Do you have any more useful or meaningful metrics?
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[mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of James Forrester
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Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in size of the core editing community
On 10 September 2015 at 07:21, WereSpielChequers < werespielchequers(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
A quick follow up to the signpost article of a couple
of weeks ago <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-08-26/
In_focus
We
now have the August figures
<https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaZZ.htm>, and August has
continued what we might reasonably start calling the new trend. The
English Wikipedia has more editors with 100 or more live edits in
mainspace than for any August since 2010. Across all Wikipedias
combined the figures are up almost as steeply with a near 10% increase
on August 2014, though this doesn't quite get us back to 2012 levels.
?Interesting data, but it's just data, not a conclusion.?
Also, and a bit off-topic, "core editing community" is a pretty offensive term
to use for "editors who make more than 100 edits a month", disregarding the
continuing editors who make fewer than 100 edits as non-core regardless of the value they
add to the wikis; the normal term is "very active editors" to avoid implicit
disparagement.
?[Snip]?
editors making 5 or more saves
?[is]
down
across Wikipedia generally when comparing August 2015 with 2014.
?So, actually, your title? is faulty and misleading. Instead, you could say:
- "English Wikipedia editor numbers continue to decline but meta-editors
are up",
- "Editor diversity falls as more edits are done by fewer editors", or
even
- "Beset by a falling number of editors, existing users of the English
Wikipedia feel compelled to edit still more in their desperate attempts to
fix things"?
But it's nice to have one metric be positive.
?I'm not sure it is.? What is the nature and value of these edits? Two editors
endlessly reverting each other counts as "more edits" but adds no value; one
hundred editors each writing a beautiful Featured Article in a single edit counts as less
"work" than one admin reverting 101 vandalism edits by a single spambot.
What's your next step to evaluate this?
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
Lead Product Manager, Editing
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
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