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Nearly All of Wikipedia Is Written By Just 1 Percent of Its Editors
Of the more than 46 million people who have edited Wikipedia, only around 100,000 contribute regularly,
Daniel Napsha • Editing Wikipedia｜Dirt
Markus Dohle, CEO, Penguin Random House, says the top 4 percent of titles drive 60 percent of the profitability. That goes for the rest of them too:
Elle Griffin • No One Buys Books
Authors and bloggers Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba call this the “1% Rule”: On the internet, they say, 1 percent create, 9 percent contribute, and 90 percent consume.
Sahil Lavingia • The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less
The lack of top down editorial oversight resulted in uneven development of Wikipedia's articles, oftentimes with stark examples: The biography of Britney Spears takes up nearly twice the space as the one for Socrates.