Active editors

The number of active Wikipedia editors seems to decrease for the mature Wikipedias. The peak was in 2007. Early adopters started in 2005.

For other (smaller, newer) Wikipedias the number of active editors still increases.

It ranges between 50-100 per mio native speakers (language users).

There are 1-2 moderators per mio language users.

Minority languages (e.g. Basque) have more volunteers.

Reasons

Saturation:
- all major subjects (lemmas) have been described
- fewer updates
- older editor community
Increased use of mobile devices; less efficient editing on mobile devices
Youngsters are not using a PC any more
People want always something new
Use of ChatGPT and advanced search engines
Bad, or incomplete, non-systematic or coherent user documentation
Old GUI, not dynamic, too few multimedia, too few user interactivity, no concurrent editing (e.g. like in Google Docs)
Unattractive environment, unwelcome community for newcomers
Editing is much more complicated than in the period 2005-2007
- More emphasis on references