in more?

On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 1:56 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]>
wrote:

> The English Wikipedia is showing a pattern that I don't notice on
> several other wikis. If I'm not mistaken, in April 2020 monthly active
> editors passed 43k for the first time since 2011 (the year when
> MobileFrontend was created).
> <
> https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/contributing/active-editors/normal|line|all|editor_type~user|monthly
> >
>
> (As usual there will be a deflation of the number in a few months, after
> the deletions have run their course. The 43k threshold may still hold.)
>
> The April peak looks like it continued and reinforced one of the
> now-usual October/January/March peaks. Do we know how much of this
> growth is organic or across the board and how much is amplification of
> existing known seasonal patterns (WikiEdu?).
>
> Federico
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