Re:Nearly All of Wikipedia Is Written by Just 1 Percent of I...
by vorg on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @01:42PM
(#15655522)
Even worse than weasel words is false logic, such as these two statements:
> a recent study that looked at the 250 million edits made on Wikipedia during its first ten years
> At the time of writing, there are roughly 132,000 registered editors who have been active on Wikipedia in the last month
being used to conclude that:
> So statistically speaking, only about 1,300 people are creating over three-quarters of the 600 new articles posted to Wikipedia every day
This assumes the number of daily new articles being posted in 2017 is the same as the average number of edits of both new and existing articles being made from 2001 to 2011 (averaged over all 10 years), which is a ridiculous assumption.
> a recent study that looked at the 250 million edits made on Wikipedia during its first ten years
> At the time of writing, there are roughly 132,000 registered editors who have been active on Wikipedia in the last month
being used to conclude that:
> So statistically speaking, only about 1,300 people are creating over three-quarters of the 600 new articles posted to Wikipedia every day
This assumes the number of daily new articles being posted in 2017 is the same as the average number of edits of both new and existing articles being made from 2001 to 2011 (averaged over all 10 years), which is a ridiculous assumption.