Exhibit 1047 ยท Research paper (not peer reviewed)
Research:Contribution Inequality (Wikimedia Research project page)
contribution has become increasingly skewed for the two project namespaces (NS 4, Wikipedia, and NS 5, Wikipedia Talk), starting from values around 60% in 2001 up to more than 90%
Project page by a Wikimedia Summer of Research fellow measuring the Gini coefficient of edits per user by namespace and year, and the year-to-year overlap (Jaccard index) of the top 100 and top 1,000 contributors. It reports article-namespace inequality near 90% and project-namespace inequality rising from about 60% in 2001 to above 90% around 2009, and one-year overlap of top contributors rising from about 20% to about 45%.
- Source
- Wikimedia Foundation research program (Meta-Wiki, supported by WMF)
- Date
- August 2011
- Quoted from
- Results paragraph
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Contribution_Inequality
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Page is a Meta-Wiki research page and can be edited; no archive capture taken.