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| nobs |
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#2242 most prolific contributor of out of 1 million+ WP users  Group: Regulars Posts: 575 Joined: From: North America Member No.: 16  |
The Foundation list is in a tizzy. Internal statistics for the English Wikipedia have not been compiled since October 2006. Independent analysis shows the activity of the Wikipedia community appears to have been declining during the last 6 months. New users are off 30%
QUOTE Having absorbed traffic from all previous contenders, we are running up against an insurmountable wall.... That very traffic that we absorbed is no less than the unwashed masses... |
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| blissyu2 |
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the wookie Group: On Vacation Posts: 4,596 Joined: From: Australia Member No.: 5 |
It also seems that their rate of unproductive edits has climbed to over 20%:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dragons_...sis#Revert_rate |
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| nobs |
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#2242 most prolific contributor of out of 1 million+ WP users Group: Regulars Posts: 575 Joined: From: North America Member No.: 16 |
QUOTE(blissyu2 @ Tue 9th October 2007, 10:17pm)  It also seems that their rate of unproductive edits has climbed to over 20%: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dragons_...sis#Revert_rate 60% of "normal edits" are made by pimply faced Admins. Like that's news. We always knew you had to be a member of the club. This post has been edited by nobs: |
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| KamrynMatika |
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Ãœber Member Group: Regulars Posts: 626 Joined: Member No.: 1,776 |
QUOTE(nobs @ Wed 10th October 2007, 5:47am) QUOTE(blissyu2 @ Tue 9th October 2007, 10:17pm) It also seems that their rate of unproductive edits has climbed to over 20%: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dragons_...sis#Revert_rate 60% of "normal edits" are made by pimply faced Admins. Like that's news. We always knew you had to be a member of the club. No, 60% of the edits that admins make are 'normal' edits. So 40% of their edits are reverts or have been reverted. Meaning that they edit far less than plain registered users, who have 82% of their edits as 'normal'. (i.e. not reverts or wasn't reverted). And the graph for their 'decline' is hardly surprising as editing is dropping off around September/October. I think the decline is more likely to be the result of people going back to school/college than abusive admins. I think the tendency here to focus on the bad side of Wikipedia makes us overestimate the impact that a few abusive admins have. They don't have enough influence to cause the rate of edits per day to drop by around 25,000. Pay attention to the fact that deletions have gone down vastly in the last month - as admins are mostly college students, this is hardly surprising. This post has been edited by KamrynMatika: |
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| JohnA |
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Looking over Winston Smith's shoulder Group: Regulars Posts: 1,171 Joined: Member No.: 313 |
QUOTE(KamrynMatika @ Wed 10th October 2007, 11:16am) QUOTE(nobs @ Wed 10th October 2007, 5:47am) QUOTE(blissyu2 @ Tue 9th October 2007, 10:17pm) It also seems that their rate of unproductive edits has climbed to over 20%: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dragons_...sis#Revert_rate 60% of "normal edits" are made by pimply faced Admins. Like that's news. We always knew you had to be a member of the club. No, 60% of the edits that admins make are 'normal' edits. So 40% of their edits are reverts or have been reverted. Meaning that they edit far less than plain registered users, who have 82% of their edits as 'normal'. (i.e. not reverts or wasn't reverted). And the graph for their 'decline' is hardly surprising as editing is dropping off around September/October. I think the decline is more likely to be the result of people going back to school/college than abusive admins. I think the tendency here to focus on the bad side of Wikipedia makes us overestimate the impact that a few abusive admins have. They don't have enough influence to cause the rate of edits per day to drop by around 25,000. Pay attention to the fact that deletions have gone down vastly in the last month - as admins are mostly college students, this is hardly surprising. If you look carefully, the decline began in late February/early March. Perhaps Wikipedia has peaked. |
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