Dear colleague,
Maybe I don't totally unterstand what you are surprised about. :-) It
happens a lot that people edit Wikipedia without being logged-in,
indeed.
I don't know how to find out how many people first edit unregistered
and later register, but I believe that it is quite common. This is btw
not very good because editing without registration has a lot of
negative side effects.
I wouldn't speak about "anonymous users" because that sounds as if you
are no longer anonymous after registration. Many people believe that
registration means that they have to reveal their identity and so they
don't register.
Some statistics:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm#anonymous
Kind regards
Ziko van Dijk
2011/5/17 Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia <ciampagg(a)usi.ch>ch>:
Hello list,
Some time ago I was reading a blog created by a group of editors of the
Italian Wikipedia for the 10 years birthday of Wikipedia. [1] There was
an interesting series of posts written by some prominent members of the
community recalling their first experience with Wikipedia. What struck
me from these accounts is that several of them wrote they had spent some
time contributing anonymously before registering a user account.
I was wondering if there are any figures on how systematic the
phenomenon might be. Has anybody ever looked into this kind of questions
(not necessarily in the context of Wikipedia)?
Pointers to the literature would be very much appreciated :-)
Cheers,
[1]:
http://dieciannidisapere.it/ (in Italian)
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Faculty of Informatics
University of Lugano
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http://www.inf.usi.ch/phd/ciampaglia/
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