Awesome! Thanks for compiling this, Jon. Out of curiosity,do these numbers
account for reverts?

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Italian Wikipedia recently started an experiment to enable anonymous
> editing for its editors. Many thanks to Florian and Nemo for making
> this happen!
>
> They enabled it on the 1st November so now we have a month of data let
> me state about what we've found.
>
> For the month of November anonymous edits counted for 50% of all edits
> on Italian Wikipedia and increased the average number of edits by
> roughly 55%.
>
> Average edits before switch was 1688
> Average edits after switch was 2619
> Logged in editing took a slight dive as a result of this - 1687 edits
> were coming from logged in users before to 1305
>
> The graph [1] shows not too much impact to the current trend for
> editing from logged in users but it's clear that anonymous editing
> does bring in slightly more edits, but not a radical amount to get us
> excited about.
>
> Florian has recently written a patch that simplifies the workflow for
> editing such that clicking edit loads a screen with anon editing, sign
> in and sign up options. It will be interesting to see if this effects
> the data at all.
>
> Can anyone from the Italian community analyse the types of anonymous
> edits that were made in the month of November and comment on what % of
> those got reverted / were bad edits?
>
> I've included the data [1] (should be public) for anyone to analyse
> and pick apart.
>
> [1]
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1k3QaksUtkSA7s2W-bMhvE8hYF9hT_OBW4tnlZOTb3sw/edit?usp=sharing
>
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