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I highly doubt the number of users with accounts constitutes a majority of wikipedia users

• EGreg 13y ago
  Fine, 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 ago
    I wouldn't be surprised if 99% of the people who have ever used WP never created an account.
    • foobarbazqux 13y ago
      There 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