On Sep 25, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Michael Guss &lt;mguss(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: Yeah, I don't know if we want to say "help us understand" in the social media post. I prefer we lead with: "Today, we are releasing a new dataset <http://datasets.wikimedia.org/public-datasets/enwiki/etc/joined_editor_months.all.tsv.bz2> (documentation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Monthly_wikimedia_editor_activity_dataset>) to invite community members and researchers to join us in analyzing this trend" for Fb/G On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Joe Sutherland &lt;jsutherland(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:jsutherland@wikimedia.org>> wrote: Looks good, though I'm not sure where the "help us understand" bit comes in. Is that just to qualify that we don't have a cause? On 25 September 2015 at 18:48, Ed Erhart &lt;eerhart(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:eerhart@wikimedia.org>> wrote: Hi all, We just published "Wikipedia’s very active editor numbers have stabilized—delve into the data with us" to the blog. Thanks to Aaron, Neil, and Dario for their help with the post! Proposed social media messages: Facebook/Google+/Twitter: The English Wikipedia's number of very active editors appears to have stabilized. Help us understand why. -- Ed Erhart Editorial Associate Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Social-media mailing list Social-media(a)lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Social-media@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media> -- Joe Sutherland Communications Intern [remote] m: +44 (0) 7722 916 433 <tel:%2B44%20%280%29%207722%20916%20433> | t: @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu> | w: JSutherland <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)> _______________________________________________ Social-media mailing list Social-media(a)lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Social-media@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media> -- Michael Guss Research Analyst Wikimediafoundation.org mguss(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:mguss@wikimedia.org>

Fine by me—I'd just rather come up with something slightly more appealing that "hey, here's a data release." :-) --Ed On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Dario Taraborelli < dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: -- Ed Erhart Editorial Associate Wikimedia Foundation