Hi Anders,
On 23 November 2014 at 14:59, Anders Wennersten mail@anderswennersten.se wrote:
The decline in editors are among the steepest of any community *Editors* *Country* *Wikipedia* *1 October 2012* *1 October 2013* *1 October 2014* All editors Deutschland German 14,740 13,484 12,720 Active (5+/mo) 5,290 4,661 4,301
while, as I said, I have no particular interest in defending WMDE and have not even read their proposal, let me say that I would find that a preposterous measure of success/failure. You can't just look at a time series of the number of editors and say "good trend -> congrats, chapter" / "bad trend -> oh, guess the chapter did a bad job". What tells you that if a project is experiencing a 10% decline of its editor base from year 1 to year 2 that it wouldn't have lost 20% without the chapter's activities?
(I did not have the impression though that this is what FDC staff meant with "has not demonstrated past impact".)
Patrik