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From: Daniel and Elizabeth Case
Date: 3 April 2011 14:44
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Just a little contrarianism on this ...
Should we be worried about the trendline in newer editors (and more on
this below) or the trendline in total edits,
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 5:33 PM, David Gerard wrote:
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> Certainly someone else can do more formal research and come up with
> actual numbers. But as for me I think it's ridiculous at worst and
> premature at best to say that new users are becoming less sticky when,
> it seems to me, they have in
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 09:53, Bence Damokos wrote:
>> The study examined those people who have registered and made at least one
> edit, and the ratio of the people who stuck on after their first edit has
> gone down, which is the basis of concern.
Bence, I think the question is: what reason is th
We've not had SUL (Single User Login) for that long, and my impression is
that this will tend to inflate the number of registered accounts compared
with the number of active accounts. Many such editors will still stay on to
edit their home wiki, without ever editing WP, except perhaps as a test
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 06:33:32PM +0100, Phil Nash wrote:
> We've not had SUL (Single User Login) for that long, and my impression is
> that this will tend to inflate the number of registered accounts compared
> with the number of active accounts.
Yes, due to the sheer number of accounts that
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:51, Isabell Long wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 06:33:32PM +0100, Phil Nash wrote:
>> We've not had SUL (Single User Login) for that long, and my impression is
>> that this will tend to inflate the number of registered accounts compared
>> with the number of active acco
Or they can be people scared away by unfriendly welcome :) There are many
reasons, and it's hard to guess. The best is still to have a range of
criteria, and see where they differ. As far as I understand the trend
remains the same in all evaluated criteria, although the steepness differs.
Lodewijk
