http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904875404576532431335938862.html September 2011
> Adding more editors “is one of our top priorities for the year,” says Howie > Fung…aims to increase the number of editors across all languages of Wikipedia > to 95,000 from 81,450 by June of next year. From http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaZZ.htm using the >5 edits a month metric used in WMF docs: 1. July 2012: 76,400 2. June 2012: 74,402 3. May 2012: 76,956 4. April 2012: 75,141 5. March 2012; 76,274 The high water mark, incidentally, seems to have been March 2007 with 90,618 editors >5 edits that month. So we have been shrinking ~2.8k editors a year ((91 - 77) / (2012 - 2007)). In retrospect, my 75% prediction that this priority would not be achieved (http://predictionbook.com/predictions/3241) was ludicrously optimistic, given that the 95k editor mark has *never* been reached. -- gwern http://www.gwern.net/In%20Defense%20Of%20Inclusionism _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
