Joel Spolsky explained his comparison - which was already mentioned on
this list (Analytics-l) on September 17 - a bit more here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvEAuSHJOBU&t=2216
TLDL: it's indeed about the entire Stack Exchange network vs. the
English Wikipedia (i.e. not about the number from Nemo's query), and
they chose this metric for the closest possible comparison - but still
maintain that posting a question or answer is a larger unit of work
than the average WP edit.
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Jonathan Morgan <jmorgan(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
+research
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing this, Nemo. And for setting those arrogant
Stackers straight ;)
For anyone else interested: Nemo was able to answer this question because
StackExchange has a Quarry-like public query interface of their own. You
should go play with it right now:
http://data.stackexchange.com/
Jonathan
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Some information at
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/269334/how-many-active-users-contr…
TL;DR: not really, and definitely not StackOverflow alone (~14k). But
perhaps the whole StackExchange has more than the English Wikipedia alone.
Nemo
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