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 <phili...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > 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 > > Also, Zack has some statistics from the Summer of Research, I think, on the > other questions you ask. You might write him. > > pb > ___________________ > Philippe Beaudette > Director, Community Advocacy > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. > > 415-839-6885, x 6643 > > phili...@wikimedia.org > > > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru > >wrote: > > > 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_administrators< > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Loss_of_more_and_more_and_more_established_editors_and_administrators > >) > > on Englush Wikipedia. Whereas the thread itself is not relevant to this > > list, and the points get re-iterated on a regular basis, there were > > statements made there which contain quantitative estimates (for instance > > that 90% established users who leave do it because they get a new job or > > have their external life changed in some other way, and not because of > > harassment etc). Most probably these numbers are not really justified, > but > > then I wanted to know what real numbers are. I am an Rcom member, but I > can > > not recollect such research being accomplished (I might be wrong of > > course). I could not find data easily either (I spent half an hour > because > > I remembered we had a Community Health initiative group which somehow > > evolved into the Movement Roles, but the Movement Roles pages on Meta do > > not talk about community health at all, and I could not even find an > > appropriate page to ask the question). > > > > After this long introduction, does somebody know / can point out the > > answers to the questions: > > > > 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 the number of contributions? > > > > 2. What are the main reasons why these editors stop editing? Is this > > correct, for instance, that external reasons are much more important than > > internal (on-wiki troubles and wiki-related harassment) reasons? The same > > for say those above 10000 edits? > > > > Thanks in advance > > Cheers > > Yaroslav > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**org <Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l< > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l