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Chad Perrin wrote:
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 05:52:42PM -0400, Delirium
wrote:
Jimmy Wales wrote:
Delirium wrote:
Jimmy Wales 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.
>
Those sound like plausible numbers, but I think your methodology is
somewhat overstating the cohesiveness: The "drive-by editors" who are
the least associated with an identifiable Wikipedia community are the
users who haven't even bothered to go so far as to create a user
account, which you explicitly exclude from your count.
Users who aren't logged in make only around 18% of all edits. It
doesn't change the results materially.
How about when bots are excluded? Just RamBot is a non-negligible
proportion of the total edits on en:, and obviously what bots do isn't
really a good measure of the social aspects of how humans edit Wikipedia...
Why not? Bots are part of what humans do. I agree that they need to be
counted separately for many metrics when making statistical analyses of
the social interactions on Wikipedia, but they are a social phenomena in
that they are created, targeted, and enacted by humans as a result of
their desires and needs within the larger social circumstances of the
Wikipedia project as a whole.
I think bots *are* important - look at the impact RamBot has had, with
the "Free the RamBot articles" project.
(Whoever replies next should snip some of the quoted stuff :))
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