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

[Charlotte Webb]

On 10/10/07, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Actually a 5% sample is large enough, if the numbers involved are large enough.

More importantly if the sample is diverse enough.

On 10/9/07, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
> Given the lack of any recent official stats, I set out to generate my own
> using a dump of the Wikipedia log files and by systematically downloading
> (over many days) the history page contents for 100,000 articles.

I assume these were selected more or less at random?

—C.W.