[WikiEN-l] Study finds that Wikipedia has evolved from an oligarchy to a democarcy

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On 2/27/07, Sage Ross <sage.ross at yale.edu> wrote:
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> If someone comes up with the equation for that based on the paper's
> data, then we could do some measurements on the mechanisms by which
> edits beget edit.  The important question is, do edits really beget
> edits, or is the correlation between number of new edits and number of
> total edits simply an artifact of Wikipedia's overall exponential
> growth coupled with the relationship between article age and article
> popularity (i.e., more important articles are created earlier).


I know that an edit to something on my watchlist draws my attention and, in
the course of checking the edit, I may see other things that need fixing.
This is a wholly unscientific observation, of course.

Adam