[Foundation-l] Global rights proposal

Thu Jun 26 18:53:39 UTC 2008

2008/6/26 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2008/6/26 Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com>:
>
>> Other vast problem: most of the enwp accounts aren't people. They're
>> alternate accounts, bot-generated vandalism accounts, etc.
>> I have no idea how we can reasonably estimate the size of enwiki's
>> user base (or any other project), but number of user accounts is
>> basically meaningless.
>
> Brianna Laugher made a start on this, by counting number of editors
> with more than a certain number of unreverted edits.

This sounds a pretty good metric. Do you know what the results were?

I also suspect we could use raw number of edits committed over [some
arbitrary period] as a rough proxy for number of users (a wiki ten
times busier is probably on the order of ten times more populated), if
we have those statistics.

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- Andrew Gray
 andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk