On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 2:05 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)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. :)
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil