On 22 September 2010 04:27, Andre Engels <andreengels(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Lennart
Guldbrandsson
<wikihannibal(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Did you know that less than a third of the users
who create an account on
English Wikipedia make even *one* edit afterwards? Two-thirds of all new
accounts never edit! Interestingly, this percentage vary very much from
language version to language version.
Now, the question is not: "what can we do about it?" We know plenty of
things that we *could* do. The question is this: "what are the easiest
levers to push that increase the numbers?"
I think we need to take a step back first. Before deciding on what to
do about this, two other questions have to be asked:
1. Why are people creating an account without editing?
2. Do we want/need to do something about it?
There are various reasons why people could register without editing.
To name a few:
* people coming in from other Wikimedia wikis, auto-registering through SUL
I think Andre is right, and this is the reason for so many non-editing
accounts, especially since SUL. I am sure someone can run a script to
determine how many "non-editing" English WP accounts have a partner
"editing" account on another project.
Risker/Anne