Good point, I myself have over 10 userpace pages. If this list gives includes subpages, it is certainly an overestimate. It might be possible to figure out an acceptable range (there is probably a correlation factor between number of edits and number of subpages), but it would be guesstimate, really. At the same time, I would think the number of user pages without counting subpages would be simple to obtain from a dump - alas, I never figured out how to handle those (as in, I don't code in anything but wikisyntax...).

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On 10/31/2012 7:32 PM, WereSpielChequers wrote:

Which language version of Wikipedia are you interested in?

If is English then column B in http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm gives you new editors by month up to September - just tot up the most recent twelve to get a figure as at the start of October.

However I'd add a word of caution re taking the number of pages in userspace as a figure for the number of users with a userpage. Some editors have lots of pages in userspace, it is a good place for drafts, essays, the quirkier userboxes and so forth, most commonly sandboxes but also guestbooks, adoption programs, recall criteria, mentoring programs and so forth. Some editors create new articles straight into mainspace, others have a sandbox and work on one new article at a time, such editors might only have two pages in userspace. But editors who work on several articles in parallel may well have scores of pages in userspace.

WSC

On 31 October 2012 22:08, Piotr Konieczny <piokon@post.pl> wrote:

Would anyone have/know where to find any of the following estimates for English Wikipedia, either as a number or as % of the total population of editors (which is known):
* of people who edited Wikipedia anonymously
* of Wikipedians with a userpage
* of Wikipedians who have been registered for less than a year
* of Wikipedians who have been registered for less than a month
The data does not have to be current.

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