Good news discussion below. Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Pine W" <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> Date: Aug 15, 2015 7:05 AM Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Has the recent increase in English wikipedia's core community gone beyond a statistical blip? To: "Wiki Research-l" <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: is a correlation between the use of those tools and the editor population statistics. wrote: June 2014, we have now had six consecutive months where this particular metric of the core community is looking positive. One or two months could easily be a statistical blip, especially when you compare calender months that may have 5 weekends in one year and four the next. But 6 months in a row does begin to look like a change in pattern. count is a suspect measure, but I'm not aware of anything that has come in in this year that would have artificially inflated edit counts and brought more of the under 100 editors into the >100 group. rates, and one of the edit filters got disabled in June, but neither of those should be relevant to the Jan-May period. otherwise thrown that statistic?