[OSM-talk] The power of the crowd

[Patrick Weber]

Its probably a power law distribution, or in managment speak, the 80:20 
rule. The large majority of users do very little to nothing after 
registration, and its only a small core of participants that probably do 
over 80% of the contributions. If you want to call it a really fancy 
term , its the long tail problem.

Peter Miller wrote:
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> I think it would be very interesting to segment registered users by 
> country and also by activity. How many register and do nothing. How 
> many do one change and then no more and how many become active 
> members. If someone would like to do that it would be great.
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> The next question would of course be to ask how we can increase the 
> conversion rate to active members which will probably come down to 
> making the introduction easier and clearer. Also, do we ever mail-shot 
> members to remind them of their membership and suggest that they do 
> something (even if that is only to request no more emails)?
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> That given; the growth is still very healthy indeed and should 
> translate into more surveying each week, even if a large majority of 
> users do nothing.
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> > Is there any way of segmenting these results per country?
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> > > So far OSM is groing fast, but please don't forget that 15,000 users
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> > > never draw a single way in the UK.
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> > > On 10/21/07, *Peter Miller* <peter.miller at itoworld.com
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> > >     I was pondering last week the fact that OSM now has almost exactly
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> > >     15,000 registered users and that the Ordnance Survey has a total of
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> > >     1,500 staff. Ok so the OS guys turn up for work every day and are
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> > >     all focused on the UK and have all the best gear and most of our
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> > >     registered users don't do a lot, but OSM has ten times the 
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> > >     surveyors and many folk at the OS are not surveying anyway! Wow.
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