Re: [drupal-devel] Community density
Hi! Interesting statistics indeed, however, there are some things that you do not consider. Me, and many others, for example, moderate nodes often and fixes spelling mistakes and so on. Some of us, like me, have a whole translation of Drupal Core under our belts, but haven't a single node posted on the Drupal site. I am also involved with themes.drupal.org, and attend to forum questions whenever I get a chance. As far as I am concerned, I fall within that 300-user group, even though I have not a single node. We can not necessarily be "thrown away" or labeled as "inactive". Maybe there is another way to come to a more realistic conclusion? Kobus
karoly@negyesi.net 5/6/2005 12:57:11 PM >>> Hi!
Last night I asked Steven to send me data about how many users have 1 node, 2 nodes and so on. Of the 22695 users, 18219 have zero nodes. This means that most of the users are just commenting or not contributing at all. If we want to size the "hard core" of the community, there are 66 users who have written 25% of all nodes, they have at least 39 nodes and 78 nodes in average. A bigger circle is the 302 user who have written 50% of the nodes. They have written at least 12 nodes, the average is 32 nodes. Given that the definition of "belongs to the community" is a very subjective one, I say we have a 300 user community which is real amazing. 22K, of course sounds better, but those are not active. Regards NK
On Friday 06 May 2005 07:06, Kobus Myburgh wrote:
Interesting statistics indeed, however, there are some things that you do not consider. Me, and many others, for example, moderate nodes often and fixes spelling mistakes and so on. Some of us, like me, have a whole translation of Drupal Core under our belts, but haven't a single node posted on the Drupal site.
Or what about developers who work almost exclusively -- but a *lot* on a single module, or just one or two? They may not post that many nodes, but they may contribute hundreds of CVS updates per year. The statistics are still useful -- it's just that they (like any other statistics) need to be carefully considered in context and not viewed as gospel. :-) Scott -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Courtney Drupal user name: "syscrusher" http://drupal.org/user/9184 scott at 4th dot com Drupal projects: http://drupal.org/project/user/9184 Sandbox: http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/syscrusher
I agree with the last two comments: This does not give the full picture. It just measures who creates more nodes than others. If you measure it by comments you will get a different picture (those who help in the forums for example). If you measure it by node type (e.g. project) then it will measure who created the most projects, if you measure by cvs commits, you get another, yet core commits are by only a few, so those contributing core patches do not get credited, ...etc. This is just one metric after all. Interesting though. On 5/6/05, Syscrusher <scott@4th.com> wrote:
On Friday 06 May 2005 07:06, Kobus Myburgh wrote:
Interesting statistics indeed, however, there are some things that you do not consider. Me, and many others, for example, moderate nodes often and fixes spelling mistakes and so on. Some of us, like me, have a whole translation of Drupal Core under our belts, but haven't a single node posted on the Drupal site.
Or what about developers who work almost exclusively -- but a *lot* on a single module, or just one or two? They may not post that many nodes, but they may contribute hundreds of CVS updates per year.
The statistics are still useful -- it's just that they (like any other statistics) need to be carefully considered in context and not viewed as gospel. :-)
Scott
-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Courtney Drupal user name: "syscrusher" http://drupal.org/user/9184 scott at 4th dot com Drupal projects: http://drupal.org/project/user/9184 Sandbox: http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/syscrusher
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