On Nov 1, 2012 9:28 AM, "Piotr Konieczny" <piokon@post.pl> wrote:
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> On 10/31/2012 6:34 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
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>> Piotr Konieczny, 31/10/2012 23:08:
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>>> Would anyone have/know where to find any of the following estimates for
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>>> * of Wikipedians with a userpage
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>> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm#namespaces gives you the number of pages in User: namespace.
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> Thanks, I thought i new this page, but I guess I didn't new it well enough.
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> Incidentally, here's a chilling number: the average number of new editors per month in 2011 was 7,700, in 2012 it is forming up to be about 6,500. I don't like this trend at all; I thought the number of new editors was. ..

Is that new _editors_ or new users?

If new users, does it include SUL creations?  We should expect SUL account creations to have a peak and then drop sharply once most non-English editors have visited enwp while logged in.

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John