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Sustainability 2022, 14, 4705

Figure 7. Vital sign: Special functions-very active technical editors. Evolution of the number of very active technical editors over the years, broken down by the lustrum of their first edit. A user is considered a very active technical editor in a given month if they have made at least 100 edits in namespaces Template and MediaWiki in that month; in the graph, data are accumulated by year so that each year includes all the users who have been very active technical editors for at least a month of that year. The colors show the number of very active technical editors belonging to each generation (lustrum of the first edit) each year.

With respect to RQ4 [Special functions-coordinators], we confirm for very active coordinators the same tendency observed for very active technical editors, with a remarkable dominance of older generations for this kind of specialized profile; in this case, we also