On 8/11/06, Aerik Sylvan aerik@thesylvans.com wrote: [snip]
The experience of editing a well developed page can be like looking at source code: if you don't know the language, there's an awful lot of gobbledygook in there, and I'd think it intimidates some people.
So... it would just be an interesting figure, to hold up next to other figures, like completed edits.
I'd be especially interested to know how the number of failed edits relates to page edits on pages with infoboxes at the top.
In my experience wikitext markup isn't frightening to many people until you are faced with templates.... which are, unfortunately, the first bit of wikitext source that many editors see.
Once we're sampling views it wouldn't be too hard to sample edit pages. :)