On 24 October 2011 21:40, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote:
On 24/10/2011 19:45, David Gerard wrote:
> Though those told us an interesting thing: ~50% of
edits on en:wp are
> from the US, ~25% are from the UK. The populations are 300m and 60m
> respectively. This means that per head of population, British editors
> are 2 1/2 times as active as American ones - English WIkipedia thus
> has disproportionate British participation. (I got to use this on
> someone from the BBC a coupla years ago, gathering background, who'd
> assumed en:wp was basically an American effort. He was quite
> impressed.)
Remind me how the "US" vs. "UK"
editor class is defined..... by IP address?
Yep. I can't find a copy of the report right now, but I recall he
processed a list of actual IP numbers for edits.
- d.