Because myself and others have been frustrated by the lack of good stats on the number of active editors on the English Wikipedia, I have compiled some stats on the editing frequency on enwiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_frequency
I am going to forgo any extensive analysis for now. But I will say that these trends mostly mirror trends seen elsewhere, with a peak in early 2007 followed by a decline and then leveling out as we go towards the present.
In September, 130,000 registered users and 525,000 anons made at least one edit to an article. If you define "active editors" as those making at least 20 article edits per month then 14000 registered users and 6000 anons met that threshold in September.
-Robert Rohde
Wow, someone had more than 10,000 edits in February of 2002.
Does it look to anyone else like the first five months of 2007 and 2008 were very busy, followed by a drop for the rest of the year? If that is whats happened, any theories as to why?
Nathan
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 5:32 AM, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
Because myself and others have been frustrated by the lack of good stats on the number of active editors on the English Wikipedia, I have compiled some stats on the editing frequency on enwiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_frequency
I am going to forgo any extensive analysis for now. But I will say that these trends mostly mirror trends seen elsewhere, with a peak in early 2007 followed by a decline and then leveling out as we go towards the present.
In September, 130,000 registered users and 525,000 anons made at least one edit to an article. If you define "active editors" as those making at least 20 article edits per month then 14000 registered users and 6000 anons met that threshold in September.
-Robert Rohde
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Wow, someone had more than 10,000 edits in February of 2002.
Not someone. The conversion script (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Conversion_script) did. It had 26657 revisions in mainspace in feb 2002.
Travis (user:leafman)
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Travis Kriplean travis@cs.washington.edu wrote:
Wow, someone had more than 10,000 edits in February of 2002.
Not someone. The conversion script (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Conversion_script) did. It had 26657 revisions in mainspace in feb 2002.
en.wp has more stronger editors and less weaker editors in 2008 compared to 2007. Is it possible to check how many of stronger editors are bots?
What is a stronger editor? If its just a lot of people making more edits, that could be attributed to Huggle...
Nathan
Amazing.
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 4:32 AM, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
Because myself and others have been frustrated by the lack of good stats on the number of active editors on the English Wikipedia, I have compiled some stats on the editing frequency on enwiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_frequency
I am going to forgo any extensive analysis for now. But I will say that these trends mostly mirror trends seen elsewhere, with a peak in early 2007 followed by a decline and then leveling out as we go towards the present.
In September, 130,000 registered users and 525,000 anons made at least one edit to an article. If you define "active editors" as those making at least 20 article edits per month then 14000 registered users and 6000 anons met that threshold in September.
-Robert Rohde
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