[Wikimedia-l] Updates on VE data analysis

[James Salsman]

Steven Walling wrote:

>... We know, for instance, that as the summer progresses,
> editing activity drops and climbs again in the fall....

How do we know that? According to
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm database edits
increased from June to July and fell from July to September in the past two
years.

I'm sure things will improve as the visual editor is debugged, but anyone
who thinks it is an improvement at present needs a wider perspective.