On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Andreas Kolbe, 10/01/2013 18:09:
Here are the French charts:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/**ChartsWikipediaFR.htm<http://stats.wikim…
Here are the English ones:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/**ChartsWikipediaFR.htm<http://stats.wikim…
Compare the third and fourth charts (for editors making more than 5 and
more than 100 edits per month respectively). The height of the bars in the
French charts is still rising. It's a continuous upward trend.
Sorry, I've no idea what you're looking at: I don't see any continuous
upward trend, as I said in the previous message. Sure, if you compare the
last month of each wiki with the month of en.wiki's highest peak you can
prove whatever you want.
Open these two pages:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaFR.htm
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaEN.htm
Each has four bar charts with yellow bars. Ignore the top two charts. Focus
on the third and fourth charts with yellow bars.
Random fluctuations aside, the ones for French show a consistent upward
trend. The ones for English show a peak in 2007, and then a consistent
downward trend. That is the difference I was pointing out.
If we are talking about the purely statistical side of things, then
statistically these projects do not conform to the same trend as the
English Wikipedia.
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Yann Forget <yannfo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I agree totally with Tim's assessments of the
situation, and it is
quite the same on the French WP, and that's why I stopped editing
there.
Some people like power more than anything else (well, that's not
surprising, because it is quite the same IRL), including the growth of
the project.
I am quite sure the French and other Wikipedias have broadly similar social
problems to the English one (the German one certainly has a few), and I too
agree with Tim's earlier comments in that regard.
Andreas