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4,300 major contributors maintain Wikipedia regularly

Q: Who maintains Wikipedia? A: 4,300 major contributorsThis is a question I had had for a long time. One felt that online collaboration was becoming mainstream. Still, I had my doubts about the sheer mass of users who were major contributors to a project like the much publicised Wikipedia.

Q: Who maintains Wikipedia? A: 4,300 major contributors

It turns out that Jérôme Delacroix was able to answer that question by pointing me towards the Wikipedia statistics available online (click here).

Taken at face value, the numbers are rather awesome: more than 4300 users have contributed more than 5 articles (since 2001 I assume). When compared to the overall number of Internet users, it may seem very small, but I’d rather cast a positive look on them and emphasise the significance of the user mass.

The ramp-up of the collaboration on Wikipedia is also very impressive (check the charts by clicking the relevant button).

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Yann Gourvennec created visionarymarketing.com in 1996. He is a speaker and author of 6 books. In 2014 he went from intrapreneur to entrepreneur, when he created his digital marketing agency. ———————————————————— Yann Gourvennec a créé visionarymarketing.com en 1996. Il est conférencier et auteur de 6 livres. En 2014, il est passé d'intrapreneur à entrepreneur en créant son agence de marketing numérique. More »
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