RationalWiki talk:Active users

Article as of June 11, 2015


This is the ongoing analysis of RationalWiki's active (and not-so-active) editors. The table here, which breaks down an editor's contributions into specific months, calculates an average edit rate, and determines how "active" an editor is using real numbers (mostly integers).

Statistics are valid up to last month.

Ratings
These numbers are a rough guide to how these labels are applied. Contributions during the most recent three months have been selected as one of the criteria for assigning an "activity level": Out of &asymp; 9,300 editors who have left their mark on RationalWiki, 847 did so over the last three months, showing various degrees of activity:

The busiest 50 of these editors can be found in the following table.

User chart

 * Averages are calculated from the time of the first edit to the last edit. The recent average is the average of the last three months and editors must have made a minimum of 100 edits.


 * A blank, rather than a 0, denotes the time before a user registered with RationalWiki.
 * The little [[Image:sort_none.gif]] buttons allow you to sort the table by any column! One click for ascending, a second click for descending.
 * Sysops' user names are shown in bold. Here on RationalWiki, Sysops are most of the users.

Active Editors Statistics at RationalWiki
RationalWiki's own page statistics includes the entry active users. Those are defined as "users who have performed an action in the last 7 days," while at the equivalent statistics page on Wikipedia, this period is set for 30 days. For instance, on June 5th, 2009, RationalWiki counted 140 active users, while Wikipedia had 158,605. Calculating these numbers for both time periods yields this graph (though, for the graph only those users are counted which made at least one edit, and not only performed blocks or other log-only activity).