On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:06 PM, John Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Robert Rohde <raro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:24 PM, John Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> The community is being defined in terms of 'people', rather than >>> 'users'. There are also people with more than one account; iirc, one >>> 'crat on English Wikiquote had ~hundred accounts with more than five >>> edits (Kalki). >> >> There are also another ~75000 IP accounts generating at least 5 edits >> per month. It would be even harder than the username case to figure >> out how many unique people this represents. > > Sage Ross suggested in todays IRC office hours that it would be > interesting to look at anon members of our community , and I hadn't > thought about this cohort. > > Are you sure these are not accounted for in stats.wm.org? > > A consideration with these is how often do they become a named > account, and therefore would be counted twice if we simply add > accounts+anons. > >> However, it would still >> seem likely that there is a non-trivial fraction of the contributor >> community who only edit anonymously. > > Indeed.
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