Hi John, Thanks for these details...
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, at 13:19, John Mark Vandenberg wrote: > See the graphs for 5+ editors here: > > http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikibooks/EN/ChartsWikipediaZZ.htm > http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikiquote/EN/ChartsWikipediaZZ.htm > http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/ChartsWikipediaZZ.htm I find it humorous that this page says "number of Wikipedians" for some other language editions. > > It is wikinews that Careful about wording there. "English" Wikinews. Other language editions are different. > has been loosing contributors since mid 2008, and And obtaining too -- the stats show the sum of those who joined and those who left I believe. > new articles per day has dropped since late 2010. That's around when they introduced the peer review. (Again, just the English version.) > > Wikibooks contributor count fluctuates a lot. > > Wikiquote is fairly static, but using a constant number of > contributors to justify 'stagnant' isnt accurate. The content metrics > of Wikiquote indicate it is still growing, at a fairly constant rate. Right; I'm personally quite disliking these statistics, as the software has no means implemented to merge edits, such as when I make a typo. I keep struggling to find means to reduce the edit count to make things easier for others to track. Gryllida. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>