One interesting Wikimania session by Seth Anthony presented some research on contribution patterns. My notes: Only 10% of edits are high content edits. 30% of those are anonymous, none are by admins, 52% are by someone with a userpage, none have a barnstar. The people who are creating content are relatively new, not versed in style guides and bureaucracy. Their use of Wikipedia speeds up a little bit through use, but not much. Admins, on the other hand, are relatively efficient in their edits and have a consistent pace. They only edit within the article namespace 60% of the time. In other words, most edits are revisions of vandalism. But in the early days they edited get paid to read emails ess frequently, created more content (76% of the time) and edited less consistently. Content creators seem to be occasional and less frequent editors that may be specialists (subject matter knowledge). Admins are former content creators, now janitors. One person in the audience volunteered that he just crossed over from subject expert to janitor to emphasize this point. In other words, the core community within the Power Law of Participation , the 500 people that do 50% of the edits, or 0.5% of the registered population -- does the heavy lifting for subject experts. Advances like Wikiwyg may increase the number and diversity of subject expert contributors. With 2 million edits per month and vandalism anecdotally scaling linearly with edits, janitors matter.

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Now I know I've got to be ill with some exotic virus I've never been exposed to before. Whatever kind of weird bug it is, it is a potent one because ever since I opened that email from Mantis advertising this shed here on the right, building it is all I can think about for the moment. Mantis is offering this KIT for $89.95 and shipping is free but the offer is only good until January 27, 2007. I don't know what happens to it then. Maybe it changes into a pumpkin or something even more weird. The shed can be built in one of three sizes 7 x 8 8 x 14 or 8 x 22 And the ad says: Build a sturdy, long-lasting shed using your lumber at a fraction of the cost of typical sheds! Unique angle brackets make building the shed kit safe and simple. Requires only 90 degree cuts….no angles! Kit includes galvanized steel brackets, plans for 7’x8’, 8’x14’ and 10’x22’ shed, a cut list and materials list. Just add 2x4's to construct a complete shed. What one gets for their $89.95 is a bunch of galvanized steel angle brackets and the plans for constructing either of the shed sizes and a cut list for all three (as best I can tell by this ad.) That deadline date doesn't allow me a lot of time to mull it over or talk to the money person I MUST canada fly in fishing onsult before making a major investment of any kind. I recall last year when I was trying to decide what to do in the back yard...build a wood deck, build a man-made wood substitute deck or go the concrete pad route.

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