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Wait, I'm already in the first paragraph and I had to bail out. How on earth did they arrive at a figure of "30 million editors"? The number of active English W

Wait, I'm already in the first paragraph and I had to bail out. How on earth did they arrive at a figure of "30 million editors"? The number of active English Wikipedia editors is more in the ballpark of 30K according to http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/active_editors http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/active_editors. The Daily Mail is only confirming why they were discouraged from being used as a source. Some really basic fact checking should have raised suspicion at such a ridiculous number.

pwdisswordfish 10y ago
They probably went by the number of registered accounts (which I didn't check). Not that it isn't terribly misleading anyway.
- stagbeetle 10y ago
  > registered accounts This is what they did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians N.B "The English Wikipedia currently has 30,486,002[2] users who have registered a username. Only a minority of users contribute regularly (141,468[3] have edited in the last 30 days), and only a minority of those contributors participate in community discussions. An unknown but relatively large number of unregistered Wikipedians also contribute to the site."
triplesec 10y ago
If you have read the Daily Fail more than once (which i would not inflict on you without fair warning) you will not be surprised by such things
bigbugbag 10y ago
This comes from wikipedia page about wikipedians: Number of editors: The English Wikipedia currently has 30,486,002 users who have registered a username(...) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians#Number_of_editors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians#Number_o...
- cooper12 10y ago
  Ah I see. Still disingenuous to call them editors since the page I linked to actually counts anyone who has made a minimum of 5 edits recently. Those non-editors with accounts wouldn't participate in the discussion anyway and are probably inactive accounts.

pwdisswordfish 10y ago

They probably went by the number of registered accounts (which I didn't check). Not that it isn't terribly misleading anyway.

stagbeetle 10y ago
> registered accounts This is what they did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians N.B "The English Wikipedia currently has 30,486,002[2] users who have registered a username. Only a minority of users contribute regularly (141,468[3] have edited in the last 30 days), and only a minority of those contributors participate in community discussions. An unknown but relatively large number of unregistered Wikipedians also contribute to the site."

triplesec 10y ago

If you have read the Daily Fail more than once (which i would not inflict on you without fair warning) you will not be surprised by such things

bigbugbag 10y ago

This comes from wikipedia page about wikipedians: Number of editors: The English Wikipedia currently has 30,486,002 users who have registered a username(...) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians#Number_of_editors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians#Number_o...

cooper12 10y ago
Ah I see. Still disingenuous to call them editors since the page I linked to actually counts anyone who has made a minimum of 5 edits recently. Those non-editors with accounts wouldn't participate in the discussion anyway and are probably inactive accounts.