Pine wrote:
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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:
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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:
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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%?