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excluded. Users with indef blocks were excluded, as these are likely to be mainly vandals and sockpuppets rather than legitimate new users; a user with a shorter block may still be a regular user. There may be a small amount of error in the determination of whether or not a user created a deleted page (false negatives). If a user created a deleted page that was created by someone else and deleted, they won't have the earliest deleted edit for that title, so they won't appear to be the creator, even if they did create a version of it. Whether a user is still active was determined based on whether or not they had made any action in recentchanges.
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I ran a script that looked at all the user accounts created in
February 2010. It looked at whether the user's first edit was to create a page, whether their first edit was deleted, whether their first edit was to a mainspace page, and whether or not the user was still active (that is, made any edits
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For performance reasons, the user accounts were determined from the new user log, rather than the user table directly. The script then gathered basic information about each account - editcount, user groups, block status. Users with a bot flag, 0 edits, or those that were indefinitely blocked were
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From the users analyzed, we got fewer than 200 regular users from those who created articles (1.3% retention), we got more than 900 from users who edited existing pages (2.5% retention)
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Users who create an article are much more likely to leave the project if their article is deleted. 1 in ~160 will stay if their article is deleted while 1 in ~22 will stay otherwise
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Users who start by editing an existing article are far less likely to have their first edits deleted (and therefore are far more likely to stay)
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during the 30 days before the script ran on 22 September 2010). The results are below:
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A significant number of regular users (24%) get their start outside of mainspace.
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Our main source of regular users is not users who start by creating an article.
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Users who start by editing an existing page outnumber article creators by 3:1
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533:Raw data of create/non-create, deleted/non-deleted
344:Raw data of create/non-create, deleted/non-deleted
65:tags on this page without content in them (see the
561:Non-create, not deleted, not gone, non-main 143
558:Non-create, non-deleted, gone, non-main: 4777
176:User's first edit was to a non-mainspace page
549:Create, non-deleted, not gone, non-main: 212
372:Non-create, not deleted, not gone, main: 961
555:Non-create, deleted, not gone, non-main: 0
369:Non-create, not deleted, gone, main: 36220
546:Create, non-deleted. gone, non-main: 7653
168:User's first edit was to a mainspace page
128:User's first edit was to an existing page
552:Non-create, deleted, gone, non-main: 117
360:Create, non-deleted, not gone, main: 104
366:Non-create, deleted, not gone, main: 11
543:Create, deleted, not gone, non-main: 9
120:User's first edit was to create a page
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363:Non-create, deleted, gone, main: 1212
357:Create, non-deleted, gone, main: 2271
540:Create, deleted, gone, non-main: 892
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390:First page/First action
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278:75.3% (38,374) users
214:24.7% (12,600) users
467:34.5% (5,073) users
403:65.5% (9,667) users
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112:DEFINITION
85:The results
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396:Page kept
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76:The script
61:There are
67:help page
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99:Bots: 3
31:Summary
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117:Create
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165:Main
149:Gone
109:NOTE
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193:was
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