On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't disagree with the overall results - editor numbers are still > in decline - but I think it's worth including the caveat that the > numbers reported on the wikistats site have recently been adjusted > downwards by around 5% - > http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/08/31/improving-the-accuracy-of-the-active-editors-metric/ > > The result is that Howie's quote above is doubly unlikely - it's based > on an inflated estimate of how many editors we had then. Our figures > for Aug 2011 are now 76,126 rather than the 81,450 quoted; adjusting > his target accordingly, this would make it around 89,500. Still a long > way to go, though, whichever you use!
Whups. > One last interesting point: the 2010 drop was mostly a non-en.wp event; the > drop on en.wp was proportionally much less. I have no idea as to the likely > cause of this. Perhaps the damage has already been done on En? I would've suggested that maybe the WMF retention initiatives might have not failed entirely, except I don't remember any of them being finished in 2010, much less being able to affect the overall wiki so much. -- gwern http://www.gwern.net _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
