Sage Ross wrote:
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Howie Fung hfung@wikimedia.org wrote:
Just making sure I understand the data below. I'm assuming this means there are 13,959,842 total accounts in the English Wikipedia?
Interesting because there are a total of 651,652 cumulative "New Wikipedians" (users with >=10 lifetime edits) as of Dec 2010. Which would mean that only 4.7% of all registered accounts qualify to be considered "New Wikipedian," so the vast majority of our accounts are for readers?
Yep, that lines up about right with my understanding of the editor activity distribution. When someone starts editing, they are very likely to stop after one edit.
-Sage
And many don't even perform one edit. As I don't believe so many people create them just to change their preferences, it is a mistery for me why do they do so.