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...
-Mark