[OSM-talk] The power of the crowd

[Gregory]

Are these statistics/analysis being saved somewhere in the wiki?

Would be good to refer later, and perhaps a link from the page for press
would be good too. (I know theres a link to the sort of raw stats but they
dont include comments after someone has chewed over those stats)

On 23/10/2007, Patrick Weber <p.weber at ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> No problem , I believe thats how all OpenSource and/or Public
> Participation Projects work. I guess its about putting the "power of the
> crowd" in relation. Or I just tried to sound smart ;-)
>
> Steve Coast wrote:
> >
> > On 22 Oct 2007, at 17:51, Patrick Weber wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > It's not a problem, is it?
> >
> > have fun,
> >
> > SteveC | steve at asklater.com | http://www.asklater.com/steve/
> >
> >
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Gregory
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