On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:30 AM, jessamyn c. west jessamyn@gmail.com wrote:
People have rightfully pointed out that our $5 barrier to entry is an intentional growth-limiter and also more of a spam-defender. While our user numbers are up in the 100K range, we have about 20K active members and maybe a thousand or two active in any given day. This is small by Wikipedia terms, very very small. That said our M/F ratio is more like 60/40 m/f.
Actually, 20% of active editors is like... wow! You might want to compare with the stats on active and very active editors on Wikipedia here: http://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/ (scroll down the page to get to the relevant charts).
20k active editors is by no means very very small, especially by Wikipedia standards. :)
Delphine