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English: A line graph showing how often users continue using each of Wikimedia's primary editing interfaces over 26 weeks. Generated via https://github.com/wikimedia-research/2018-08-Editing-metrics-snapshots/blob/master/analysis.ipynb Note:
  • This includes all logged-in users who made an edit at any time, on any wiki, between October 2017 and March 2018, regardless of the number of edits made before the study started. This graph does not show overall retention rates for new accounts.
  • "Retention" means that the user continued to use that specific editing environment. "Not retained" means that the user did not use that specific editing interface again during that time period. It does not mean that the contributor stopped editing. For example, if a person used one of these editing environments once, and then switched to the 2003 (non-Javascript) editing environment or the 2017 wikitext editor, then that editor is counted as "not retained" for the original editing environment.
  • Edits in four editing environments were measured: the 2010 WikiEditor, VisualEditor's visual mode, the MobileFrontEnd wikitext editor, and the MobileFrontEnd visual editor. It excludes all edits using VisualEditor's 2017 wikitext mode, Twinkle, Huggle, Rollback, HotCat (except when HotCat opens the 2010 WikiEditor), AWB, etc. All manual "Undo" actions are counted as "using" the 2010 WikiEditor.
  • There is no separation by wiki. A user who used the 2010 WikiEditor on Wikidata during the first week would be counted as "retained" by using the 2010 WikiEditor the following week at Meta.
  • Users who used multiple editing environments are counted separately for each editing environment. Therefore, each user can appear up to four times in this graph.
    • For example, imagine that an editor uses only the 2010 WikiEditor for two weeks, then uses only the visual editor for two weeks, and then switches to the 2017 wikitext editor. That user is first counted as using the 2010 WikiEditor, and being "retained" for it for the next week. Then the user switches to the visual editor. That user is "not retained" for the third week of 2010 WikiEditor, and the data collection starts over, with week #1, on the visual editor line (even though it is the third week of that user editing during the study). The user is "retained" for a second week of using the visual editor, and then "not retained" for anything when the user switches to the 2017 wikitext editor (or any other editing system that is not being measured), even though the user continues to edit.
    • A user who uses both the 2010 WikiEditor and the visual editor is counted in both of those lines. In the case of an editor who uses all four of the measured editing environments every week, the user is simultaneously "retained" in all of them.
  • This data includes edits in all namespaces: mainspace (article) pages, file pages, talk pages, user pages, etc. It does not include Special:Upload or Special:UploadWizard. The visual editors are not enabled for most of these namespaces, and the mobile editing interface makes it difficult to see or edit discussion pages.
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