Re: [Wiki-research-l] Minor stats on Wikipedia

2012-11-01 Thread John Vandenberg
On Nov 1, 2012 9:28 AM, "Piotr Konieczny" wrote: > > > On 10/31/2012 6:34 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: >> >> Piotr Konieczny, 31/10/2012 23:08: >>> >>> Would anyone have/know where to find any of the following estimates for >> >> >>> * of Wikipedians with a userpage >> >> >> http://stats.wikime

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Minor stats on Wikipedia

2012-11-01 Thread michael w
This issue of sufficient participation does appear of rising concern to wikipedia's survival following our first community peak in ~2007 and has brought my attention back to the project after some years of inactivity. In my opinion, revisions to the interface will be central to eliciting more non-

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Minor stats on Wikipedia

2012-10-31 Thread Piotr Konieczny
On 10/31/2012 6:34 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Piotr Konieczny, 31/10/2012 23:08: Would anyone have/know where to find any of the following estimates for * of Wikipedians with a userpage http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm#namespaces gives you the number of pages in Us

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Minor stats on Wikipedia

2012-10-31 Thread Piotr Konieczny
Good point, I myself have over 10 userpace pages. If this list gives includes subpages, it is certainly an overestimate. It might be possible to figure out an acceptable range (there is probably a correlation factor between number of edits and number of subpages), but it would be guesstimate, r

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Minor stats on Wikipedia

2012-10-31 Thread WereSpielChequers
Which language version of Wikipedia are you interested in? If is English then column B in http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm gives you new editors by month up to September - just tot up the most recent twelve to get a figure as at the start of October. However I'd add a word of c

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Minor stats on Wikipedia

2012-10-31 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Piotr Konieczny, 31/10/2012 23:08: Would anyone have/know where to find any of the following estimates for English Wikipedia, either as a number or as % of the total population of editors (which is known): Not exactly, but: * of people who edited Wikipedia anonymously http://stats.wikimedia