[Foundation-l] Differences between projects with common versus highly diverse cultural backgrounds (was Re: Pending Changes)

[Andreas Kolbe]

Here's the Russian cherry tree ;)

http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaRU.htm

FR introduction in August 2008, per Victoria's post. 

The Russian project got going a little later than de:WP and en:WP, so the initial growth phase started later, too. 

Growth has been steady, but no marked leap either way in August 2008.

A.

--- On Thu, 30/9/10, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Differences between projects with common versus highly diverse cultural backgrounds (was Re: Pending Changes)
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Date: Thursday, 30 September, 2010, 18:23
> On 30 September 2010 04:02, Andreas
> Kolbe <jayen466 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Anne,
> >
> > Thanks for the extra perspective. The post-2007
> decline in 100+ editors on
> > en:WP may indeed reflect a decline in vandalism
> reverts.
> >
> > The most interesting point to me was that de:WP
> introduced flagged
> > revisions in spring 2008, across the board, and that
> editor numbers appear
> > to have remained completely unaffected. In de:WP, at
> least, overall
> > participation levels did not *drop* as a result of
> flagged revisions.
> >
> 
> It would be interesting to figure out if the number (or
> precentage) of
> editors with 500+ and 1000+ edits a month has risen or
> declined over the
> same period for these projects. I'd expect en:WP's to
> follow much the same
> peak-and-decline as the 100+ edits, but I don't know enough
> about de:WP's
> typical editing practices to venture a guess there.
> 
> Interestingly, one of the "selling points" of FR has been
> the likelihood of
> increasing the editor base, presumably of editors who carry
> out 100+ edits a
> month. The de:WP experience seems to contradict that, which
> I admit
> surprises me.  Perhaps that is one metric to take off
> the table when
> evaluating the effects of PC on en:WP.
> 
> Risker/Anne
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