On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Ian Woollard <ian.wooll...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> There's no great drop in the number of editors: >> >> >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ENglish_Wikipedia_active_users_%28September_2011%29.png >> > > > See > > http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm > > Editors making 100+ edits a month in English Wikipedia were at 5,000+ in > early 2007, and are now down to less than 3,500. > > German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Polish core editor numbers are > stable, on the other hand: > > http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaDE.htm > http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaFR.htm > http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaES.htm > http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaPT.htm > http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaPL.htm > > Russian is booming: > > http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaRU.htm > > Japanese (another project with a strong popular culture bias) is declining > too: > > http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaJA.htm > > Another interesting variable is editor retention, measured as the > percentage of all Wikipedians who still make 100 or more edits a month: > > 0.45% in English WP > 0.59% in Japanese WP > 0.73% in Spanish WP > 0.90% in German WP* > 0.99% in Polish WP* > 1.01% in French WP > 1.49% in Russian WP* > > * The German, Polish and Russian Wikipedias have flagged revisions. (I am > currently looking at this data to see if there is a correlation between > flagged revisions and editor retention.) > > Andreas > > I forgot to add the editor retention figure in Portuguese WP: it's 0.62%, based on the latest reported month (April 2012). _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l