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December 14, 2006
Latest stats, including editor numbers for many workgroups
Filed under: Editors, Project growth - Larry Sanger @ 3:41 pm
Here are some updated stats.
I think it's safe to say that in the last few weeks we have moved up to the
range of 300-400 edits per day, during weekdays anyway. Many of these are
categorizing edits, but many of them aren't.
* 659 articles tagged "CZ Live"
* 1 approved article ("Biology"), 1 up for approval (these are test
articles for our new approval procedure, outlined just last week)
* 431 registered users with read/write privileges on the wiki (more coming
soon as we catch up with backlogs)
*136 editors
Here are the leading workgroups in order of number of editors:
20 Health Sciences [no, make that 21...]
19 Computers
17 Biology
14 Chemistry
12 Politics
9 History
7 Engineering
7 Library and Information Science
6 Physics
6 Economics
6 Philosophy
6 Media
5 Education
5 Law
5 Literature
Here's the complete list of workgroups (subject to regular additions and
probably, before too long, the oversight of a special workgroup of editors).
I think it would be all right if these groups were to begin approving
articles. There's been quite a bit of discussion about the new approval
process and that's where you can find the procedure outlined. I'll put
together a wiki policy page and post the URL sometime soon.
I have to say I'm quite happy at the attention this project has received
from the health sciences community. One health sciences editor has proposed
to start a conference focused on some CZ issues, and we have the attention
of a very influential, highly-placed person with the British health service.
We've got quite a few distinguished researchers on board, too, including two
on the executive committee who must be among the top five hardest-working
Citizens (Nancy Sculerati and Gareth Leng). See the health sciences editor
list (link above).
The other groups are relatively low in number, I think, primarily because
we've done very little organized recruitment. Most people arrived at the
project via tech news stories, the blogosphere (geek-heavy), and the
Financial Times and Nature articles. Social sciences, arts, and recreation
are especially weak at present, but that's not surprising because people in
those areas don't tend to be exposed to stories like CZ. We are going to
have to go out and bring them in. That effort begins next month. Expect
our numbers to double or triple (or more) by February.
--Larry
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