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Am 19.04.2012 01:40, schrieb Robert Rohde: > PS. This story was triggered by Fastily's retirement. He has 46000 > edits on enwiki, and only about 620 editors have reached that plateau. > Of these, 90% are still active. So such retirements are relatively > rare. Personally, I hope he decides to come back after taking some > time to relax and recharge. It seems to be the case that many such > declared retirements aren't really permanent. > > -Robert Rohde > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Robert Rohde <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> <snip> >> >>> 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? >> >> For enwiki, using data from last August: >> >> 28243 users have at least 1000 edits (all namespaces). >> >> Of these, 9898 had not edited in the six months before the end of the data >> set. >> >> So about 65% of the major editors are still active, at least occasionally. >> >> The mean wiki-lifetime for the 28243 major users was 49.9 months. >> >> For the 9898 users who were not recently active, the mean >> wiki-lifetime was 35.6 months. >> >> >> Further, there are 4685 users with at least 10000 edits, and of these, >> all but 914 were still active in the last 6 months of the data set. >> So 80% of the editors at the very high end are still active (at least >> occasionally). The mean wiki-lifetime on the total group is 60.5 >> months, and the departed group is 42.6 months. >> >> >> Incidentally, the mean account age of individuals editing article >> space is now over 3 years for enwiki. A lot of the work is being by >> the relative old-timers. By the same token though, people who have >> ever made it to 1000 edits are more likely than not to still be active >> today. >> >> -Robert Rohde > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
