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Wikipedia: The Crack Cocaine of Copy Editing
As a contributor I've done various things, but at the moment I'm concentrating on keeping up with my watchlist.
High point of five years of editing was when David Quantick wrote to me and now uses our Wikipedia article, substantially written by me, as his official IMDB bio.
WankyStats™
I joined on April 28 2004
1,000 edits as of June 10 2004
2,000 edits as of August 18 2004
3,000 edits as of August 2005 which means it's taken me one year to do what had previously taken me 4 months.
4,000 edits as of October 25 2005
5,000 edits as of July 2 2008. I have been tardy.
6,000 edits as of November 2008.
7,000 edits as of July 2009.
8,000 edits as of July 2010 (although I did a ton more on the Strategy wiki this year).
9,000 edits as of September 2010 (lots of welcoming users),(gives an average of about 1,500 contributions a year).
10,000 edits as of January 2010.
11,000 edits as of September 2011 (welcomes and warnings).
12,000 edits as of December 2016 - 50.81% in the mainspace.
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As of August 8 2004 I was #664 in the list of main namespace editors and #482 on less discriminating editing terms [1]
As of August 29 2004 I was #627 (up 45) in the list of main namespace editors and #453 on less discriminating terms [2]
As of July 25, 2005 I was #1291 in the list of main namespace editors and #973 overall (there's 350,000 registered editors).
As of October 15, 2005 I was #1216 in the list of main namespace editors and #992 overall. Midtable obscurity
As of July 2, 2008 I was not in the top 4000 editors. The end of an era.
Check how Wanky I am right NOW!
WP Stats:
- English Wikipedia reached a peak of just under 55,000 editors making 5 edits per month or more in 2007.
- As of 2009 that was down to around 45,000. That's about the population of Christchurch, Dorset.
- As of January 2010 [3]:
- 365 million unique visitors visited Wikimedia projects (all projects combined).
- Of those 189.9 million visited the English Wikipedia.
- 60.1% of the visitors to Wikimedia projects are estimated to come via Google searches.
- only 0.025% of visitors to Wikimedia projects are editors with more than 5 edits.
- For the English Wikipedia, only 0.021% of visitors have more than 5 edits.
- 5th in the list of most-visited websites in the world.