On 22 September 2010 04:27, Andre Engels <andreeng...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Lennart Guldbrandsson > <wikihanni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Did you know that less than a third of the users who create an account on > > English Wikipedia make even *one* edit afterwards? Two-thirds of all new > > accounts never edit! Interestingly, this percentage vary very much from > > language version to language version. > > > > Now, the question is not: "what can we do about it?" We know plenty of > > things that we *could* do. The question is this: "what are the easiest > > levers to push that increase the numbers?" > > I think we need to take a step back first. Before deciding on what to > do about this, two other questions have to be asked: > > 1. Why are people creating an account without editing? > 2. Do we want/need to do something about it? > > There are various reasons why people could register without editing. > To name a few: > * people coming in from other Wikimedia wikis, auto-registering through SUL > I think Andre is right, and this is the reason for so many non-editing accounts, especially since SUL. I am sure someone can run a script to determine how many "non-editing" English WP accounts have a partner "editing" account on another project. Risker/Anne _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
