User:LArron/test

Doctor Dark asked: ''Thanks as always for pulling the data together. I have assumed that the rising trend toward the end of each year is due to Eduzendium students (who almost never stay around after their assignments are completed). Is there any way to know whether this is in fact the case?''

First, the Eduzendium students have to be identified: Luckily, they all belong to the cz:Category:Eduzendium Authors, one of the workgroups at Citizendium. This leads to a closer look at the workgroups: According to cz:CZ:Workgroups, there are 42 workgroups at Citizendium. The 43rd was the now defunct Healing Arts: it is still used by some authors. Not only for sentimental reason, but just for fun, I'll include Healing Arts in all of the following observations ;-)

At cz:CZ:Workgroups, the workgroups are organized in seven classes (I call them super-groups): cz:Category:Eduzendium Authors belongs together with cz:Category:Topic Informant and cz:Category:Technical Team to the super-group Project. Luckily, the latter two groups are empty, so each member of Project is just an Eduzendium author.

There is a color-code for the super-groups, which I will use, too:  Natural Sciences, Social Sciences , Humanities ,  Arts , Applied Arts and Sciences  and  Recreation . Surprisingly, Project has no color, so I use black instead. If I want to highlight something which doesn't belong to any super-group, I'll use  grey .

Any author may belong to no group at all, to one or many groups, and even to a couple of super-groups (or to all, without having made any comment: cz:User:Haakon Storm Heen). That's a little bit unfortunate for my graphs: I'd like to link any author to exactly one super-group. So in the case of being a member in various super-groups, I settled with the super-group which has the least number of members. This is of course quite arbitrary: as you may spot, another way would have been to look at the number of workgroups in a super-group in which the author is inscribed. But as Project is such a small super-group (~220 members), it guarantees that any Eduznedium Author is firstly seen as a member of this super-group.

Quite an intro, here come the pics:

The Eduzendium authors aren't that prolific, only 6% of the edits made in Nov 2011 were done by them.

This is true in general - only during a few month the contributions of the Eduzendium students are visible.

But the number of students itself is not negligible at all: they have quite an impact on the number of unique editors. I think I remember a quote of someone saying something along the lines: since Berkowitz is done, the number of editors has gone up: it seems that the influx of students plays a significant role in the recovering of these numbers.

I don't know whether an Eduzendium author at some time shuns his or her humble origins by eliminating the category from the user-page. At least the number of editors who keep there category and are still editing today seems to be quite small: there is one from 2009 left in Nov 2011.

Here the membership in the various workgroups and super-groups of those who edited in Nov 2011 can be seen (those who don't belong to any group are on display.)

00:05, 9 December 2011 (UTC)