Interesting observation by Aaron Swartz. That could happen because the barrier to entry for adding to a text blurb is much lower than that for contributing to a

Interesting observation by Aaron Swartz. That could happen because the barrier to entry for adding to a text blurb is much lower than that for contributing to a code base — maybe because we practice the former for a decade in school. For code, ease of access (edit ability) is non-obvious and therefore, an important axis along which to evaluate open source projects. So, funnily enough, I agree with you because the data you quoted for Wikipedia is much less likely to apply to code :-) Btw, I recently came across a talk by Evan Czaplicki (creator of Elm lang) on “What is success?” for an open source project like Elm, and he raises some interesting points about how measuring projects by Github activity is strongly biased by a model of how the larger Javascript community works: https://youtu.be/uGlzRt-FYto https://youtu.be/uGlzRt-FYto