Hi John,
Thanks for these details...
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, at 13:19, John Mark Vandenberg wrote:
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.