Re: [Wikimedia-l] User retention statistics?

2012-04-22 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Thank you all for the replies, I need some time to process this information. Cheers Yaroslav 1. What is the average lifetime of a Wikipedia editor (for instance the one with at leat 1000 contributions)? I recollect smth about two years, but I am pretty sure I have never seen any research on t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] User retention statistics?

2012-04-19 Thread emijrp
This thread is a good candidate for wiki-research-l. Forwarding... 2012/4/18 Yaroslav M. Blanter > My message is inspired by discussion in this thread ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Wikipedia:Administrators%27_** > noticeboard#Loss_of_more_and_**more_and_more_established_** > editors_and_adm

Re: [Wikimedia-l] User retention statistics?

2012-04-19 Thread Hubert
Fastily is still active on Commons. h Am 19.04.2012 01:40, schrieb Robert Rohde: > PS. This story was triggered by Fastily's retirement. He has 46000 > edits on enwiki, and only about 620 editors have reached that plateau. > Of these, 90% are still active. So such retirements are relatively >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] User retention statistics?

2012-04-18 Thread Robert Rohde
PS. This story was triggered by Fastily's retirement. He has 46000 edits on enwiki, and only about 620 editors have reached that plateau. Of these, 90% are still active. So such retirements are relatively rare. Personally, I hope he decides to come back after taking some time to relax and recha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] User retention statistics?

2012-04-18 Thread Robert Rohde
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > 1. What is the average lifetime of a Wikipedia editor (for instance the one > with at leat 1000 contributions)? I recollect smth about two years, but I am > pretty sure I have never seen any research on this. How does it depend on >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] User retention statistics?

2012-04-18 Thread Risker
Perhaps this page, with results, might be helpful as well: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Community_Health/Survey Risker On 18 April 2012 17:22, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > Yaroslav - > > You'll probably find background for some of this on the strategy wiki - > that's the communi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] User retention statistics?

2012-04-18 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Yaroslav - You'll probably find background for some of this on the strategy wiki - that's the community health group that you're thinking about. :-) This is a survey in particular that might interest you: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Community_Health/Former_contributors_survey A