[WikiEN-l] The story of an article

[David Gerard]

2010/1/4 William Pietri <william at scissor.com>:

> In this case, I'd expect creating an account and waiting 3 days to lose
> 50-90% of the contributions we'd get with an unimpeded flow. (To what
> extent we value or want those contributions is a different question; I'm
> just talking about raw user actions.)


What was Aaron Swartz's numbers - a huge percentage of the actual text
kept in articles added by anons? Then heavily processed by the
regulars.

But keeping out the n00bs is how to make Wikipedia decline into complacency.


- d.