[Wikimedia-l] User retention statistics?

[Risker]

Perhaps this page, with results, might be helpful as well:
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Community_Health/Survey

Risker

On 18 April 2012 17:22, Philippe Beaudette <philippe at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Yaroslav -
>
> You'll probably find background for some of this on the strategy wiki -
> that's the community health group that you're thinking about. :-)
>
> This is a survey in particular that might interest you:
>
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Community_Health/Former_contributors_survey
>
> Also, Zack has some statistics from the Summer of Research, I think, on the
> other questions you ask.  You might write him.
>
> pb
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>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru
> >wrote:
>
> > My message is inspired by discussion in this thread (
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Wikipedia:Administrators%27_**
> > noticeboard#Loss_of_more_and_**more_and_more_established_**
> > editors_and_administrators<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Loss_of_more_and_more_and_more_established_editors_and_administrators
> >)
> > on Englush Wikipedia. Whereas the thread itself is not relevant to this
> > list, and the points get re-iterated on a regular basis, there were
> > statements made there which contain quantitative estimates (for instance
> > that 90% established users who leave do it because they get a new job or
> > have their external life changed in some other way, and not because of
> > harassment etc). Most probably these numbers are not really justified,
> but
> > then I wanted to know what real numbers are. I am an Rcom member, but I
> can
> > not recollect such research being accomplished (I might be wrong of
> > course). I could not find data easily either (I spent half an hour
> because
> > I remembered we had a Community Health initiative group which somehow
> > evolved into the Movement Roles, but the Movement Roles pages on Meta do
> > not talk about community health at all, and I could not even find an
> > appropriate page to ask the question).
> >
> > After this long introduction, does somebody know / can point out the
> > answers to the questions:
> >
> > 1. What is the average lifetime of a Wikipedia editor (for instance the
> > one with at leat 1000 contributions)? I recollect smth about two years,
> but
> > I am pretty sure I have never seen any research on this. How does it
> depend
> > on the number of contributions?
> >
> > 2. What are the main reasons why these editors stop editing? Is this
> > correct, for instance, that external reasons are much more important than
> > internal (on-wiki troubles and wiki-related harassment) reasons? The same
> > for say those above 10000 edits?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Cheers
> > Yaroslav
> >
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