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At WikiSym 2006, AlexSchroeder was talking about CommunityWiki:WikiFounding to KerrySanto?. [1] SeedPosting was mentioned. She was wondering how much effort she would have to invest in her wiki before it would take off. Here are the EmacsWiki numbers.

The top poster ignores all anonymous edits. Edits include occasional mass search-and-replace operations. These were exceptionally rare, however (maybe once a year). One possible explanation for why Drew Adams turned out to be a top poster is that he started to host his code and documentation on Emacs Wiki. He then had a significant stake in the wiki.

The edits column shows how many of the total edits were in fact made by the top poster, just to give some perspective.

Month Total Top Poster Edits
2001-05 289 AlexSchroeder 222 
2001-06 457 AlexSchroeder 228 
2001-07 293 AlexSchroeder 152 
2001-08 182 AlexSchroeder 108 
2001-09 246 AlexSchroeder 203 
2001-10 381 AlexSchroeder 170 
2001-11 387 AlexSchroeder 191 
2001-12 225 AlexSchroeder 108 
2002-01 415 AlexSchroeder 131 
2002-02 302 AlexSchroeder 103 
2002-03 279 AlexSchroeder 96 
2002-04 367 AlexSchroeder 117 
2002-05 431 AlexSchroeder 168 
2002-06 513 AlexSchroeder 163 
2002-07 338 AlexSchroeder 102 
2002-08 424 AlexSchroeder 163 
2002-09 530 AlexSchroeder 225 
2002-10 507 AlexSchroeder 189 
2002-11 337 AlexSchroeder 129 
2002-12 414 AlexSchroeder 125 
2003-01 795 DeepakGoel 181 
2003-02 627 AlexSchroeder 185 
2003-03 1222 AlexSchroeder 225 
2003-04 684 AlexSchroeder 115 
2003-05 682 AlexSchroeder 214 
2003-06 765 AlexSchroeder 237 
2003-07 485 AlexSchroeder 65 
2003-08 480 AlexSchroeder 177 
2003-09 695 AlexSchroeder 221 
2003-10 705 AlexSchroeder 184 
2003-11 745 AlexSchroeder 130 
2003-12 369 AlexSchroeder 46 
2004-01 417 AlexSchroeder 79 
2004-02 388 AlexSchroeder 76 
2004-03 970 AlexSchroeder 105 
2004-04 1202 MarkusKnittig 165 
2004-05 934 AlexSchroeder 140 
2004-06 1049 AlexSchroeder 212 
2004-07 750 AlexSchroeder 68 
2004-08 1055 AlexSchroeder 289 
2004-09 1132 AlexSchroeder 296 
2004-10 768 DrewAdams 115 
2004-11 1104 AlexSchroeder 210 
2004-12 869 DrewAdams 184 
2005-01 1008 DrewAdams 114 
2005-02 722 AaronHawley 53 
2005-03 1002 AlexSchroeder 166 
2005-04 794 AlexSchroeder 137 
2005-05 653 DrewAdams 124 
2005-06 817 AlexSchroeder 109 
2005-07 1660 AlexSchroeder 703 
2005-08 947 AaronHawley 135 
2005-09 809 AlexSchroeder 85 
2005-10 2565 AlexSchroeder 1438 
2005-11 971 DrewAdams 409 
2005-12 1570 DrewAdams 377 
2006-01 1248 DrewAdams 374 
2006-02 827 DrewAdams 352 
2006-03 1329 DrewAdams 543 
2006-04 859 DrewAdams 149 
2006-05 955 DrewAdams 211 
2006-06 744 DrewAdams 179 
2006-07 587 DrewAdams 133

I have difficulties in reading these numbers. How do you interpret them. -- HelmutLeitner

I'm guessing the columns are:

Month
 total number of edits that anyone made to EmacsWiki that month
 the user who made more edits than anyone else that month -- the "Top Poster"
 the edits that month's "Top poster" made to EmacsWiki that month

For example, I interpret the line

2006-07 587 DrewAdams 133

as saying that:

during the month of July in 2006, there were a total of 587 edits made to EmacsWiki.
Of those edits, Drew Adams made 133 edits to EmacsWiki.
No one made more than 133 edits to EmacsWiki, and
One can conclude that at least 4 other users made the remaining 454 edits to EmacsWiki.

If I have mis-interpreted this data, then someone please clarify what it really means. -- DavidCary

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