This thread is a good candidate for wiki-research-l. Forwarding...
2012/4/18 Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod@mccme.ru
My message is inspired by discussion in this thread ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Wikipedia:Administrators%27_** noticeboard#Loss_of_more_and_**more_and_more_established_** editors_and_administratorshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Loss_of_more_and_more_and_more_established_editors_and_administrators) on Englush Wikipedia. Whereas the thread itself is not relevant to this list, and the points get re-iterated on a regular basis, there were statements made there which contain quantitative estimates (for instance that 90% established users who leave do it because they get a new job or have their external life changed in some other way, and not because of harassment etc). Most probably these numbers are not really justified, but then I wanted to know what real numbers are. I am an Rcom member, but I can not recollect such research being accomplished (I might be wrong of course). I could not find data easily either (I spent half an hour because I remembered we had a Community Health initiative group which somehow evolved into the Movement Roles, but the Movement Roles pages on Meta do not talk about community health at all, and I could not even find an appropriate page to ask the question).
After this long introduction, does somebody know / can point out the answers to the questions:
- What is the average lifetime of a Wikipedia editor (for instance the
one with at leat 1000 contributions)? I recollect smth about two years, but I am pretty sure I have never seen any research on this. How does it depend on the number of contributions?
- What are the main reasons why these editors stop editing? Is this
correct, for instance, that external reasons are much more important than internal (on-wiki troubles and wiki-related harassment) reasons? The same for say those above 10000 edits?
Thanks in advance Cheers Yaroslav
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