On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wsor-june13-enwiki-time-percentage.png Ignoring pre-2003, the percentage of anonymous edits peaked in November of 2005. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
