On 12/7/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
Those two are, quite obviously, difficult to measure.
Indeed, it is
very hard to come up with appropriate simple metrics, and so I think
what we need to do instead is take a holistic approach. We have a rough
idea of the tradeoffs here, and we can see if things are working out the
way we expect.
" * As a new page patroller, the new system does seem to be working.
It's pleasant to be spending more time fixing useful articles, and less
time getting rid of newbie tests. Kappa 15:25, 6 December 2005 (UTC)"
That's a valid voice. But only one. What problems are we seeing?
Netoholic gathered some first-pass statistics:
Before After
New pages 2050 1622
Article deletions 1309 929
New users 3241 6370 (!)
The increase in number of users seems out of proportion; he theorizes
that this has more to do with our massive press coverage than anything
else. It'll like some more time to really assess this.
What's the time period here? We should continue this listing here.
It looks like this change may increase the percentage of "dead" accounts.
Other statistics of interest would be the percentage of IP to registered edits.