Wow, someone had more than 10,000 edits in February of 2002. Does it look to anyone else like the first five months of 2007 and 2008 were very busy, followed by a drop for the rest of the year? If that is whats happened, any theories as to why?
Nathan On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 5:32 AM, Robert Rohde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because myself and others have been frustrated by the lack of good > stats on the number of active editors on the English Wikipedia, I have > compiled some stats on the editing frequency on enwiki: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_frequency > > I am going to forgo any extensive analysis for now. But I will say > that these trends mostly mirror trends seen elsewhere, with a peak in > early 2007 followed by a decline and then leveling out as we go > towards the present. > > In September, 130,000 registered users and 525,000 anons made at least > one edit to an article. If you define "active editors" as those > making at least 20 article edits per month then 14000 registered users > and 6000 anons met that threshold in September. > > -Robert Rohde > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Your donations keep Wikipedia running! Support the Wikimedia Foundation today: http://www.wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
