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> Well, considering that the vast majority of its users have already signed up Do you have any data for that? I highly doubt it.
by jlgreco 13y ago
> Well, considering that the vast majority of its users have already signed up
Do you have any data for that? I highly doubt it.
- EGreg 13y agoLet's see, the data is that all the users that have signed up before they changed their security, have signed up before they changed their security. Since they changed it very recently, but have been around for years, I think it's a safe bet that my statement is correct.
- na85 13y agoI highly doubt the number of users with accounts constitutes a majority of wikipedia users
- EGreg 13y agoFine, what I really meant to say was "accounts", not "users". In my framework, I only consider "users" those who signed up, so I usually refer to accounts as "users", but technically this may be incorrect.
- rhizome 13y agoI wouldn't be surprised if 99% of the people who have ever used WP never created an account.
- foobarbazqux 13y agoThere are 20 million accounts, 125 thousand active accounts [1]. The number of people who refer to Wikipedia is probably over a billion, since it's often the first hit in Google (speculation). Roughly 25% of edits are anonymous (no account), and anonymous edits are significantly longer than non-anonymous ones [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistics [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Anonymous_edits https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Anonymous_edits