Active users at Citizendium

This is the ongoing analysis of Citizendium'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

monthly edits at en.citizendium.org and forum.citizendium.org

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": until now, ≈ 3,300 men and women were able to create an account at Citizendium and became authors and editors. 45 of these made a comment at en.citizendium.org over the last three months, so activity on the various filial sites (forum.citizendium.org, blog.citizendium.org) is not taken into account.

But this isn't much of a problem: though some of the forum's discussions may seem vivid as they are vicious, the number of editors involved and comments made is comparatively small. (The data for forum.citizendium.org was taken from the forum's own nice page on its stats).

Activity Rating	Edit Criteria	Nov '10	Dec '10	Jan '11	Feb '11	Mar '11	Apr '11	May '11	Jun '11	Jul '11	Aug '11	Sep '11	Oct '11	Nov '11	Dec '11	Jan '12	Feb '12	Mar '12	Apr '12	May '12	Jun '12	Jul '12	Aug '12	Sep '12	Oct '12	Nov '12	Dec '12	Jan '13	Apr '13	Jun '13	Oct '13
Übermensch	>30 per day	1	2	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Hyperactive	>10 edits per day	7	8	6	6	4	2	3	3	2	3	1	2	2	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	0	1
Very active	>3 edits per day	14	12	12	11	12	11	12	9	7	4	7	6	7	7	6	4	4	4	5	5	3	3	4	5	5	3	3	2	2	3
Active	>1 edit per day	12	16	13	11	14	18	13	10	11	7	9	9	9	9	12	10	9	8	10	10	10	9	12	2	6	7	8	5	7	5
Semi-active	>0.3 edits per day	42	42	38	23	23	25	23	14	12	15	16	16	23	22	14	15	12	11	10	7	10	11	9	16	11	9	9	7	4	5
Comatose	>0.1 edits per day	40	45	33	16	23	15	14	8	11	17	14	28	31	29	21	5	12	17	13	8	9	8	10	5	4	6	2	7	8	5
Dead	≤0.1 edits per day	97	83	77	40	50	54	54	46	32	29	36	44	43	45	63	50	42	24	29	34	37	40	45	26	19	12	20	24	23	25
Sum		213	208	180	108	127	126	119	90	75	75	83	105	115	115	118	85	80	65	68	65	70	72	81	54	46	38	43	46	44	45

The busiest 50 38 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 Citizendium.
• The little buttons allow you to sort the table by any column! One click for ascending, a second click for descending.
• Normal font indicates those who a called authors in citizendium-speak: editors without any membership in another group. All others (dark knights, wikieditors, etc.) are bold faced. Bots are shown in italics. Currently blocked editors are struck out.

