New subject: Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia

5 Mar 2015

On the English language Wikipedia we definitely have a phenomenon that editors with high
edit counts will stay until a major event drives them away.

But the the threshold may not be 38,000 edits, we have 1,444 editor accounts that have
achieved that, and that may no longer be enough to commit you to the site.

The 14 editors with 500,000 or more edits are all currently active, some are still among
the most active editors on the site. Though the active definition on [[:en:WP:EDITS]] is
merely one or more edits in the last 30 days.

Of the 215 most active editors, 32 are inactive for various reasons and 7 have anonymised
themselves on the list of most active editors (though they may be active). So 80-85% of
our most active editors are still around. Possibly more when you allow for the fact that
at least one of those 32 has closed that account and now edits from another one.

Sadly our admins have not been so likely to stay with us, only 579 are still active as
admins, though of the 1500 or so former admins quite a few still edit.

Of course the length of tenure for both groups is likely to be unusual. The vast majority
of en wiki admins were appointed more than 7 years ago and it takes time to accumulate a
really high edit count. Though we have fewer editors with over 100,000 edits than we have
active admins, at current rates that will change in 2016, in recent months we are seeing
more editors  do their 100,000th edit than become admins. I suspect one of our problems is
that we have fewer ways for newish editors to feel they have become an established member
of the community. To some extent GLAM, the chapters and the education program do this, and
of course the good and Featured article processes. But we shouldn't be surprised that
fewer people are staying on after their 100th or 1000th edit, as that is the stage in
their wiki career where they are likely to think that they will never become a full member
of the community.

Regards

Jonathan/WereSpielChequers

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 On svwp there has over the years been 45 individuals who have each made 
 more then 38000 edits.
 Of these 45, 44 are still active, only one has  left (in 2009) making 
 97,7 still around. For the users with less then 38 000 edits, only about 
 6 out of 10 is still active.

 Is this a global valid number, that when you have made 38000 edits you 
 are fully addicted to Wikipedia ("until death do us part")?

 Anders

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 Hoi,
 I hope not.. If it were I am a basket case. Hmmm not Wikipedia ... does
 Wikidata count ? What number of edits would be sufficient ??
 Thanks,
     GerardM

 On 4 March 2015 at 17:44, Anders Wennersten &lt;mail(a)anderswennersten.se&gt;
 wrote:

  On svwp there has over the years been 45
individuals who have each made
 more then 38000 edits.
 Of these 45, 44 are still active, only one has  left (in 2009) making 97,7
 still around. For the users with less then 38 000 edits, only about 6 out
 of 10 is still active.

 Is this a global valid number, that when you have made 38000 edits you are
 fully addicted to Wikipedia ("until death do us part")?

 Anders  Message: 5
 Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 18:19:24 +0100
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 Il 04/03/2015 17:44, Anders Wennersten ha scritto:
  On svwp there has over the years been 45
individuals who have each 
 made more then 38000 edits.
 Of these 45, 44 are still active, only one has  left (in 2009) making 
 97,7 still around. For the users with less then 38 000 edits, only 
 about 6 out of 10 is still active.

 Is this a global valid number, that when you have made 38000 edits you 
 are fully addicted to Wikipedia ("until death do us part")?

 Anders  I've just exceeded 38000 global edits 
 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Ricordisamoa>. I'm 
 done for!