On 2/28/07, Keith Old keithold@gmail.com wrote:
G'day folks,
Nature has published an article on studies on Wikipedia editing patterns.
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They have looked at 4.7 million pages from the English-language Wikipedia, subjected to a total of about 58 million revisions, to see who was making the changes, and how.
When I first read this I was very confused since we don't have that many articles. Did they look at non-article pages? Seems unlikely. Then I read the abstract of the study which states:
"Despite the apparent lack of order, the 50 million edits by 4.8 million contributors to the 1.5 million articles in the English-language Wikipedia follow strong certain overall regularities."
It seems like the Nature people just confused the numbers (4.7 and 4.8 are very close after all). Seems like a silly mistake :)
Can I say it?!?! PLEASE!! I want to say it! Ok, I'm saying it!
Had this article been.....
All right, I won't say it :(
--Oskar