On 29 May 2014 15:31, Rui Correia correia.rui@gmail.com wrote:
Neither of those answers my question. I doesn't tell me whether we are bleeding new or old members. The reason for an editor of either group to leave are different. All that that graph shows is that there has been a frightful drop since 2007.
The reports do include things like "recently absent wikipedians". Perhaps you would like to write down a few criteria for the ideal report you would like to see, and then those more aware of what statistics are available could then either point to something equivalent, or knock out a quick report for it?
My assumption is that you would like to see something like a monthly snapshot of stats for all accounts that (a) have ceased making contributions in the last {1 to 6} months (b) tabulated by whether they were 'newbies' or not. I am unsure if there is an agreed way of measuring newbies, but something like "with fewer than {10, 100, 1000} total contributions" might be meaningful.
A more general question - Is there an on-wiki page for folks to suggest and discuss additional reports like this, email being a non-good way of discussing this sort of thing? I can see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Analytics might be an appropriate place, but it seems a very quiet page and the majority of Wikimedians would probably be happier talking on meta or similar.
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