A lot of registered accounts make 0 edits. This makes them neither a contributor nor a vandal - White Cat
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Piotr Konieczny <[email protected]> wrote: > Getting any reliable estimates on our community has always been > difficult. However, recently, in official Wikimedia Foundation > announcements and such (ex. > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/Letter/en?utm_source=2008_jimmy_letter_r&utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_campaign=fundraiser2008#appeal > ) > the number "a global community of more than 150,000 volunteers" > appeared. I would very much like to now - what date is it based on? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians gives 8.5 million > registered accounts. Of course many of those are duplicates, but then > there are many unregistered contributors... still, my own guesstimate > would be at at least half a million - if not several millions - of > people who had edited Wikipedia (in any language, ove the past ~8 > years). This guesstimate is based on analysis of a small sample of > editors I know and how many accounts they've created (which for a vast > majority is ONE). Sure, there are sockpuppet vandals, but... do we > really have 150,000 volunteers, maybe as much legitimate socks/bots, and > over 8 millions vandal sockpuppet accounts??? > > -- > Piotr Konieczny > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >
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