Hi John,
Thanks for these details...
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, at 13:19, John Mark Vandenberg wrote:
See the graphs for 5+ editors here:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikibooks/EN/ChartsWikipediaZZ.htm http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikiquote/EN/ChartsWikipediaZZ.htm http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/ChartsWikipediaZZ.htm
I find it humorous that this page says "number of Wikipedians" for some other language editions.
It is wikinews that
Careful about wording there. "English" Wikinews. Other language editions are different.
has been loosing contributors since mid 2008, and
And obtaining too -- the stats show the sum of those who joined and those who left I believe.
new articles per day has dropped since late 2010.
That's around when they introduced the peer review. (Again, just the English version.)
Wikibooks contributor count fluctuates a lot.
Wikiquote is fairly static, but using a constant number of contributors to justify 'stagnant' isnt accurate. The content metrics of Wikiquote indicate it is still growing, at a fairly constant rate.
Right; I'm personally quite disliking these statistics, as the software has no means implemented to merge edits, such as when I make a typo. I keep struggling to find means to reduce the edit count to make things easier for others to track.
Gryllida.