I'm not an analyst, but I was looking at this out of curiosity and noticed that anon users dropped by almost the same number that logged-in users rose:

https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/contributing/active-editors/normal|line|1-year|editor_type~anonymous*user|monthly

Maybe people are logging in more?

On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 1:56 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com> wrote:
The English Wikipedia is showing a pattern that I don't notice on
several other wikis. If I'm not mistaken, in April 2020 monthly active
editors passed 43k for the first time since 2011 (the year when
MobileFrontend was created).
<https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/contributing/active-editors/normal|line|all|editor_type~user|monthly>

(As usual there will be a deflation of the number in a few months, after
the deletions have run their course. The 43k threshold may still hold.)

The April peak looks like it continued and reinforced one of the
now-usual October/January/March peaks. Do we know how much of this
growth is organic or across the board and how much is amplification of
existing known seasonal patterns (WikiEdu?).

Federico
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