On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Piotr Konieczny
<piokon@post.pl> wrote:
Getting any reliable estimates on our community has always been
difficult. However, recently, in official Wikimedia Foundation
announcements and such (ex.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/Letter/en?utm_source=2008_jimmy_letter_r&utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_campaign=fundraiser2008#appeal)
the number "a global community of more than 150,000 volunteers"
appeared. I would very much like to now - what date is it based on?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians gives 8.5 million
registered accounts. Of course many of those are duplicates, but then
there are many unregistered contributors... still, my own guesstimate
would be at at least half a million - if not several millions - of
people who had edited Wikipedia (in any language, ove the past ~8
years). This guesstimate is based on analysis of a small sample of
editors I know and how many accounts they've created (which for a vast
majority is ONE). Sure, there are sockpuppet vandals, but... do we
really have 150,000 volunteers, maybe as much legitimate socks/bots, and
over 8 millions vandal sockpuppet accounts???
--
Piotr Konieczny
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