[OT] Jimbo Wales' edit count (was: Re: [WikiEN-l] Here's an interesting one)

[Guettarda]

On 2/1/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
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Username        Jimbo Wales


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>
> Articles        417
> Talk    211
> User    128
> User talk       809
> Project 198
> Project talk    62
>
> 1 in 4 edits actually in the article space, and  twice as many on user
> pages? Not to mention 128 edits to his own user page? I'm not sure
> what measure you use to judge "pretty good" edit distribution - the
> guy is clearly not here to create an encyclopaedia :)
>
> Steve (who has 18 times more edits in the template namespace, so must
> be 18 times cooler...)
>
>
Not to be nitpicky (ok, to be nitpicky and absolutely nothing else), 18 x 0
= 0.  So why not say you have 18,000 times as many edits (once you're
multiplying by zero, who cares?)