On 04/09/06, Sage Ross
<ragesoss+wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Answering "Who Writes Wikipedia?" in
terms of number of surviving words is,
no doubt, better than using edit counts. But it is also may not be the best
approach for the future, if we are really switching to a "quality over
quantity" mentality. At the least, there should be careful choices about
what kinds of articles to analyze, before we put too much weight on results
like these. My intuition is that Featured Articles and Good Articles have a
significantly larger portion of established editors as the main
contributors, even by the word count metric.
That's because it's bloody impossible to get through them without
being fabulous at the politics, even for experienced editors. FAC in
particular is a great example of gratuitous requests for shrubberies
BY POLICY!!!