On 5/4/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
My research (conducted in December) showed that half
the edits by logged
in users belong to just 2.5% of logged in users. It would be extremely
interesting to run tests to compare "edit dispersion" for new articles,
old articles, heavily edited articles, highly watched articles, heavily
trafficked articles, etc.
Well it's also the case that there are a great number of trivial edits
(minor copyediting, vandalism reversion, simple wikification0 that get
made by people with the right 'calling' (and in some cases, the right
automation tools)...
The nature of these changes (each small and not time consuming, but as
a whole tedious and unrewarding to many people) causes a small number
of obsessive (in a good way) people to make a great number of edits.
I suspect that if you omit these edits you'd find the distribution of
contributions to be somewhat less concentrated.