On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 12:10 PM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
Retention of people who have made dozens of edits is about the same as it's ever been. 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.
Retention of accounts, at least.
Since 2005 the need to create accounts in order to do things has significantly increased.
I've personally certainly created dozens of accounts since 2005.