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

[Andreas Kolbe]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com>wrote:

> Andreas Kolbe, 10/01/2013 19:21:
>
> > Open these two pages:
> >
> > http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/**ChartsWikipediaFR.htm<http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaFR.htm>
> > http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/**ChartsWikipediaEN.htm<http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaEN.htm>
> >
> > Each has four bar charts with yellow bars. Ignore the top two charts.
> Focus
> > on the third and fourth charts with yellow bars.
> >
> > Random fluctuations aside, the ones for French show a consistent upward
> > trend.
>
> They don't.
>


Are you willing to concede that they look *markedly* different from the
English ones, and don't show a clear downward trend starting in 2007, as
the English ones do? :))

Andreas