User talk:WereSpielChequers/2012-2016 Editor retention test

This is the talkpage for both the 12-16 and 10-14 versions of the test. As they are intended to be multiple looks at the same thing I'd like to centralise talk on one page.

DYK

• I've added DYK creators for one day (31st) in August 2014. This could be expanded to include earlier days in the month for a more statistically significant sample. Edwardx (talk) 18:39, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

DYK is interesting, not least because it has been through at least two controversial phases in that era, and that should in theory have driven some editors away. But also because it is still one of the more open parts of the community, so some of the people there may have been in their first thousand edits. It would be good to expand it , but could you also subdivide it into people at DYK who had 1,000 edits by the end of August 2010 and those who didn't? If my theory is correct the retnention rate should be better for those who already had reached the 1,000 arbitrary edit threshold. ϢereSpielChequers 08:31, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

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Sorry for the weirdness of an edit here after all this time, but I ran across the page, thought it was interesting, started playing...hope that's how Wikipedia works :) Hope you don't mind, in case you are still interested in these kinds of stats. I wondered if it would be interesting to look at the Teahouse but since it wasn't in operation in 2010, have timeshifted the interval to get one of the same length. Really hoping I just picked a bad day for that one. 184.147.120.192 (talk) 22:25, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the examples, yes I'm still interested, maybe its time to re do this or launch a 2012-2016 version. As for the Teahouse askers, I see them as people trying Wikipedia and doing a handful of edits, some of those people may come back occasionally; but only a tiny proportion go on to become active Wikipedians for whom it is a major hobby. Retention of the regulars is a very different thing, I expect the great majority of regulars to continue for years whilst only a miniscule proportion of triallists become regulars. ϢereSpielChequers 08:24, 15 December 2016 (UTC)