Oliver Keyes wrote:
... Mobile now makes up 30% of our page views and its users display divergent behavioural patterns; you don't think a group that makes up 30% of pageviews is a user group that is a 'big deal' for engagement?
For the English Wikipedia:
>100 Million active mobile Date editors Change pageviews Change July 2009 3,795 -7% July 2010 3,517 -7% 278 July 2011 3,374 -4% 571 105% July 2012 3,360 0% 1,210 112% July 2013 3,135 -7% 1,880 55% July 2014 3,037 -3% 3,010 60%
Where is the evidence that mobile use has any influence on editor engagement?
If you want to predict how long editors will stay, compare how many new articles they were successfully creating in their first 500 edits in 2004-2006 versus 2008-present.