Sage Ross wrote: > 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
And many don't even perform one edit. As I don't believe so many people create them just to change their preferences, it is a mistery for me why do they do so. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
