On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 12:10 PM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
Retention of people who've made a handful of edits has declined substantially since 2005, even though new users still show up at the same rate.
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
Since 2005 the need to create accounts in order to do things has significantly increased.
http://www.informationweek.com/wikipedia-tightens-rules-for-posting/17490078...
December 05, 2005
"As a result of the incident, Wikipedia no longer accepts new submissions from anonymous contributors, Wales said. A person now has to register with the site before contributing an article."
I wonder, what percentage of those newly created accounts with only a handful of edits include an edit which required the creation of an account? If you're going to check, make sure to include deleted edits.