On 9/21/06, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:
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.)
Interesting. It seems to me that community is proportional to attention and interest, not to edit count. Until we have measures of this, we are discounting the active readers and lurkers who edit only occasionally. On the other hand, we are overcounting people who edit on more than one project.
I look forward to single login, a decent user survey, and better metrics.
SJ