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".

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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@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,

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PhD Candidate
Dept of Sociology
Uni of Pittsburgh

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