On 4/12/07, Mark Wagner carnildo@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/11/07, Oleg Alexandrov mathbot@hemlock.knams.wikimedia.org wrote:
Bottom line: registered users make the vast majority of edits (and, as of 2005, the top 1400 make 73% of them) but it's IP editors (and small-time registered users) who contribute most of the content.
However, from my own experience of watching 800 articles daily, most anon edits are bad, and the time I spend now reverting vandalism could actually be used writing things. This is just a sample case of course.
Your sample is biased, so don't be surprised when the results don't match. The articles people watchlist tend to be more popular and well-established, so they attract more vandals. Try checking the edit histories of 800 randomly-selected articles. -- Mark [[User:Carnildo]]
I can only reply to this thread as a whole by repeating something that I've said before, which is that if anonymous editing weren't possible, I for one wouldn't be on Wikipedia today. I'm one of the many who came across an article that contained something that needed fixing, discovered that I could fix it myself, and got involved from there. If I'd had to register an account to fix it, it's highly likely I would have just wandered off.
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