Re: [Foundation-l] Increasing the number of new accounts who actually edit

2010-09-27 Thread David Goodman
Based on patrolling thousands of speedies and prod deletions at enWP, of the people whose articles get rejected at enWP, I would say that fewer than 20% of them have even the least likelihood of becoming helpful regular editors. (and I've the reputation of taking an extremely broad view of what

Re: [Foundation-l] Increasing the number of new accounts who actually edit

2010-09-26 Thread emijrp
Hi all; I think we can compare our retention rate with other communities like Wikia. If its retention rate is higher, we can learn from them, otherwise they can learn from us. Also, some months ago I read about a Facebook study which said that Facebook users who edit their profiles in the first

Re: [Foundation-l] Increasing the number of new accounts who actually edit

2010-09-23 Thread Peter Gervai
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 18:49, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: It would take a major effort to get individual wiki communities to And by that you mean communities on enwp? :-) People bite everywhere, and the reasons are the same as well, as you properly pointed out. Enpw is the largest so

[Foundation-l] Increasing the number of new accounts who actually edit

2010-09-22 Thread Lennart Guldbrandsson
Hello, Did you know that less than a third of the users who create an account on English Wikipedia make even *one* edit afterwards? Two-thirds of all new accounts never edit! Interestingly, this percentage vary very much from language version to language version. Now, the question is not: what

Re: [Foundation-l] Increasing the number of new accounts who actually edit

2010-09-22 Thread Andre Engels
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Lennart Guldbrandsson wikihanni...@gmail.com wrote: Did you know that less than a third of the users who create an account on English Wikipedia make even *one* edit afterwards? Two-thirds of all new accounts never edit! Interestingly, this percentage vary very

Re: [Foundation-l] Increasing the number of new accounts who actually edit

2010-09-22 Thread Risker
On 22 September 2010 04:27, Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Lennart Guldbrandsson wikihanni...@gmail.com wrote: Did you know that less than a third of the users who create an account on English Wikipedia make even *one* edit afterwards? Two-thirds

Re: [Foundation-l] Increasing the number of new accounts who actually edit

2010-09-22 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/9/22 Risker risker...@gmail.com: On 22 September 2010 04:27, Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Lennart Guldbrandsson wikihanni...@gmail.com wrote: Did you know that less than a third of the users who create an account on English Wikipedia make

Re: [Foundation-l] Increasing the number of new accounts who actually edit

2010-09-22 Thread Robert Rohde
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: I think Andre is right, and this is the reason for so many non-editing accounts, especially since SUL.  I am sure someone can run a script to determine how many non-editing English WP accounts have a partner editing account on

Re: [Foundation-l] Increasing the number of new accounts who actually edit

2010-09-22 Thread Robert Rohde
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Lennart Guldbrandsson wikihanni...@gmail.com wrote: Did you know that less than a third of the users who create an account on English Wikipedia make even *one* edit afterwards?

Re: [Foundation-l] Increasing the number of new accounts who actually edit

2010-09-22 Thread David Gerard
On 22 September 2010 17:26, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote: Currently, only about 1.1% of account registrations reach the level of 100 edits.  That conversion rate is tiny.  Even if there are many different reasons that such people abandon editing, I have to imagine that a significant

Re: [Foundation-l] Increasing the number of new accounts who actually edit

2010-09-22 Thread Alex
On 9/22/2010 3:55 AM, Lennart Guldbrandsson wrote: Hello, Did you know that less than a third of the users who create an account on English Wikipedia make even *one* edit afterwards? Two-thirds of all new accounts never edit! Interestingly, this percentage vary very much from language

Re: [Foundation-l] Increasing the number of new accounts who actually edit

2010-09-22 Thread Brian J Mingus
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Lennart Guldbrandsson wikihanni...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Did you know that less than a third of the users who create an account on English Wikipedia make even *one* edit afterwards? Two-thirds of all new accounts never edit! Interestingly, this percentage