'Wizard of Oz syndrome' of citizen media

At the J-Lab Citizens Media Summit at the Online News Association conference, Lisa Williams, the founder of H20Town.com, said that community sites can do a lot with just a few contributors.

To make her point, she cited that about half of Wikipedia's edits are done by .0072 percent of the users.

That means, she estimated, that only about 615 people are the core contributors to Wikipedia!

"What we have here is the Wizard of Oz syndrome. It looks really big and impressive but it's really just a little man behind the curtain."

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Hi! Actually, what he said was that 50% of edits are performed by .0072 percent of the users, which given the traffic he reported in the same presentation, would be about 615.

It was during a talk at the Stanford Innovation Forum; I need to find the link...

Posted by Lisa Williams at October 5, 2006 3:22 PM

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