--- El lun, 17/11/08, Desilets, Alain Alain.Desilets@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca escribió:
De: Desilets, Alain Alain.Desilets@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca Asunto: Re: [Wiki-research-l] "Regular contributor" Para: "Research into Wikimedia content and communities" wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org Fecha: lunes, 17 noviembre, 2008 3:00 Interesting. So, in summary:
- Most edits done by a small core
- But, most of the text created by the long tail
- However, most of the text that people actually read, was
created by the small core
Is that a good summary of what we know about this question?
I think so :).
F.
Alain
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Platonides wrote:
Desilets, Alain wrote:
Regarding this, I have had heard different
stories about
contributors.
I seem to recall one study that concluded
that, while 85% of the
**edits** are done by a small core of
contributors, if you take a
random page and select a sentence from it,
this sentence is more
likely to be the result of edits by
contributors from the "long
tail"
than core contributors. I forget the
reference for that study
though.
Does someone on this list have solid
information about this? I think
it's a fairly crucial piece of
information that we should have a
clear handle on as a research community.
Alain
It was a research by Aaron Swartz http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia
I led a study last year that found that the long tail
was even longer
than it usually is (i.e., the "elite"
contributors contribute even more
than they would be expected to).
Specifically, the 0.1% of editors who edited the most
times contributed
about half the "value" of Wikipedia, when
value is measured by words
times views.
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~reid/papers/group282-priedhorsky.pdf
End of shameless plug. ;)
Reid
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