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

For the curious, PDFs from the Excel worksheets are available for download, of changes by article and by author. This is from a page generated at about 4 pm EDT Saturday, so naturally things have changed since then.