[Wikimedia-l] What community initiatives have made an impact on editor engagement?

[Denny Vrandečić]

Wait - removing the captchas lead to a decrease of reverted edits in terms
of absolute numbers? Woot? Anyone has an explanation for that?




2013/7/5 Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com>

> The recent community initiative with the highest impact I can think of is
> surely what Platonides and other members of the global (technical)
> community did on pt.wiki. Platonides noticed a configuration error on
> pt.wiki: CAPTCHA was required for all edits since 2008. The error was fixed
> in April. <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.**org/41745<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/41745>
> >
>
> Fresh stats produced by the WMF show that in May and June this produced a
> decrease of overall vandalism (or rather, of reverted edits) with a
> shocking +58 % increase of productive edits by IPs and +23 % for registered
> users. It seems pt.wiki may see the end of the decline after many years. :)
> <https://pt.wikipedia.org/w/**index.php?title=Usu%C3%A1rio(**
> a):HAndrade_(WMF)/Pesquisa_**Vandalismo/Segunda_Fase&oldid=**36301585<https://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Usu%C3%A1rio(a):HAndrade_(WMF)/Pesquisa_Vandalismo/Segunda_Fase&oldid=36301585>
> >
>
> Discussion is ongoing on how pt.wiki will address this growth. Part of the
> community may think that "nao estamos preparados para crescer".
> <https://pt.wikipedia.org/**wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Projetos/**
> Wikip%C3%A9dia/Reuni%C3%B5es/**Reuni%C3%A3o_IRC_21-06-2013<https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Projetos/Wikip%C3%A9dia/Reuni%C3%B5es/Reuni%C3%A3o_IRC_21-06-2013>
> >
>
> Nemo
>
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