I'm not quite sure if it's what you're looking for, but the only number I recall hearing fairly recently was Brianna's stat of 10641 new user accounts created in one 24 hour period this year for EN, and that this was a fairly standard number. There was also a breakdown of how those new accounts faired over a period of time. My quick summary of the talk: http://blog.nickj.org/2007/08/10/wikimania-2007-talk- specialcontributionsnewbies-user-study-of-newly-registered-user- behaviour/ Talk's page here: http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Proceedings:BL1 (also has link to slides) There's also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics , which shows 5,197,869 accounts, presumably since http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikipedia_day Others may have number of views per unit time, or other stats, including number of anon editors (which aren't in the above). -- All the best, Nick. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Looking at the contribs of some of the new users is, um, entertaining. It will be interesting to see the half-life of things like this http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? title=Franz_Carr&diff=154421232&oldid=141980752 and this http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? title=Wei_Yan&diff=prev&oldid=154420793

Jim On Aug 29, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Jim Hu wrote: