The study also analyzed the impact of bots on content. By edit count, bots dominate Wikipedia; 9 of the top 10 and 20 of the top 50 are bots. In contrast, in the PWV ranking two bots appear in the top 50, and none in the top 10. Based on the stey growth of the influence on those top 0.1% editors by PWV, the study concluded unequivoy: ... Frequent editors dominate what people see when they visit Wikipedia and ... this domination is increasing. Work distribution and social strata Further ination: Criticism of Wikipedia § Social stratification A peer-reviewed paper noted the "social stratification in the Wikipedia society" due to the "mins class". The paper suggested that such stratification could be beneficial in some respects but recognized a "clear subsequent shift in power among levels of stratification" due to the "status and power differentials" between ministrators and other editors. Analyzing the entire edit history of English Wikipedia up to July 2006, the same study determined that the influence of ministrator edits on contents has steily diminished since 2003, when ministrators pered roughly 50% of total edits, to 2006 when 10% of the edits were pered by ministrators. This happened despite the fact that the |
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