On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 23:37:44 +0800, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
I think it would be a good idea to have the information in a tab called "Metrics", which could have those numbers, as well as the number of unique authors, and number of edits. (And of course some heuristic to filter out effects from edit wars, etc.)
BTW, this is the recent experiment that has caused the latest buzz: http://www.frozennorth.org/C2011481421/E652809545/index.html
Note that each of the five articles used in this person's experiment are very low traffic - one had only three authors and four edits, another had two authors and two edits. Certainly it was not Wikipedia's finest hour, but he certainly chose (and if an appropriate word, cherrypicked) the right ones to highlight the weaknesses.
Articles were: Layzie Bone; Magni; Empuries; Philipsburg, PA; Bernice Johnson Reagon
I would see a much bigger problem with this and that is that the story was posted on Slashdot. This is going to encourage many more people to try similar experiments.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/05/1339219&tid=146&tid=1