On 10/7/07, Christiano Moreschi moreschiwikiman@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
I don't know, Marc. Wikipedia is not a closed "community": it is such an open one, with people entering and leaving all the time, that it is questionable whether the editing "community" is really worthy of the name.
Obviously, some editors are worth trying to retain, but losing people is scarcely a problem for us. We can simply draft in a new population or two.
The statistical research showing that 0.1% of the people are making 40% - ish of the viewed words on WP pages, with 1% making about another 40%, indicates that we do have a strong and important comunity of core contributors.
We hope that many in the 10% and 100%tiles will join up and become 1% or 0.1%ers. That hope and the new blood and ideas they bring in keep us exciting.