[WikiEN-l] The Statistical Decline of the English Wikipedia Community

[Kwan Ting Chan]

On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 08:43 -0700, Steven Walling wrote:
> You're trying to make an accurate judgment based on 100k of articles from a
> 2 million article field? Don't insult our intelligence.
> 

Exactly what is new with taking a sample of the whole to come up with
trends in statistics ?

Any concern should be whether 5% of 2 millions is a high enough sample
(I would say so), and whether the samples is representative of the whole
sample space (all the articles). The second I can't comment on as I do
not know what those 100K articles are among other reasons.

KTC

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