Hi! In economics there is a business cycle with ups and downs. This is a naturally process that also exists in the number of editors. If there would be a trend that only exists in more and more users editing, just like the dot-com buble <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble>, a growth that is too large collapses at some point as the existing community can't handle it.
In multiple years I have given workshops and edit-a-thons where new editors learned how to edit. They all are very interested in continuing with it. But for some reason they actually did not. Asking why received in a very simple answer: on Wikipedia it lacks of an environment where new users can actually work together in an easy way, where they can form a group and easily follow the group edits, having a joint project, etc. They experience that after an workshop, they walk into a large wiki where it is not easy to start from blank, they experience the doorstep as too high. As long as this issue, noticed with many many groups of new editors, is not solved, the core problem is not solved. And beyond that issue, there are also other issues we can think of, including how newcomers are treated, or the difficulties of online communication, and more. There is a lot of work to do before I think we can be really positive about the number of users. Not to be negative, but to be realistic. As movement we should work together on getting a more social environment. Greetings, Romaine 2015-09-10 16:21 GMT+02:00 WereSpielChequers <[email protected]>: > A quick follow up to the signpost article of a couple of weeks ago > < > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-08-26/In_focus > >We > now have the August figures > <https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaZZ.htm>, and August has > continued what we might reasonably start calling the new trend. The English > Wikipedia has more editors with 100 or more live edits in mainspace than > for any August since 2010. Across all Wikipedias combined the figures are > up almost as steeply with a near 10% increase on August 2014, though this > doesn't quite get us back to 2012 levels. > > We aren't out of the woods yet as other metrics are still declining, for > example both new accounts and editors making 5 or more saves are both down > across Wikipedia generally when comparing August 2015 with 2014. > > But it's nice to have one metric be positive. > > Regards > > > WereSpielChequers > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
