On 29 August 2010 17:27, Carl (CBM)
<cbm.wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 9:51 AM, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Aaron Swartz found that most of the text is
written by IPs, with the regulars then formatting the heck out of it.
Like I was saying, that does not match my experience with mathematics
articles. I very rarely see significant amounts of content (say, a new
paragraph) added by an anonymous user.
Yeah, it's eminently plausible it may not work that way on specialist
topics. And it appears your data bears that out. Data is good ;-)
Would be interesting to test this for other specialist areas.
Mathematics is an a atypical subject area. Even those who are most
prolific in their output of wrong opinions will admit that they are
clueless when it comes to mathematics.
Ec