[Wikimedia-l] Editor retention (was Re: "Big data" benefits and limitations (relevance: WMF editor engagement, fundraising, and HR practices))

[David Gerard]

On 9 January 2013 06:41, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> David Gerard, 09/01/2013 00:32:

>> I understand the decline is similar in other wikis - that this is not
>> at all just an en:wp problem.
>> How are the numbers for the other Wikipedias? How are the numbers for
>> the non-Wikipedias?

> The main pattern, ie a turning point in 2007, is the same in all projects,
> and almost in all language versions of them:
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/PlotsPngWikipediansEditsGt5.htm
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/wiktionary/EN/PlotsPngWikipediansEditsGt5.htm
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikiquote/EN/PlotsPngWikipediansEditsGt5.htm
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/PlotsPngWikipediansEditsGt5.htm
> (in order of project size/pageviews; graphs don't include recent data,
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/42318 )
> Typically the pattern is the same across all projects in the same language.
> (Almost?) all Russian projects, for instance, are an exception to decline.
> This has often made people wonder if the causes are external (Facebook?
> Facebook is also almost non-existing in Russia, right?).


Right. So anyone in this thread going into detail about en:wp policies
is actually not addressing this, and the problem is on a higher level?


- d.