2008/6/26 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
2008/6/26 Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com:
Other vast problem: most of the enwp accounts aren't people. They're alternate accounts, bot-generated vandalism accounts, etc. I have no idea how we can reasonably estimate the size of enwiki's user base (or any other project), but number of user accounts is basically meaningless.
Brianna Laugher made a start on this, by counting number of editors with more than a certain number of unreverted edits.
This sounds a pretty good metric. Do you know what the results were?
I also suspect we could use raw number of edits committed over [some arbitrary period] as a rough proxy for number of users (a wiki ten times busier is probably on the order of ten times more populated), if we have those statistics.