Joel Spolsky explained his comparison - which was already mentioned on this list (Analytics-l) on September 17 - a bit more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvEAuSHJOBU&t=2216 TLDL: it's indeed about the entire Stack Exchange network vs. the English Wikipedia (i.e. not about the number from Nemo's query), and they chose this metric for the closest possible comparison - but still maintain that posting a question or answer is a larger unit of work than the average WP edit.
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Jonathan Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > +research > > Fascinating. Thanks for sharing this, Nemo. And for setting those arrogant > Stackers straight ;) > > For anyone else interested: Nemo was able to answer this question because > StackExchange has a Quarry-like public query interface of their own. You > should go play with it right now: http://data.stackexchange.com/ > > Jonathan > > > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Some information at >> https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/269334/how-many-active-users-contributors-does-stack-overflow-stack-exchange-have/ >> >> TL;DR: not really, and definitely not StackOverflow alone (~14k). But >> perhaps the whole StackExchange has more than the English Wikipedia alone. >> >> Nemo >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > > > > -- > Jonathan T. Morgan > Senior Design Researcher > Wikimedia Foundation > User:Jmorgan (WMF) > > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
