This thread is a good candidate for wiki-research-l. Forwarding... 2012/4/18 Yaroslav M. Blanter <[email protected]>
> 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 > [email protected].**org <[email protected]> > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l> > -- Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain) Projects: AVBOT <http://code.google.com/p/avbot/> | StatMediaWiki<http://statmediawiki.forja.rediris.es> | WikiEvidens <http://code.google.com/p/wikievidens/> | WikiPapers<http://wikipapers.referata.com> | WikiTeam <http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/> Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
