Research:Rise in very active editors (2015)
The number of very active editors (100+ edits per month) seems to be rising across languages and in English Wikipedia in particular. Measurements that compare monthly counts year-over-year suggest that the number of very active editors in 2015 is consistently higher than the number of highly active editors in 2014. This rise is very interesting when considering previous work studying Wikipedia's declining active editor population[1]. This page serves as an aggregation of hypotheses and analyses into the cause of this apparent rise.
Hypotheses[edit]
Carrying capacity[edit]
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Dead cat bounce[edit]
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Mobile editor acquisition[edit]
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HHVM performance improvements[edit]
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Datasets[edit]
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Research projects[edit]
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