The problem with this type of analysis mirrors that of wikipedia: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikip

The problem with this type of analysis mirrors that of wikipedia: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia > Almost every time I saw a substantive edit, I found the user who had contributed it was not an active user of the site. They generally had made less than 50 edits (typically around 10), usually on related pages. Most never even bothered to create an account. Pandas might have had 4 core maintainers as measured by commit count, but the actual work might have a much larger outside influence