About Wikipedia ‘edits’: (from a Wikimania session on “Contribution patterns among active Wikipedians,” some statistics presented by Wikipedian and graduate student, Seth Anthony):
As of this morning, the English version of Wikipedia has:
1.3 million articles 500 million words 1.9 million registered accounts 38,000 ‘editors’ who have made more than 5 edits 70 million edits Analyzing a sampling of 250 edits made in June, Seth discovered the edits were for the following reasons (partial list):
Creation of new articles: 2% Substantive changes or adding additional information: 10% Tweaking grammar or style: 45% Vandalism: 5% Technorati Tags: wikimania2006, wikimania, wikimania2006