Desilets, Alain wrote: > Regarding this, I have had heard different stories about contributors. > > I seem to recall one study that concluded that, while 85% of the **edits** > are done by a small core of contributors, if you take a random page and > select a sentence from it, this sentence is more likely to be the result of > edits by contributors from the "long tail" than core contributors. I forget > the reference for that study though. > > Does someone on this list have solid information about this? I think it's a > fairly crucial piece of information that we should have a clear handle on as > a research community. > > Alain
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