The following brief was published yesterday on 20minutes
(
www.20minutos.es) free newspaper at Spain in Spanish.
I can send you the original if you want.
The numbers are quite interesting. Does anyone know more about that study?
=What you need to know about...
...editing Wikipedia=
==Many consult this site, but few encourage to introduce new contents==
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The best reference work online, made in a disinterested way by the
internet users was born in its current identity 15 January 2001. Since
then, more than 2 million articles were crated in its English version,
and more than 300.000 in the Spanish one. Currentl, it is available at
253 languages. Anyone can modify the articles or create new ones, but
according to aninvetigation by the Minnesota University, it's only a few
percentage of those who visit it, 'work' at it. Another peculiar data is
that a minimun percentage of hte users (the 1%) are responsible of half
the contents.
The fact that they're few people whoe really feed the contensts don't
detract its quality. Teh same study points out that the probability that
a user arrives at a few precise article or a vandalised one is very
small. of only about 0.0037%. Moreover, 40% of the malicious changes are
solved before the article is read by two different users.