56% of first Wikipedia edits are good - 0 views
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Kevin Makice on 17 Apr 11If you thought Wikipedia had seen its heyday, you'd have thought wrong. A small study performed by Wikipedia staff and published today found that new Editors are signing up and making edits to the site at a far greater rate than they were years ago. A slight majority of their first edits are acceptable or better. The number of new Editors registering on the site has grown from 60 on an typical day in 2004 (when the site was 3 years old) to now 1800 people joining English Wikipedia and making at least 1 edit in a given day today. Vandalism is way up but still makes up less than 25% of edits from new Editors. 55% of first edits by new Editors today meet the site's (increasingly) stringent quality controls and require no clean-up by other Editors. While that's down from 72% in 2004, it's still pretty good.