# 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50

User Prior Nov 12 Dec 12 Jan 13 Feb 13 Mar 13 Apr 13 May 13 Jun 13 Jul 13 Aug 13 Sep 13 Oct 13 Total Average edits /day Recent edits /day Verdict Meg Ireland 14272 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 121 136 3027 2025 19581 8.7 56.4 Übermensch John Stephen… 13553 19 51 29 3 22 0 0 8 295 750 749 467 15946 5.5 21.4 Hyperactive Robert A. Es… 1087 427 450 397 195 11 2 158 250 756 600 134 5 4472 2.2 8 Very active Ro Thorpe 22284 129 95 164 45 100 163 355 131 185 121 127 83 23982 10.9 3.6 Very active Russell D. J… 3819 65 4 1 13 0 1 0 0 59 51 236 5 4254 2 3.2 Very active John R. Brew… 9426 3 48 32 1 2 3 1 32 265 94 59 73 10039 9.4 2.5 Active Anthony.Seba… 11573 84 57 84 85 65 86 46 28 96 62 42 36 12344 4.2 1.5 Active Martin Wyatt 45 69 54 79 51 113 83 88 44 34 59 38 16 773 1.8 1.2 Active Richard Neve… 434 73 236 172 471 318 181 13 5 21 100 0 0 2024 5.9 1.1 Active Pat Palmer 5672 5 1 1 3 7 1 2 11 22 85 6 6 5822 2.4 1.1 Active Peter Jackso… 2175 87 20 142 110 153 169 27 6 35 32 21 35 3012 1.6 1 Semi-active Robert Badge… 13245 55 41 48 23 13 21 28 3 15 28 17 18 13555 5.3 0.7 Semi-active Sandy Harris 8470 26 15 10 15 12 4 7 4 14 34 5 5 8621 4 0.5 Semi-active Chunbum Park 5207 7 15 8 13 12 9 8 16 13 23 12 5 5348 2.4 0.4 Semi-active Aleksander S… 5568 6 10 11 2 10 5 10 10 9 9 10 10 5670 2.1 0.3 Semi-active Jonas Nordho… 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 0 0 27 27 0.3 Comatose Gene Shackma… 279 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 0 0 297 0.2 0.2 Comatose Mark Jones 304 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 317 0.1 0.1 Comatose Milton Beych… 25253 21 12 7 16 9 17 3 0 2 6 5 1 25352 12.1 0.1 Comatose Henry A. Pad… 371 52 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 433 0.3 0.1 Comatose Hayford Peir… 15909 79 44 1 2 1 76 10 63 5 3 3 2 16198 6.8 0.1 Dead Chris Day 25001 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 1 0 0 5 25013 10.3 0.1 Dead Justin Antho… 143 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 148 0.1 0.1 Dead D. Matt Inni… 14167 8 11 10 15 0 0 0 2 2 1 0 3 14219 4.9 0 Dead Rainer Marti… 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 4 4 0 Dead David Yamaku… 5708 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 5715 2.8 0 Dead Dmitrii Kouz… 1510 37 0 15 0 14 1 1 0 4 3 0 0 1585 0.8 0 Dead James Yolkow… 141 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 35 3 0 0 180 0.1 0 Dead Maria Cuervo 545 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 548 0.6 0 Dead Matthew O&#0… 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 3 0 Dead David MacQui… 1098 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 0 1 1 1106 0.6 0 Dead Peter Kauffn… 83 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 86 0 0 Dead Andrey Khaly… 107 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 108 0 0 Dead Christine Bu… 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 Dead Dimitri Neyt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 Dead Frank Schoot… 108 1 1 1 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 116 0.1 0 Dead George Swan 3536 9 0 0 6 0 59 28 3 8 1 0 0 3650 1.7 0 Dead Jennifer G J… 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 Dead JeromeDelacr… 73 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 6 3 0 1 0 85 0 0 Dead Leslie Morri… 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 8 0 0 Dead Paul Wormer 8405 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 8406 3.8 0 Dead Roger A. Loh… 4195 0 2 0 0 1 69 43 0 2 1 0 0 4313 1.9 0 Dead Sloan Haywoo… 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 Dead Stephen Ewen 18957 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 1 0 0 18963 7.3 0 Dead Sylvain Cath… 116 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 117 0.1 0 Dead Total 757889 1534 1518 1420 1162 929 1068 881 659 2017 2254 4501 2839 778671

Notably absent

Rank	User	#edits	days since last edit	longest previous gap	length of stay	days of activity	av. number of comments over length of stay	av. number of comments over days of activity
1	Howard C. Berkowitz	87149	775	3	1115	1107	78.2	78.7
2	Daniel Mietchen	35401	322	55	1670	971	21.2	36.5
3	Nick Gardner	24560	66	24	2055	1635	12	15
4	Caesar Schinas	19075	994	595	1358	87	14	219.3
5	Meg Ireland	14311	857	166	1284	403	11.1	35.5
6	Subpagination Bot	13685	1484	71	624	74	21.9	184.9
7	David E. Volk	12713	721	76	1559	480	8.2	26.5
8	Richard Jensen	12529	1214	189	1094	472	11.5	26.5
9	Joe Quick	7959	524	148	1852	731	4.3	10.9
10	Peter Schmitt	7494	330	34	1174	657	6.4	11.4
11	Housekeeping Bot	7233	1155	64	113	6	64	1205.5
12	David Tribe	6977	2024	382	1141	205	6.1	34
13	Nancy Sculerati	5105	1978	165	312	89	16.4	57.4
14	J. Noel Chiappa	5100	1564	137	391	128	13	39.8
15	Robert Tito	4604	2067	18	362	187	12.7	24.6
16	Derek Hodges	4174	207	158	2136	624	2	6.7
17	James F. Perry	3899	581	186	1792	467	2.2	8.3
18	Todd Coles	3379	1538	138	633	196	5.3	17.2
19	Domergue Sumien	3346	246	241	1810	247	1.8	13.5
20	Bruce M. Tindall	3283	775	117	1511	364	2.2	9
21	Martin Baldwin-Edwards	3045	789	322	1588	465	1.9	6.5
22	Drew R. Smith	2976	1109	232	381	88	7.8	33.8
23	Arne Eickenberg	2972	544	449	1733	165	1.7	18
24	Thomas Simmons	2839	388	156	1942	373	1.5	7.6
25	Thomas Wright Sulcer	2797	943	46	290	91	9.6	30.7

Active editors statistics at Citizendium

Active users

Citizendium's own page statistics includes an entry on active users. The numbers aren't very impressive, but Citizendium was at least able to overtake Conservapedia in Nov 2010.

See also

• Conservapedia:Active users
• RationalWiki:Active users