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This is complete FUD. I wrote a simple script to parse the numbers on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits http://en.
by randomwalker 18y ago
This is complete FUD.
I wrote a simple script to parse the numbers on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_o...
Turns out, the top 1,400 account for 17% of the edits. Even the top 4,000 listed on that page together account for only 28%.
I've been on Wikipedia since mid 2002. That statement by Jimbo sounds like exactly the sort of thing he would have said back in 2003 or 2004, because it was true back then. He did know a whole lot of editors personally. But in 2009, those numbers are way off the mark.
Furthermore, as someone else said, these top editors are mostly admins doing janitorial duties such as rolling back vandalism semi-automatically. If you remove this component, the distribution would be even more equitable.
Finally, this is just the English Wikipedia, which is only about one-fourth of the total, by article count. And different languages have mostly disjoint authorship. So I'd say the true impact of the top thousand globally is around 2-5%.
Seriously, this is pure trolling.
- vaksel 18y agoThose #s are probably bullshit too, with people just trolling for points, and basically doing the "+1" equivalent i.e: November 2008: #1: Rjwilmsi 230816 September 2008: #4: Rjwilmsi 170750 That's 60,000 "edits" in 2 months. 1,000 edits per day. The thing is, that all those #s, don't actually rate the quality of edits.
- randomwalker 18y agoDid you read my comment? The part where I said, "these top editors are mostly admins doing janitorial duties such as rolling back vandalism semi-automatically." If you'd taken a cursory look at Rjwilmsi's user page, you'd have seen: "I'm not a bot. I use [[Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser]] to assist my editing, but each edit is reviewed by me. Any mistakes are my own." These people are not trolling, they perform an invaluable service to the site for no reward except the labor of love. To use a technical term, they clean up your shit after you.
- vaksel 18y agohow do you look at a user page?
- randomwalker 18y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:username http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:username or google the username, the wikipedia page usually comes up.