Is there any way of telling what proportion of these 8% appear to be using the Visual
Editor either exclusively or partially? It might be interesting to track the take-up of
the VE (fully or partially) by editor by year of original signup.
Kerry
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Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Has the recent increase in English wikipedia's core
community gone beyond a statistical blip?
Hi,
With 8% more editors contributing over 100 edits in June 2015 than in
<https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm> June 2014, we have now had
six consecutive months where this particular metric of the core community is looking
positive. One or two months could easily be a statistical blip, especially when you
compare calender months that may have 5 weekends in one year and four the next. But 6
months in a row does begin to look like a change in pattern.
As far as caveats go I'm aware of several of the reasons why raw edit count is a
suspect measure, but I'm not aware of anything that has come in in this year that
would have artificially inflated edit counts and brought more of the under 100 editors
into the >100 group.
I know there was a recent speedup, which should increase subsequent edit rates, and one of
the edit filters got disabled in June, but neither of those should be relevant to the
Jan-May period.
Would anyone on this list be aware of something that would have otherwise thrown that
statistic?
Otherwise I'm considering submitting something to the Signpost.
Regards
Jonathan