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We're seeing slight YoY growth in new active editors in May and June 2025, after a long spell of declines that started in 2021. Between 2019 and 2024, new active editors have decreased by 20% ([[ https://people.wikimedia.org/~nshahquinn-wmf/2021-registration-decline/ | see report ]]) We should keep an eye on this trend to see if it continues and investigate where the growth is and what caused it. Some areas to explore - which wikis see YoY growth? -- in May and June emerging wikis contributed to the growth. Declines were seen in developed wikis - Which countries saw increases? -- we can only get top new editor countries for the latest month since editors_daily only stores 30-60 days of data. comparison may not be possible - Platform - desktop or mobile growth?

We're seeing slight YoY growth in new active editors in May, June, July 2025, after a long spell of declines that started in 2021. Between 2019 and 2024, new active editors have decreased by 20% ([[ https://people.wikimedia.org/~nshahquinn-wmf/2021-registration-decline/ | see report ]]) We should keep an eye on this trend to see if it continues and investigate where the growth is and what caused it. Some areas to explore - which wikis see YoY growth? -- in May and June emerging wikis contributed to the growth. Declines were seen in developed wikis -- the timing coincides with the rollout of temp accounts T340001 to major wikis. it would be good to check if we are effectively removing temp accounts and data QA of upstream tables (mediawiki_history) - Which countries saw increases? -- we can only get top new editor countries for the latest month since editors_daily only stores 30-60 days of data. comparison may not be possible - Platform - desktop or mobile growth?

We're seeing slight YoY growth in new active editors in May and JuneMay, June, July 2025, after a long spell of declines that started in 2021. Between 2019 and 2024, new active editors have decreased by 20% ([[ https://people.wikimedia.org/~nshahquinn-wmf/2021-registration-decline/ | see report ]]) We should keep an eye on this trend to see if it continues and investigate where the growth is and what caused it. Some areas to explore - which wikis see YoY growth? -- in May and June emerging wikis contributed to the growth. Declines were seen in developed wikis -- the timing coincides with the rollout of temp accounts T340001 to major wikis. it would be good to check if we are effectively removing temp accounts and data QA of upstream tables (mediawiki_history) - Which countries saw increases? -- we can only get top new editor countries for the latest month since editors_daily only stores 30-60 days of data. comparison may not be possible - Platform - desktop or mobile growth?