[Foundation-l] EN Wikipedia Editing Statistics

[Nathan]

Wow, someone had more than 10,000 edits in February of 2002.

Does it look to anyone else like the first five months of 2007 and 2008 were
very busy, followed by a drop for the rest of the year? If that is whats
happened, any theories as to why?

Nathan

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 5:32 AM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:

> Because myself and others have been frustrated by the lack of good
> stats on the number of active editors on the English Wikipedia, I have
> compiled some stats on the editing frequency on enwiki:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_frequency
>
> I am going to forgo any extensive analysis for now.  But I will say
> that these trends mostly mirror trends seen elsewhere, with a peak in
> early 2007 followed by a decline and then leveling out as we go
> towards the present.
>
> In September, 130,000 registered users and 525,000 anons made at least
> one edit to an article.  If you define "active editors" as those
> making at least 20 article edits per month then 14000 registered users
> and 6000 anons met that threshold in September.
>
> -Robert Rohde
>
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