On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Howie Fung
<hfung(a)wikimedia.org> 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.