Milos Rancic wrote:
On 12/29/07, Matthew Britton
<matthew.britton(a)btinternet.com> wrote:
Milos Rancic wrote:
- "if not millions" is also a poetic
nonsense. Please, read some
statistics [2] before expressing such bold "facts".
The English
Wikipedia has more than six million registered user
accounts. About 50 editions of Wikipedia have more than 1000 registered
user accounts. Content has thus been added by thousands of users in
about 50 cases, and millions in at least one case. In what way does this
constitute "poetic nonsense"?
You said "if not millions of contributors". To be a contributor you
have to make at least one contribution. English Wikipedia had 151934
such contributors at the end of October 2006.
That figure is the number of registered user accounts which had made 10
or more contributions. So apart from being 14 months out of date, it
ignores registered user accounts with fewer contributions, and, more
importantly, completely ignores anonymous contributions. Dynamic and
shared IP addresses make these very difficult to count, but what we do
know is that it is they who account for most of the project's content.
-Gurch