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Nearly All of Wikipedia Is Written By Just 1 Percent of Its Editors
Of the more than 46 million people who have edited Wikipedia, only around 100,000 contribute regularly,
Daniel Napsha • Editing Wikipedia｜Dirt
Fewer than two percent of Wikipedia users ever contribute, yet that is enough to create profound value for millions of users.
Clay Shirky • Here Comes Everybody
The story of Wikipedia has inspired business, government, and academics to reevaluate accepted truths about producing works of knowledge. Credentials and central control, once considered the most important parameters for generating quality content, now yield to new terms crowdsourcinf peer production and open source intelligence. What was once only... See more
Andrew Lih • The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia
The lack of top down editorial oversight resulted in uneven development of Wikipedia's articles, oftentimes with stark examples: The biography of Britney Spears takes up nearly twice the space as the one for Socrates.
Andrew Lih • The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia
So in any given website:
1% create all the content, 9% edit and organize, 90% make up the viewing audience.
Svpply was like this. Even as we grew to hundreds of thousands of viewers, it was always a small group of a few thousand members that fueled the engine.