User:Missvain/WikiProject Public Art Retention

This is an analysis of students and related who registered for new user accounts on Wikipedia to participate in WikiProject Public art. These new users examined are students and related participants who are utilizing Wikipedia within the class room, or volunteers who are close with the project. The basis for this analysis is to note retention rates and general information about the edits made by these contributors.

The big question at hand: Are these editors staying beyond their school assignment to continue to edit Wikipedia?

Other questions include:


 * Have they edited articles outside of the public art scope?
 * What is the percentage of male/female editors?
 * Why aren't these editors continuing to contribute beyond their school project?

This examination is still being developed. This data was gathered on September 13, 2011 by viewing userpages, edit counts and article creation statistics.

Statistical data

 * 60 student and related participants have participated in WikiProject Public Art's since its inception in the Fall of 2009.


 * 26 women identify themselves by gender and 3 men; out of the 60.
 * This is based on usernames or if the user identified themselves as such on their userpage.


 * The average semester for these class projects lasts 4 months.
 * 4 months is the average that student users are contributing. This 4 month average starts when the student created the account, up until their final edit.
 * Most students do not continue editing beyond their semester project.
 * 3 students continued editing beyond 1 year.
 * 2 students have continued editing beyond 2 years.


 * The average amount of edits created by the student editor is 211.
 * 5 editors have made 10 edits or less.
 * 15 editors made between 11 and 50 edits.
 * 12 editors made between 51 and 99 edits.
 * 12 editors made between 100 and 199 edits.
 * 15 editors made between 200 and 500 edits.
 * 1 editor has made over 1,000 edits. This 1 editor continues to participate as a Wikipedian.


 * The average amount of articles created by these student editors are 2.
 * 4 editors have created 3 articles.
 * 1 editor has created over 10.