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

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