On 5/16/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/15/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
Provide the list of the 20 contributors with the most diffs, plus the originator. You'll almost certainly have the top 5 in there somewhere.
Only true in the majority of cases because the overwhelming majority (86%) of articles have fewer unique contributors than that. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Articles_distinct.png)
Edit counts are a horrible metric in general... Edit analysis shows that people who add lots of content tend to do it in single large bursts.
Plenty of articles that fall out of the group with <20 distinct contribs would be completely misrepresented by the 'top 20 contributors'.
All I'm claiming is that generally the top 5 contributors would be found in the top 20 most active. Not always, I warrant. Other than that, yeah, we're facing an old problem - determining the worth of an editor's contributions automatically.
Steve