Erik Moeller wrote:

Dear research community,

we've published results of our Editor Trends Study, here:

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Trends_Study/Results

See this update from Sue for some larger context:

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/March_2011_Update

This is an important milestone in our understanding of the Wikimedia editing community. Thanks to Diederik van Liere and Howie Fung for their (continuing) efforts on this.

Looking forward to your comments on-wiki or on-list. :-) As Diederik has announced previously, the code is available here:

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Trends_Study/Software

We'd love to see more researchers dig into the Wikilytics toolset and into the data.

Let me be the first to say "wonderful news" :) I was looking forward to reading those results for a long time now.

And the news itself (study results) are actually not half-bad, neither. Glad to see that the doomsday scenarios are not supported by the data...