Pine wrote:
>...
> The data you show in that table indicates that
> there is a negative correlation between active
> editors and mobile pageviews....

No, it does not. The rate of editor attrition has been constant since 2007, while mobile views have increased from zero to billions. Mobile pageviews have has absolutely no correlation with editor engagement whatsoever.

If there is a quantification of civility issues per editor somewhere, please bring it to my attention. I suggest that editors who think incivility has increased since 2006 are not familiar with incivility issues prior to 2006.

Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>...
> all efforts intending to enable mobile editors
> enable a latent potential of editors.

Editing under the Vector skin has worked just fine on Android since 2010 and on iOS since 2012. There is no evidence that the edits under mobile device specialty skins or apps will ever approach the proportion of editing under the Vector skin.

Nor is there any evidence that the increasing proportion of mobile pageviews has had any impact on the number of active editors, who again have been declining along a constant trend since 2007 to the present, even as mobile pageviews have displaced a very substantial and growing proportion of desktop pageviews.

> The visual editor has as a side benefit that we
> will be moving away from Wiki editing.

Are you aware of the proportion of active editors who have enabled the visual editor? It is miniscule, judging from tags in recent changes.

Oliver Keyes wrote:
>...
> the increase of mobile traffic is going to have an impact
> on efforts to reverse the negative trend in active editors.

Why? Mobile pageviews are now 30%. Editing is enabled and relatively easy on mobile devices. The rate of editor attrition is unchanged from 2007. Where is there any evidence that the trend in active editors will change at all if and when mobile pageviews reach 50% or 75%?

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