In July 2015 Visual Editor became the default for new editors on the English language Wikipedia. [1] These tables highlight the change to numbers of newly registered editors committing their tenth edit on Wikipedia, and all registered editors committing five or more edits in months before and after that change. Changes are measured against the same month the year before in order to compensate for seasonal change and differing length of months.
Figures after June 2015 are in Italics to denote the era when WP:Visual Editor was default for new registered accounts.
Month | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | Change | percent |
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November | 6,426 | 6,528 | 102 | 1.6% | ||
December | 6,198 | 6,545 | 347 | 5.6% | ||
January | 6,385 | 6,647 | 262 | 4.1% | ||
February | 6,209 | 6,636 | 427 | 6.9% | ||
March | 6,644 | 7,445 | 801 | 12.1% | ||
April | 6,336 | 6,854 | 518 | 8.2% | ||
May | 6,825 | 6,528 | (-297) | (-4.4%) | ||
June | 6,267 | 6,357 | 90 | 1.4% | ||
July | 6,863 | 6,484 | (-379) | (-5.5%) | ||
August | 6,639 | 6,180 | (-459) | (-6.1%) | ||
September | 5,833 | 5,559 | (-274) | (-4.7%) | ||
October | 6,642 | 5,823 | (-819) | (-12.3%) | ||
November | 6,528 | 5,901 | (-627) | (-9.9%) | ||
December | 6,545 | 5,329 | (-1,216) | (-18.6%) | ||
January | 6,647 | 5,458 | (-1,189) | -17.9% | ||
February | 6,636 | 5,130 | (-1,506) | -22.7% |
Month | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | Change | percent |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
November | 6,430 | 6,525 | 95 | 1.5% | ||
December | 6,206 | 6,540 | 334 | 5.4% | ||
January | 6,382 | 6,627 | 245 | 3.8% | ||
February | 6,205 | 6,641 | 436 | 7% | ||
March | 6,640 | 7,445 | 805 | 12.1% | ||
April | 6,344 | 6,859 | 515 | 8.12% | ||
May | 6,823 | 6,504 | (-319) | (-4.68%) | ||
June | 6,255 | 6,353 | 98 | 1.57% | ||
July | 6,869 | 6,468 | (-401) | (-5.84) | ||
August | 6,638 | 6,159 | (-479) | (-7.51) | ||
September | 5,822 | 5,553 | (-269) | (-4.62) | ||
October | 6,639 | 5,797 | (-842) | (-12.68) | ||
November | 6,525 | 5,854 | (-671) | (-10.28) | ||
December | 6,540 | 5,271 | (-1,269) | (-19.40) | ||
January | 6,627 | 5,196 | (-1,431) | -21.6% |
Month | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | Change | percent |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
November | 29,788 | 30,679 | 891 | 3% | ||
December | 29,610 | 30,635 | 1,025 | 3.5% | ||
January | 31,156 | 32,326 | 1,170 | 3.8% | ||
February | 29,322 | 31,047 | 1,725 | 5.9% | ||
March | 31,213 | 34,082 | 2,869 | 9.2% | ||
April | 30,187 | 31,844 | 1,657 | 5.49% | ||
May | 31,737 | 31,456 | (-319) | (-1.01%) | ||
June | 29,854 | 30,455 | 601 | 2.01% | ||
July | 31,691 | 31,076 | (-615) | (-1.94%) | ||
August | 31,479 | 30,602 | (-877) | (-2.79%) | ||
September | 29,076 | 29,346 | 270 | -0.93% | ||
October | 31,046 | 30,424 | (-622) | (-2%) | ||
November | 30,679 | 30,408 | (-271) | (-0.88%) | ||
December | 30,635 | 29,300 | (-1,335) | (-4.36%) | ||
January | 32,326 | 30,993 | (-1,333) | -4.12% |
Other hypothesised explanations for the slump are:
All stats sourced from stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm retrieved 26/2/2016