On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 12:10 PM, James Salsman <[email protected]> wrote: > Retention of people who've made a handful of edits has > declined substantially since 2005, even though new users still show up > at the same rate.
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > Since 2005 the need to create accounts in order to do things has > significantly increased. http://www.informationweek.com/wikipedia-tightens-rules-for-posting/174900789 December 05, 2005 "As a result of the incident, Wikipedia no longer accepts new submissions from anonymous contributors, Wales said. A person now has to register with the site before contributing an article." I wonder, what percentage of those newly created accounts with only a handful of edits include an edit which required the creation of an account? If you're going to check, make sure to include deleted edits. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
