[WikiEN-l] Edit counts again

charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
Mon Nov 5 21:51:44 UTC 2007


"Phoenix wiki" wrote

> I remember a previous email where I mentioned that those with 3200+ contribs
> are responsible for 52% of wikipedias edits. This study seems quite
> interesting:
> 
> http://www1.umn.edu/umnnews/news_details.php?release=071105_3621&page=UMNN

Yes, but more for what it says about vandalism. How many editors does enWP have? You can't count accounts to get a sensible number. So "percentage of all editors" is not a good concept. We really need to be talking about an area under some graph.

Charles

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