[Foundation-l] EN Wikipedia Editing Statistics

[Robert Rohde]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Erik Zachte <erikzachte at infodisiac.com> wrote:
> English -> English dump
>
>> 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:
>
> No worries: in only 176 days from now the English dump will be ready and I
> can run wikistats scripts on it.
> It just started 52 days ago, so let us be patient for a while ;)

Is there any reason at all to believe that it is more likely to finish
this time than all the previous attempts during the last two years?

I have virtually zero faith in a script that takes 230 days and where
any error wipes out all progress.

-Robert Rohde