On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:24 PM, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
The community is being defined in terms of 'people', rather than 'users'. There are also people with more than one account; iirc, one 'crat on English Wikiquote had ~hundred accounts with more than five edits (Kalki).
There are also another ~75000 IP accounts generating at least 5 edits per month. It would be even harder than the username case to figure out how many unique people this represents.
Sage Ross suggested in todays IRC office hours that it would be interesting to look at anon members of our community , and I hadn't thought about this cohort.
Are you sure these are not accounted for in stats.wm.org?
A consideration with these is how often do they become a named account, and therefore would be counted twice if we simply add accounts+anons.
However, it would still seem likely that there is a non-trivial fraction of the contributor community who only edit anonymously.
Indeed.
-- John Vandenberg