Re: [Wiki-research-l] Has the recent increase in English wikipedia's core community gone beyond a statistical blip?

2015-08-23 Thread WereSpielChequers
Hi Nemo, Month-over-month growth isn't what I was talking about, not least because the seasonal stuff and different month lengths override that. What I noticed was that Jan 2015 the 100 edits count was ahead of Jan 2014, as was every month until June 2015 which was ahead of June 2014

[Wiki-research-l] Notes from OpenSym @ Wikimedia Research meeting.

2015-08-23 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Hey folks, Since OpenSym was in San Francisco this year, we welcomed researchers working in the Wikimedia space to join us for breakfast at the Wikimedia Foundation on the morning after the conference. During this event, we shook hands with made a few quick presentations about ongoing projects

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Has the recent increase in English wikipedia's core community gone beyond a statistical blip?

2015-08-23 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
WereSpielChequers, 15/08/2015 15:12: With 8% more editors contributing over 100 edits in June 2015 than in June 2014 https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm, we have now had six consecutive months where this particular metric of the core community is looking positive. I'm not sure