Piotr,
if you are interested in getting fresh figures about lifetime edit counts I
recommend you register an account on the toolserver where you can run queries
against the user table (which holds cumulative edit counts across all
namespaces for a specific wiki). For namespace-specific counts
Hi Piotr,
You might make the assumption that the difference between 4 million and 16
million is largely editors who never get out of userspace, my experience is
that such users are relatively rare, or at least won't dominate that 12
million.
I'm fairly sure that there will be a number of differen
The majority of registered accounts on en-WP are likely to never have
edited (some of them are perhaps autocreated by someone who's home
Wikipedia is not English), or they edited an article that has since
been deleted, and are therefore listed with no edits. In October 2010
I gathered some data fo
Thanks for the link. The figure 4,058,477 you cite (from
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm#editdistribution),
as you note, comes with the warning that "Only article edits are
counted, not edits on discussion pages, etc". I assume this is why the
magic word NUMBEROFUSERSat en W
I'm not sure that we have exactly what your asking for.
For example we have the figure of 4,058,477 but that is for registered
accounts on the English Wikipedia that have made at least one edit to an
article. Different language versions of Wikipedia are also available, but
of course registered acc
