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["Brianna Laugher" <brianna.laugher AT gmail.com>]

On 03/10/2007, Nick Jenkins <nickpj AT gmail.com> wrote:
 Also maybe people see themselves relative to other people
> in terms of determining whether they're an active community member or not - 
> so
> 5 edits on a very small wiki probably does make you an active member, and 
> on EN
> Wikipedia it probably is 100 edits - because "active" can be a relative 
> measure -
> i.e. active compared to whom - and I think the normal answer is "compared 
> to most
> other people using the wiki".

Hmm...a relative measure may not be that useful. I was thinking
"maybe: the number of people who make more edits than 90% of the
total... oh wait, that's always going to be 10% of the total." :)

That never tells you if the active community as a proportion of the
total community is increasing or decreasing.

or maybe I am thinking about it slightly wrong.

Brianna

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