Milos Rancic wrote:
On 12/29/07, Matthew Britton matthew.britton@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 So apart from being 14 months out of date, it ignores registered user accounts with fewer contributions, and, more importantly, completely ignores anonymous contributions.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