The majority of registered accounts on en-WP are likely to never have
edited (some of them are perhaps autocreated by someone who's home
Wikipedia is not English), or they edited an article that has since
been deleted, and are therefore listed with no edits. In October 2010
I gathered some data for en-WP, and found that for the users who
registered in January 2009, 68.15% of them were at that time listed
with 0 edits (across all namespaces). Unless you're also looking at
edits to deleted articles/pages, it might be difficult to go beyond a
third of the user base.
Regards,
Morten
On 10 May 2012 10:35, Piotr Konieczny <piokon(a)post.pl> wrote:
Thanks for the link. The figure 4,058,477 you cite
(from
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm#editdistribution), as
you note, comes with the warning that "Only article edits are counted, not
edits on discussion pages, etc". I assume this is why the magic word
NUMBEROFUSERS at en Wikipedia returns 16,763,691 (numerous low activity
editors apparently make their few edits outside article mainspace).
The breakdown I could live with, for a while, but the fact that this stat
covers only about a quarter of registered accounts is a problem. Is anybody
familiar with a way to achieve a breakdown of all named accounts with 1+
edit (for English Wikipedia), no matter which namespace they edited?
Preferably with more flexible ranges than the ones in that table?
In other words, the linked page provides "Distribution of article
[namespace] edits over registered editors", whereas I am interested in
"Distribution of [all] namespaces edits over registered editors".
--
Piotr Konieczny
"To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on
one's laurels, is defeat." --Józef Pilsudski
On 5/10/2012 4:49 AM, WereSpielChequers wrote:
I'm not sure that we have exactly what your asking for.
For example we have the figure of 4,058,477 but that is for registered
accounts on the English Wikipedia that have made at least one edit to an
article. Different language versions of Wikipedia are also available, but of
course registered accounts doesn't exactly tally with Wikipedians not least
because IP editors are excluded. Also I believe that early edits - pre 2004
may not be available and I suspect that deleted edits may not be counted.
That said we have further stats of 1,614,938 registered accounts with >= 3
article edits and 772,557 >=10
So
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm#editdistribution is
well worth looking at, but they break at 32 and 100 not 50 which may be a
problem for you.
Hope that helps
WSC
On 9 May 2012 23:42, Piotr Konieczny <pik1(a)pitt.edu> wrote:
I was looking at official stats, but I seem to be unable to find out an
answer to the following question:
* how many of Wikipedia editors have X edits (or fall within a range of
edits)
To be more precise, I am curious how many Wikipedians have:
* exactly 1 edit
* between 2-9 edits
* between 10-50 edits
I know that the total number of registered accounts is reported at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians
Can anybody direct me to the right page/counter that would allow me to
obtain the above information? I hope it is obtainable without having to
download the dump...
Incidentally, if anybody has those numbers, in addition to replying here
feel free to add the information and/or source the one present at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians
Thanks,
--
Piotr Konieczny
PhD Candidate
Dept of Sociology
Uni of Pittsburgh
http://pittsburgh.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus
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