[WikiEN-l] An interesting study on bad edits and their impact

Andrew Gray shimgray at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 22:32:23 UTC 2007


On 04/10/2007, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> viewed. Using several datasets, including recent logs of all article
> views, we show that an overwhelming majority of the viewed words were
> written by frequent editors and that this majority is increasing.

During the Board elections, didn't someone wave around a figure that
the majority of our content was written by infrequent contributors?
The two aren't strictly incompatible, of course, but this is rather
interesting as a counterpoint (and it certainly fits my gut feeling).

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk



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