Thank you all for the replies, I need some time to process this
information.
Cheers
Yaroslav
1. What is the average lifetime of a Wikipedia editor (for instance
the
one with at leat 1000 contributions)? I recollect smth about two
years, but
I am pretty sure I have never seen any research on t
a.com/wiki/Category:Participation_trends.
Regards,
Chitu Okoli
Associate Professor in Management Information Systems
John Molson School of Business
Concordia University, Montréal
Phone: +1 (514) 993-6648
http://chitu.okoli.org/pro
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It is an interesting but complex topic.
Complications include:
1. People shift project - some of the early EN wikipedians may now be
mostly active in their own language versions of Wikipedia. The recent high
profile retirement at EN wikipedia is an editor still active on Commons
2. P
Hi,
Regarding the first question there are some studies about retention
patterns and about the editor lifetime distribution, but I am afraid
your specific question of relating lifetime to the number of
contributions was not addressed in any of them:
* The Editor Trends Study performed a long
This thread is a good candidate for wiki-research-l. Forwarding...
2012/4/18 Yaroslav M. Blanter
> My message is inspired by discussion in this thread (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Wikipedia:Administrators%27_**
> noticeboard#Loss_of_more_and_**more_and_more_established_**
> editors_and_adm
