[Wikimedia-l] [WikiEN-l] "How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit", _The Atlantic_

[Andreas Kolbe]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> There's no great drop in the number of editors:
>>
>>
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ENglish_Wikipedia_active_users_%28September_2011%29.png
>>
>
>
> See
>
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm
>
> Editors making 100+ edits a month in English Wikipedia were at 5,000+ in
> early 2007, and are now down to less than 3,500.
>
> German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Polish core editor numbers are
> stable, on the other hand:
>
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaDE.htm
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaFR.htm
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaES.htm
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaPT.htm
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaPL.htm
>
> Russian is booming:
>
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaRU.htm
>
> Japanese (another project with a strong popular culture bias) is declining
> too:
>
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaJA.htm
>
> Another interesting variable is editor retention, measured as the
> percentage of all Wikipedians who still make 100 or more edits a month:
>
> 0.45% in English WP
> 0.59% in Japanese WP
> 0.73% in Spanish WP
> 0.90% in German WP*
> 0.99% in Polish WP*
> 1.01% in French WP
> 1.49% in Russian WP*
>
> * The German, Polish and Russian Wikipedias have flagged revisions. (I am
> currently looking at this data to see if there is a correlation between
> flagged revisions and editor retention.)
>
> Andreas
>
>
I forgot to add the editor retention figure in Portuguese WP: it's 0.62%,
based on the latest reported month (April 2012).