On 9/21/06, SJ 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
Where is that definition from? I was using Erik Zachte's definition of "active member", as used in a half dozen presentations on Wikipedia -- ~80k editors with over 5 edits in the past month... 210k with over 10 edits in all. I think "100k active editors" is accurate, though perhaps "200k contributors" would be better.
It's one I came up with recently. Five edits in a month is not a good measure of "community". 400 edits lifetime and 100 edits a year shows more of a commitment to a project than five edits in a month, which could easily be a driveby editor who does not hang around. I'm considering running another stats run at 100 lifetime and 25 per year, since I think the higher number shortchanges the community size of smaller projects. (Almost half of our projects have no active editors by the 400/100 standard.)
Kelly