Saturday, June 09, 2007
The Wiki by the Numbers
In light of Greybird’s post on the Daria Fandom Wiki, “Wiki Wacky,” I decided to take a purely quantitative look at the recent activity there.
Using the Wiki’s “Recent Changes” page, I generated a list of the last 500 changes to the “(Main)” namespace (to exclude changes to “User:” and “Talk:” pages), with changes flagged as minor omitted.
One annoying perl program later, I had two comma-separated files I could feed into Excel. Here’s the executive summary:
- 135 articles were changed
- Only 38 of these 135 articles accounted for more
than 75% of the 500 changes - The most changed article was the one on Stacy Rowe,
with 52 or 10.4% of the changes - 23 authors made these changes
- Only five authors of the 23 accounted for more than
81% of the 500 changes - The most active author was The Angst Guy, with
163 or 32.6% of the changes
Labels: DariaWiki
# posted by Frank Sinisterra @ 10:50 PM 
