Research talk:Surviving new editor/Work log/2014-03-13
Thursday, March 13th
editHere's the survival periods I described in the last log over time for enwiki and dewiki.
It looks like the periods just push a common trend around. Increasing the duration of the trial period and decreasing the duration of the survival period decreases the survival proportion. Let's do some factor analysis. --Halfak (WMF) (talk) 22:57, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
Here's the factor comparison. For survival factor, I locked the trial period at 3 months and for the survival factor, I locked the trial period at 3 months.
It looks like both enwiki and dewiki have a bit of trend going on where the number of users surviving for 1 or 2 trial months in relation to 3 or more is changing. This not extreme and therefor might not matter. But it does suggest that even users who survive 1-2 months are getting less likely to survive 3.
For the survival period duration, we don't see any meaningful change over time. It's clear that we should probably just pick the shortest survival period that we can reasonably make use of. --Halfak (WMF) (talk) 23:19, 13 March 2014 (UTC)