Italian Wikipedia recently started an experiment to enable anonymous
editing for its editors. Many thanks to Florian and Nemo for making
this happen!
They enabled it on the 1st November so now we have a month of data let
me state about what we've found.
For the month of November anonymous edits counted for 50% of all edits
on Italian Wikipedia and increased the average number of edits by
roughly 55%.
Average edits before switch was 1688
Average edits after switch was 2619
Logged in editing took a slight dive as a result of this - 1687 edits
were coming from logged in users before to 1305
The graph [1] shows not too much impact to the current trend for
editing from logged in users but it's clear that anonymous editing
does bring in slightly more edits, but not a radical amount to get us
excited about.
Florian has recently written a patch that simplifies the workflow for
editing such that clicking edit loads a screen with anon editing, sign
in and sign up options. It will be interesting to see if this effects
the data at all.
Can anyone from the Italian community analyse the types of anonymous
edits that were made in the month of November and comment on what % of
those got reverted / were bad edits?
I've included the data [1] (should be public) for anyone to analyse
and pick apart.
[1]
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1k3QaksUtkSA7s2W-bMhvE8hYF9hT_OBW4tn…