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 during the 30 days before the script ran on 22 September 2010). The results are below:
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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 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.
NOTE | DEFINITION |
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Create | User's first edit was to create a page |
Non-create | User's first edit was to an existing page |
Deleted | User's first edit was to a deleted page (regardless of whether they created it) |
Non-deleted | User's first edit is not deleted |
Gone | User has not made an edit or logged action in the last 30 days |
Not gone | User has made an edit or logged action in the last 30 days |
Main | User's first edit was to a mainspace page |
Non-main | User's first edit was to a non-mainspace page |
First page/First action | Article deleted | Article kept |
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Create an article
24.7% (12,600) users |
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Edited existing
75.3% (38,374) users |
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Raw data of create/non-create, deleted/non-deleted |
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First page/First action | Page deleted | Page kept |
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Create a page
65.5% (9,667) users |
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Edited existing
34.5% (5,073) users |
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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 during the 30 days before the script ran on 22 September 2010). The results are below:
Cite error: There are <ref>
tags on this page without content in them (see the
help page).
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 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.
NOTE | DEFINITION |
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Create | User's first edit was to create a page |
Non-create | User's first edit was to an existing page |
Deleted | User's first edit was to a deleted page (regardless of whether they created it) |
Non-deleted | User's first edit is not deleted |
Gone | User has not made an edit or logged action in the last 30 days |
Not gone | User has made an edit or logged action in the last 30 days |
Main | User's first edit was to a mainspace page |
Non-main | User's first edit was to a non-mainspace page |
First page/First action | Article deleted | Article kept |
---|---|---|
Create an article
24.7% (12,600) users |
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Edited existing
75.3% (38,374) users |
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Raw data of create/non-create, deleted/non-deleted |
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First page/First action | Page deleted | Page kept |
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Create a page
65.5% (9,667) users |
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Edited existing
34.5% (5,073) users |
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Raw data of create/non-create, deleted/non-deleted |
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