[Foundation-l] Fwd: A lack of newbies that stick

[Phil Nash]

We've not had SUL (Single User Login) for that long, and my impression is 
that this will tend to inflate the number of registered accounts compared 
with the number of active accounts. Many such editors will still stay on to 
edit their home wiki, without ever editing WP, except perhaps as a test  Has 
this been taken into account?

Phil

Bence Damokos wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 5:33 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Certainly someone else can do more formal research and come up with
>> actual numbers. But as for me I think it's ridiculous at worst and
>> premature at best to say that new users are becoming less sticky
>> when, it seems to me, they have in fact never been particularly
>> sticky.
>>
>> The study examined those people who have registered and made at
>> least one
> edit, and the ratio of the people who stuck on after their first edit
> has gone down, which is the basis of concern.
>
> (There are and have always been many more people who have registered
> but never got to edit, and many who never registered but still
> edited, it would be interesting to see if there is any change in
> proportion over time.)
>
> Best regards,
> Bence
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