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משפחתובלוגיה » ארכיון הבלוג » על שיתופי פעולה וקשר עם הציבור — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:04:53 +0000

[...] תורם לתוכן האתר מסך המשתמשים באתר הוא נמוך להחריד. הנה נתונים שעובדו מוויקיפדיה (אמנם בשנה שעברה, אך הם בהחלט משקפים גם את המצב היום): 48 [...]

By: Anchor Contributor

Anchor Contributor — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:28:29 +0000

Actually Macedonia is a geographic area that is about 5 times as big as the state of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and has 8 times as many people. Anyway your map is a good idea, but you should probably do a bit more research beforehand. Looking up Wikipedia would be a good start…

By: Tech 4D » Blog Archive » More on Wikipedia Contributors

Tech 4D » Blog Archive » More on Wikipedia Contributors — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:01:59 +0000

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By: El Mapa de la Wikipedia « Jesus León.

El Mapa de la Wikipedia « Jesus León. — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:19:43 +0000

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By: frank

frank — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:34:37 +0000

Thanks dunc! You have highlighted the fact that we are missing some crucial information:
1. average edits per regular contributor (the wikipedia stats page calls these ‘active user’)
2. average edits per anchor contributor (‘very active user’)
3. average edits per reader

But there are a few other important missing facts:
4. number of reverts (e.g. caused by vandalism)
5. number of edits to deleted articles

The analysis is very sensitive to these values. For instance, if you assume 30 instead of 10 for the average edits for “regular contributors” and you assume 10% of edits are vandalism, then the total percentage of edits due to Macedonia and Barbados = 74% and the total due to China = 26% (I did this using the most recent English Wikipedia data, Oct 06)

I wish I knew how to get these missing data. Perhaps I will write some code to analyze the wikipedia database dumps…

Here’s the spreadsheet containing the calculations I used:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pU0y1UcZXfg1ZZpcUhLWjOA

By: dunc

dunc — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:04:21 +0000

If you do the maths and work out the total number of edits from each ‘country’ or group of contributors, it turns upside-down. Because there are so many more ‘readers’, they do most of the editing:

If we assume that for the Anchor Contributors, >100 epm means on average of 200, then

10,000 * 200 = 2,000,000 edits

for Regular contributors, assuming > 5 epm averages to 10 then

77,000 * 10 = 770,000 edits

and for ‘Readers’, assuming

By: 146 - Comparing Wikipedia to China, Macedonia and Barbados « strange maps

146 - Comparing Wikipedia to China, Macedonia and Barbados « strange maps — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:12:52 +0000

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