On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 2:05 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I'm impressed by how many new accounts were created; 256 in a single month.
See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics#New_accounts_in_Phabricator
I'd be interested to know what typically prompts people to create accounts.
I clicked on a random selection of recently created accounts. There were several Wikimedians going after projects like Wiki Loves Earth, Wikidata, other stuff interesting for tech-savvy editors. There were some accounts without activity and without profile in mediawiki.org (but I didn't check whether those usernames had contributions in other projects) and there was at least one clear tester (spammer?) recently blocked in mw.o.
I have the impression that the significant growth is driven by editors who become aware and familiar with Phabricator, watching technical tasks closer but also getting involved in less technical projects using Phabricator as the project management tool that it is. I have no references or data to back up this assumption, sorry. :)