Hi John,

Thanks for these details...

On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, at 13:19, John Mark Vandenberg wrote:
> See the graphs for 5+ editors here:
> 
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikibooks/EN/ChartsWikipediaZZ.htm
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikiquote/EN/ChartsWikipediaZZ.htm
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/ChartsWikipediaZZ.htm

I find it humorous that this page says "number of Wikipedians" for some other 
language editions.

> 
> It is wikinews that

Careful about wording there. "English" Wikinews. Other language editions are 
different.


> has been loosing contributors since mid 2008, and

And obtaining too -- the stats show the sum of those who joined and those who 
left I believe.

> new articles per day has dropped since late 2010.

That's around when they introduced the peer review. (Again, just the English 
version.)

> 
> Wikibooks contributor count fluctuates a lot.
> 
> Wikiquote is fairly static, but using a constant number of
> contributors to justify 'stagnant' isnt accurate.  The content metrics
> of Wikiquote indicate it is still growing, at a fairly constant rate.

Right; I'm personally quite disliking these statistics, as the software has no 
means implemented to merge edits, such as when I make a typo. I keep struggling 
to find means to reduce the edit count to make things easier for others to 
track.

Gryllida.

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