[Foundation-l] EN Wikipedia Editing Statistics

[Pharos]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Summer break for students would be the obvious reason.

Or just good weather, generally.

You might find the inverse if you look only at Southern Hemisphere IPs.

Thanks,
Pharos

> 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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