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:A more relevant statistic would be users who contribute frequently. Over half the activity at Wikipedia is done by less than 1,000 users. How many of these are admins? --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 21:46, 2 February 2008 (EST)
:A more relevant statistic would be users who contribute frequently. Over half the activity at Wikipedia is done by less than 1,000 users. How many of these are admins? --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 21:46, 2 February 2008 (EST)
Due to a combination of wikipedia statistics and microsoft excel I can answer this query. It appears to be a myth that "Over half the activity at Wikipedia is done by less than 1,000 users". <br />
From the statistics page on wikipedia (which I am not permitted to link to by the commandments) I copied the data for the top 2,500 editors of wikipedia, and using excel I summed the total number of edits by these users (48,250,772 if anyone feels like veryifying) and from this it is simple to calculate the percentage of the total edits (198,579,922) that this represents. The result is 24.3% which is significantly less than half for significantly more than 1000 users. Incidently, for the top 1000 users, this figure is 15.4%. --[[User:ChazzaP|ChazzaP]] 09:03, 4 February 2008 (EST)