I don't at all want to discourage improvements, the efforts of the WWG, etc, but at the same time we have to be clear that this kind of ratio is pretty common amongst crowd sourced projects. For example, if you look at English Wikipedia's stats, there are over 800K "wikipedians" (and note, they've made at least 10 edits; I couldn't find stats that included users with fewer total edits). Of them, only about 30000 make at least 5 edits in any given month. For the details, see <span style="font-family:Helvetica;white-space:nowrap"><a href="http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm">http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm</a></span><div>
<font face="Helvetica"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="white-space:nowrap">Regards, Brad<span></span><br></span></font><br>On Friday, April 12, 2013, Johan C wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">OSM has got over 1,1 million registered users now. About 20.000 of them frequently make edits. There's still a lot of opportunities here, because all registered users at least have some interest in OSM. The question is: how do we unlock this giant community potential?<div>
<br></div><div>Cheers, Johan</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/4/12 Jean-Marc Liotier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'jm@liotier.org');" target="_blank">jm@liotier.org</a>></span><br>
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<font size="-1"><font size="-1">Looking at the profiles of nearby
mappers <font size="-1">displaye<font size="-1">d on my profi<font size="-1">le pa<font size="-1">ge's <font size="-1">map<font size="-1">, I am astonished to find that most of
them have made zero </font></font></font>edits<font size="-1">. Those people <font size="-1">went through the
effort of registering <font size="-1">(</font>som<font size="-1">e even added an avatar picture)</font> but then
did not use their account for anything <font size="-1">- </font></font></font>no
e<font size="-1">dits, no traces, nothing.<font size="-1"> Why ? <font size="-1">Are these mere spam re<font size="-1">gistrations</font>
or are we actually losing good potenti<font size="-1">al
mappers in the <font size="-1">first hour<font size="-1">s
of their life as Openstreetmap users ? </font></font></font>How
many of them do w<font size="-1">e have ? </font>Do we have
logs that we can analy<font size="-1">ze <font size="-1">to
understand <font size="-1">h</font></font></font><font size="-1"><font size="-1"><font size="-1"><font size="-1"><font size="-1"><font size="-1"><font size="-1"><font size="-1"><font size="-1">ow they c<font size="-1">a</font>me <font size="-1">to Openstreetmap<font size="-1"> and
how they dropped out ?<br>
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