Not at all a surprise to me, and I certainly hope that we do spend most of our time working on not only new articles, but making the articles that are there even better. Mine included. I don't know why you feel you have to make this personal, but I think I can probably match my usefulness to the project against yours. Zoe
Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:Zoe wrote:
"self appointed license policemen? I hope *all* of us are license policemen, unless we really don't care if the Wikipedia gets shut
It might come as a surprise to you, but some contributors actually prefer to write new contents rather than *actively* monitoring the Recent Changes page for possible copyright infringements. Lacking a scientific census or poll, I would rank user activity by descending size: 1) Reading, 2) writing, 3) policing, and 4) vandalizing. We're very happy that activity (3) is bigger than activity (4), but I also assume that activity (2) is bigger than activity (3). I could be wrong, and it would be very interesting to see actual numbers if anybody has tried to measure this.