On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
Summer break for students would be the obvious reason. Or just good weather, generally. You might find the inverse if you look only at Southern Hemisphere IPs. Thanks, Pharos > 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 > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
