On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]>wrote:
> Andreas Kolbe, 10/01/2013 17:24: > >> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: >> >> The main pattern, ie a turning point in 2007, is the same in all >>> projects, >>> and almost in all language versions of them: [...] >>> >> >> Actually, Nemo, I don't think that is right at all. If you look at the >> German, Spanish or French Wikipedia, for example, the German and Spanish >> are totally stable, with no decline at all discernible around 2007, while >> editor numbers for the French Wikipedia are actually growing: >> >> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/**TablesWikipediaFR.htm<http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaFR.htm> >> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/**TablesWikipediaDE.htm<http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaDE.htm> >> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/**TablesWikipediaES.htm<http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaES.htm> >> > > I said "a turning point", i.e. a singularity; mainly, from positive to > non-positive derivative, whether negative or not. Of course, it's easier to > see in a graph than in a table. > I don't see French growing: except an outlier in November 2012 for active > editors, which is not reflected in the very active editors count, in the > last few months it's at the same level as in January-March 2008, 4800-5000 > active editors. > It's the same in Italian, growth till January-March 2008 and then > oscillation/stagnation: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/** > TablesWikipediaIT.htm<http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaIT.htm> > Anecdotally in WMIT, we've been repeating "it.wiki has 500 very active > editors" for a while, and we've stopped updating this figure a long time > ago. :-) > > Of course I'm only playing the stats dilettante here. > Here are the French charts: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaFR.htm Here are the English ones: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaFR.htm Compare the third and fourth charts (for editors making more than 5 and more than 100 edits per month respectively). The height of the bars in the French charts is still rising. It's a continuous upward trend. In the English charts, it has been falling since 2007. Andreas _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
