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<big><big>Hi -</big></big><br>
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<big><big>Frank Schulenberg did an interesting analysis that looked at
the proportion of people creating a new account on Wikipedia who go on
to make an edit within 10 days. It was surprising to see that Hindi
Wikipedia had a very different rate that some other projects (see
below). Can anyone share an explanation?</big></big><br>
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<td height="17" width="86" align="LEFT">English</td>
<td width="86" align="RIGHT">31</td>
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<td height="17" align="LEFT">German</td>
<td align="RIGHT">35</td>
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<td height="17" align="LEFT">Russian</td>
<td align="RIGHT">26</td>
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<td height="17" align="LEFT">Swedish</td>
<td align="RIGHT">30</td>
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<td height="17" align="LEFT">Hindi</td>
<td align="RIGHT">9</td>
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<big><big>FYI - Frank did this for a new initiative starting in
October: </big></big><a
href="http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Account_Creation_Improvement_Project">http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Account_Creation_Improvement_Project</a><br>
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Best,<br>
Barry<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Barry Newstead
Chief Global Development Officer
Wikimedia Foundation
Tel: +1-415-839-6885 x. 634
Skype: barry.wikimedia
Twitter: @bazanews
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