Hi!
Thanks everyone for their help and suggestions.
I was pointed to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:New_editor which
is an extensive research on the topic and has exactly the information I was
looking for!
Thanks
srijan

On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Leila Zia <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Srijan,
>
> I don't know of any place you can get this information immediately. You
> can use couple of tables to get the information you need (more accurately).
>
> You can use centralauth.globaluser to get the gu_id (global user id), 
> gu_registration,
> and gu_home_db. You can then use enwiki.user_daily_contribs to find which
> one of those users have done at least one edit after registration. You
> don't need to look too far after the registration date for the first edit
> activity. If someone has opened an account and has done no edit in the
> first 7 days (I look at 2 days for rough estimations), you can safely
> assume that the account won't have edits.
>
> If you compute this number, please update this thread so we know what the
> answer is. Thanks! :-)
>
> Leila
>
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Srijan Kumar <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I am looking for the average number of Wikipedians who register on
>> English Wikipedia per month, and make at least one edit. Is there any such
>> information?
>> http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/new_editors has similar
>> information, but quite what I am looking for.
>>
>> Thanks. Any pointers are appreciated!
>> Srijan
>>
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