On 4 September 2012 21:01, Gwern Branwen <gwern0(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904875404576532431335938862.h…
> September 2011
>
>> Adding more editors “is one of our top priorities for the year,” says Howie Fung…aims to increase the number of editors across all languages of Wikipedia to 95,000 from 81,450 by June of next year.
>
> From http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaZZ.htm using the >5
> edits a month metric used in WMF docs:
>
> 1. July 2012: 76,400
> 2. June 2012: 74,402
> 3. May 2012: 76,956
> 4. April 2012: 75,141
> 5. March 2012; 76,274
>
> The high water mark, incidentally, seems to have been March 2007 with
> 90,618 editors >5 edits that month. So we have been shrinking ~2.8k
> editors a year ((91 - 77) / (2012 - 2007)). In retrospect, my 75%
> prediction that this priority would not be achieved
> (http://predictionbook.com/predictions/3241) was ludicrously
> optimistic, given that the 95k editor mark has *never* been reached.
I don't disagree with the overall results - editor numbers are still
in decline - but I think it's worth including the caveat that the
numbers reported on the wikistats site have recently been adjusted
downwards by around 5% -
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/08/31/improving-the-accuracy-of-the-active-e…
The result is that Howie's quote above is doubly unlikely - it's based
on an inflated estimate of how many editors we had then. Our figures
for Aug 2011 are now 76,126 rather than the 81,450 quoted; adjusting
his target accordingly, this would make it around 89,500. Still a long
way to go, though, whichever you use!
I've quickly graphed the recent numbers (just focusing on the period
after the initial exponential growth, so starting in 2007):
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_editor_numbers_2007-2012_…
It seems that the rate of decline may be slowing, at least. Which I
guess is something.
The really interesting part comes from separating out the data for the
English Wikipedia, which is 30% down from its 2007 peak, down from
50,000 editors to 35,000 - the graph is smoother, but otherwise looks
very similar to the first one.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_editor_numbers_2007-2012_…
In fact, the decline on en.wp is so steep that it actually represents
almost all the overall decline in the projects; if you look at the
totals for every project except en.wp, the graph jumps around a bit
but is actually quite stable. Since the start of 2008, the three-month
moving average has always been 40,000 editors +- 5%.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_editor_numbers_2007-2012_…
One last interesting point: the 2010 drop was mostly a non-en.wp
event; the drop on en.wp was proportionally much less. I have no idea
as to the likely cause of this.
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
Fellows,
One of the daunting tasks that users and stewards alike face is to get one
user renamed across projects. This often takes weeks or even months before
a user gets their rename completed. Main reason is that there was no global
rename tool and stewards usually does not act on wikis where there are
active bureaucrats. This causes the user to wait till they get themselves
renamed everywhere and often ends up being half renamed for weeks.
We currently have a solution to rename users across projects. To make every
one's life easier, we would need to have a global rename policy in place to
allow stewards to rename users across projects.
We have reopened the RfC
here<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Global_rename_policy>.
Kindly read the current
draft<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_rename_policy> and
provide your thoughts and feedbacks.
Thank you for your time in advance.
Regards,
Jyothis.
http://www.Jyothis.net
[[User:Jyothis]] <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis>
Camerocks - Rock your digital world! <https://www.camerocks.com/>
completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) /
resources) + ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings
Hello Everyone
Because Anasuya is taking a small weekend break she asked me to post the shortlist of candidates after going through it one more time with the FDC Advisory Group.
I just posted that list on:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/2012_Shortlist…
I also would like to take this opportunity to all candidates, whether or not they made this shortlist. As you know the FDC has an important role in funds dissemination and we are very grateful that so many of you volunteered to help make it a success! Also a thank you to all those involved in the selection process so far :)
The next steps for the final selection process are also outlined on the Meta page.
Jan-Bart de Vreede
Vice Chair Board of Trustees
Wikimedia Foundation
In preparation for this year's fundraiser, I've put a good deal of
effort into optimizing the speed of CentralNotice banner loading. Under
ideal conditions (fast connection, no servers acting up, not many JS
gadgets to compete with), it should take less than a second. Hopefully,
this will reduce the "banner bump" problem and cause fewer misplaced
clicks. For all the gory details see:
http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/CentralNotice/Optimizing_banner_loading#…
These optimizations went into place last week and are now live on all
wikis. If you have any comments or questions, please email me personally
(I don't read wikimedia-l very often).
Cheers,
Ryan Kaldari
Good day,
I'm pleased to announce you the creation of Wikimedia Indigenous Languages
(WIL). WIL is the coordinating body for the promotion and development of
indigenous on Wikimedia projects.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Indigenous_Languages (or just
search WIL on Meta)
Wikimedia Indigenous Languages' vision is to see the sum of the knowledge
available to everybody in their own languages and to share the knowledge of
those languages themselves. It will achieve that by:
- Reaching indigenous languages speakers for the development of Wikimedia
projects in their language
- Establishing working cooperation with outside organizations involved in
the promotion of indigenous languages
- Creating and expanding Wikimedia projects in all indigenous languages
Wikimedia Indigenous Languages' role is to support and encourage the
efforts of specific projects to develop Wikimedia projects in small and
endangered languages. It will serve as an international body to collect and
share best practices, lessons learned and methodology to develop small
languages Wikimedia projects and preserve endangered languages. It will
also offer support to people interested in developing initiatives and new
projects. It will also become the point of contact to set up cooperation
with other organizations working towards the same goals and will also
actively seek such cooperation opportunities.
Anybody or any group who is interested in this project or any projects with
indigenous languages are welcome to join Wikimedia Indigenous Languages.
For questions or further discussion, come on the talk page, and a dedicated
mailing list to discuss languages-related issue and initiatives will soon
be crated.
Thanks,
JP Béland
(alias Amqui)
