On 10/4/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 04/10/2007, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@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).
It has been claimed: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia
And disputed: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-September/053315.html
A related but mostly orthogonal claim (by myself) is that most articles have a single or very small number of authors. It would be interesting to see what direction that trend is moving in.