Because myself and others have been frustrated by the lack of good stats on the number of active editors on the English Wikipedia, I have compiled some stats on the editing frequency on enwiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_frequency
I am going to forgo any extensive analysis for now. But I will say that these trends mostly mirror trends seen elsewhere, with a peak in early 2007 followed by a decline and then leveling out as we go towards the present.
In September, 130,000 registered users and 525,000 anons made at least one edit to an article. If you define "active editors" as those making at least 20 article edits per month then 14000 registered users and 6000 anons met that threshold in September.
-Robert Rohde
Wow, someone had more than 10,000 edits in February of 2002.
Does it look to anyone else like the first five months of 2007 and 2008 were very busy, followed by a drop for the rest of the year? If that is whats happened, any theories as to why?
Nathan
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 5:32 AM, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
Because myself and others have been frustrated by the lack of good stats on the number of active editors on the English Wikipedia, I have compiled some stats on the editing frequency on enwiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_frequency
I am going to forgo any extensive analysis for now. But I will say that these trends mostly mirror trends seen elsewhere, with a peak in early 2007 followed by a decline and then leveling out as we go towards the present.
In September, 130,000 registered users and 525,000 anons made at least one edit to an article. If you define "active editors" as those making at least 20 article edits per month then 14000 registered users and 6000 anons met that threshold in September.
-Robert Rohde
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On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
Wow, someone had more than 10,000 edits in February of 2002.
Does it look to anyone else like the first five months of 2007 and 2008 were very busy, followed by a drop for the rest of the year? If that is whats happened, any theories as to why?
Nathan
Summer break for students would be the obvious reason.
Or just good weather, generally.
You might find the inverse if you look only at Southern Hemisphere IPs.
Thanks, Pharos
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 5:32 AM, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
Because myself and others have been frustrated by the lack of good stats on the number of active editors on the English Wikipedia, I have compiled some stats on the editing frequency on enwiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_frequency
I am going to forgo any extensive analysis for now. But I will say that these trends mostly mirror trends seen elsewhere, with a peak in early 2007 followed by a decline and then leveling out as we go towards the present.
In September, 130,000 registered users and 525,000 anons made at least one edit to an article. If you define "active editors" as those making at least 20 article edits per month then 14000 registered users and 6000 anons met that threshold in September.
-Robert Rohde
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If that were the major reason, wouldn't you expect to see a return to former levels in the last four months?
Nathan
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.comwrote:
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
Wow, someone had more than 10,000 edits in February of 2002.
Does it look to anyone else like the first five months of 2007 and 2008
were
very busy, followed by a drop for the rest of the year? If that is whats happened, any theories as to why?
Nathan
Summer break for students would be the obvious reason.
Or just good weather, generally.
You might find the inverse if you look only at Southern Hemisphere IPs.
Thanks, Pharos
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
If that were the major reason, wouldn't you expect to see a return to former levels in the last four months?
Nathan
Not necessarily. We have to think about psychological dynamics here.
It may well be the case that many students "quit" Wikipedia for the summer, and only take it up again after winter break, when they are more settled into their academic routine than in the fall.
Thanks, Pharos
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.comwrote:
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
Wow, someone had more than 10,000 edits in February of 2002.
Does it look to anyone else like the first five months of 2007 and 2008
were
very busy, followed by a drop for the rest of the year? If that is whats happened, any theories as to why?
Nathan
Summer break for students would be the obvious reason.
Or just good weather, generally.
You might find the inverse if you look only at Southern Hemisphere IPs.
Thanks, Pharos
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Nathan wrote:
Wow, someone had more than 10,000 edits in February of 2002.
That's probably "Conversion script". :)
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