Desilets, Alain wrote:
Regarding this, I have had heard different stories about contributors.
I seem to recall one study that concluded that, while 85% of the **edits** are done by a small core of contributors, if you take a random page and select a sentence from it, this sentence is more likely to be the result of edits by contributors from the "long tail" than core contributors. I forget the reference for that study though.
Does someone on this list have solid information about this? I think it's a fairly crucial piece of information that we should have a clear handle on as a research community.
Alain
It was a research by Aaron Swartz http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia