Hoi,
When you divide people up in groups, when you single out the ones "most valuable", you in effect divide the community. Whatever you base your metrics on, there will be sound arguments to deny the point of view. When it is about the number of edits, it is clear to the pure encyclopedistas that most of the policy wonks have not supported what is the "real" aim of the project.

When you label groups of people, you divide them and it is exactly the egalitarian aspect that makes the community thrive. It is when people put themselves apart when friction makes an appearance. A good example is the speed used for mindless speedy deletions as was documented in an episode of "Not the Wikipedia Weekly".

So it is not that I am not interested, it is that I find it a fundamentally bad idea that I am "snarky" about it..
Thanks,
       GerardM

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snarky

2008/10/22 Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt@gmail.com>


More to the point: 
What is the point to your agressive reply? If you're not interested in this thread then you are not obliged to be snarky about it. 
-Liam

On 22/10/2008, at 4:10, "Gerard Meijssen" <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:

Hoi,
What is the point to the question, are regular contributors entitled to wear a halo or will they get wings to go with the halo ?
Thanks,
       GerardM

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hello,
>From time to time I ask myself (and others) what is a "regular
contributor" to a Wikipedia language edition. According to "Tell us
about your Wikipedia" the definitions are quite different.
At eo.WP I once checked a week long (in this August) who was making
edits, and I calculated a "regular contributor" if someone
* made at least one edit in that week
* obviously speaks Esperanto (is no "foreign helper" like someone who
does Interwiki linking)
* made his first edit at least six months ago
* made at least ten edits at all
My result was: 71, compared to 141 "active users" and 50 "very active
users" (Wikimedia Statistics, May 2008).
What do you think about this definition?
Kind regards
Ziko van Dijk


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