I am not a statistician, but I did throw some numbers together to create an overall metric
for the
editing growth of en:Wikipedia. The idea is thus: How many "active editors" do
we have at any
given time, and how much are they actually editing at any given time? Find a way to put
both on
the same graph and you have a slick graph without getting buried in detail.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wiki_editing_growth_guide.png
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:En_wikipedia_overall_editing_growth…
Start at (0,0) and follow the arrowheads that indicate time progression. (Loop-d-loops
are
possible, but didn't show up.) I used numbers from a toolserver page and did some
simple
manipulation and plotting.
In short: Wikipedia, as of a year ago, was attracting more editors each month while
keeping up an
average of 115 edits/month/Wikipedian.
Hope this helps,
George
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