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

[Andrew Gray]

On 10/10/2007, Steven Walling <steven.walling at gmail.com> 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.

I hear science has invented this thing called "statistics", using
these novel ideas called "samples".

Assuming our 100k were selected randomly, and that some attempt was
made to consider the effects of articles which have been deleted since
they were created... I can't see any data on the selection method,
though.

I would be interested to see the results which have counterparts in
our records - article creation rate, say - being compared, to see if
any systematic discrepancies emerge. It won't prove the sample is
perfect, but it will let us know if we have major weirdness.

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