[WikiEN-l] Webypedia - another doomed alternative to Wikipedia

[David Gerard]

On 29 August 2010 17:27, Carl (CBM) <cbm.wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 9:51 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Aaron Swartz found that most of the text is written by IPs, with the regulars then formatting the heck out of it.

> Like I was saying, that does not match my experience with mathematics
> articles. I very rarely see significant amounts of content (say, a new
> paragraph) added by an anonymous user.


Yeah, it's eminently plausible it may not work that way on specialist
topics. And it appears your data bears that out. Data is good ;-)
Would be interesting to test this for other specialist areas.


- d.