WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers(a)gmail.com> writes:
Yes, but may I also point out that one of our biggest
problems on EN
wiki is that even good faith newbies will often have their edits
reverted. [...] By contrast commons is a relatively lonely
place.
This comment reminds me that for large wikis things can be quite
heterogenous across different parts of the wiki (different subject
matter, popular vs. obscure articles, etc.), which entire-wiki-level
analyses tend to obscure. For example in my own editing, EN-wiki is also
"a relatively lonely place"--- most articles I've created *years* ago
have gotten no feedback at all in the time since (no comments on the
talk page, no non-housekeeping edits, etc.). For other people, of
course, it feels like a crowded place where someone is always stepping
on your toes, presumably because they edit different kinds of
articles. To understand exactly what's going on with editor
culture/retention/etc., I think we need to analyze therefore at a finer
level of granularity than "the English Wikipedia" (or "the German
Wikipedia", etc.).
-Mark