The 1% rule
It's usually a small proportion of a community that creates value for all says Jeff Jarvis in the 1% rule
For instance, in June 2005 Wikipedia had a total of 68,682 total contributors. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is reported to have told a library group that month:
* 50% of all Wikipedia edits are done by 0.7% of users
* 1.8% of users have written more than 72% of all articles
If we also add evidence from Bradley Horowitz that roughly 1% of Yahoo’s user population starts a Yahoo Group, we seem to have The 1% Rule: Roughly 1% of your site visitors will create content within a democratized community. (Horowitz also says that some 10% of the total audience “synthesizes” the content, or interacts with it.)
Posted by Jill Fallon on May 15, 2006 at 11:21 PM | Permalink | TrackBack
