Interesting. So, in summary: - Most edits done by a small core - But, most of the text created by the long tail - However, most of the text that people actually read, was created by the small core
Is that a good summary of what we know about this question? Alain > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:wiki- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reid Priedhorsky > Sent: November 16, 2008 9:50 PM > To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities > Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] "Regular contributor" > > Platonides wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > It was a research by Aaron Swartz > > http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia > > I led a study last year that found that the long tail was even longer > than it usually is (i.e., the "elite" contributors contribute even more > than they would be expected to). > > Specifically, the 0.1% of editors who edited the most times contributed > about half the "value" of Wikipedia, when value is measured by words > times views. > > http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~reid/papers/group282-priedhorsky.pdf > > End of shameless plug. ;) > > Reid > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
