As the largest edition, and because English is such a widely used language, the English draws many users and editors whose native language is not English. Such users may seek ination from the English rather than the of their native language because the English tends to contain more ination about general subjects. Often bringing in new perspectives, a strong motivation to contribute for them is to increase the coverage of topics outside the English world for an international

audience and to enrich existing topics with missing ination from non-English countries, tby helping to reduce systemic bias. ful collaborations have been developed between non-native English speakers who fully d content to the English and native English speakers who act as copyeditors for them.[citation needed] English editor numbers Number of editors on the English over time.

On March 1, 2014, The Economist, in an article titled "The Future of ", cited a trend analysis concerning data published by the Wikimedia Foundation stating that "he number of editors for the English-language version has fallen by a third in seven years." The attrition rate for active editors in English was cited by The Economist as substantially in contrast to statistics for in other languages (non-English ). The Economist reported that the number of contributors with an average

of five or more edits per month was relatively constant since 2008 for in other languages at approximately 42,000 editors within narrow seasonal variances of about 2,000 editors up or down. The number of active editors in English , by sharp comparison, was cited as peaking in 2007 at approximately 50,000 and dropping to 30,000 by the start of 2014.

Should this attrition have continued unabated at the d trend rate of approximately 20,000 editors lost within seven years, by 2021 t would be 10,000 active editors on English . In contrast, the trend analysis published in The Economist presents in other languages (non-English ) as ful in retaining their active editors on a renewable and sustained basis, with their