On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Ian Woollard
<ian.woollard(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
See
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm
Editors making 100+ edits a month in English Wikipedia were at 5,000+ in
early 2007, and are now down to less than 3,500.
German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Polish core editor numbers are
stable, on the other hand:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaDE.htm
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaFR.htm
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaES.htm
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaPT.htm
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaPL.htm
Russian is booming:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaRU.htm
Japanese (another project with a strong popular culture bias) is declining
too:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaJA.htm
Another interesting variable is editor retention, measured as the
percentage of all Wikipedians who still make 100 or more edits a month:
0.45% in English WP
0.59% in Japanese WP
0.73% in Spanish WP
0.90% in German WP*
0.99% in Polish WP*
1.01% in French WP
1.49% in Russian WP*
* The German, Polish and Russian Wikipedias have flagged revisions. (I am
currently looking at this data to see if there is a correlation between
flagged revisions and editor retention.)
Andreas
I forgot to add the editor retention figure in Portuguese WP: it's 0.62%,
based on the latest reported month (April 2012).