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)