We've not had SUL (Single User Login) for that long, and my impression is that this will tend to inflate the number of registered accounts compared with the number of active accounts. Many such editors will still stay on to edit their home wiki, without ever editing WP, except perhaps as a test Has this been taken into account?
Phil
Bence Damokos wrote:
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 5:33 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Certainly someone else can do more formal research and come up with actual numbers. But as for me I think it's ridiculous at worst and premature at best to say that new users are becoming less sticky when, it seems to me, they have in fact never been particularly sticky.
The study examined those people who have registered and made at least one
edit, and the ratio of the people who stuck on after their first edit has gone down, which is the basis of concern.
(There are and have always been many more people who have registered but never got to edit, and many who never registered but still edited, it would be interesting to see if there is any change in proportion over time.)
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