On 09/02/2008, David Picón Álvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually the Wikipedia thing has been more or less thoroughly debunked. > Whereas it is true that a very small minority (I think about 2000 people) > are responsible for an overwhelming number of edits, it turns out their > edits tend to be minor in character: fixing style, citations, that kind of > thing. Most of the contentful edits are made by people who edit little.
Not "debunked" - both are true. Most of the actual text is written by anonymous contributors, then the editing and shaping of that (which is non-trivial work) is done by a smaller core group. Mind you, that "core" is in the thousands in any given month - the last month we have numbers for is Oct 2006, when it was 4300 editors on English Wikipedia with >100 edits, and 43,006 with >5 edits. Also: most articles are uncontroversial, and written by one or two people; only a very few have any controversy over their content. Greg Maxwell (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gmaxwell) does lots of statistical evaluations of the Wikimedia projects. - d. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
