On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Howie Fung <[email protected]> wrote: > Just making sure I understand the data below. I'm assuming this means > there are 13,959,842 total accounts in the English Wikipedia? > > Interesting because there are a total of 651,652 cumulative "New > Wikipedians" (users with >=10 lifetime edits) as of Dec 2010. Which > would mean that only 4.7% of all registered accounts qualify to be > considered "New Wikipedian," so the vast majority of our accounts are > for readers? >
Yep, that lines up about right with my understanding of the editor activity distribution. When someone starts editing, they are very likely to stop after one edit. -Sage _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
