Wikipedia Bitcoin Statistics

http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Bitcoin

by vinchuco • 11 years ago

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alextingle• 11 years ago

Why?

contingencies3• 11 years ago

Article creator here: wow, I had no idea it was that popular!

Kiro2• 11 years ago

What do you mean? Sounds like you take credit for the whole Wikipedia Bitcoin article.

gtwy• 11 years ago

On wikipedia, people write the initial articles and then watch them. Most authors are watching hundreds of articles that they "own" and usually swoop in to undo any bad changes. It has it's good sides but it also is like the feudal system where all of these writers are kings of their domain.

I added additional helpful information and photos to an article local to my area about a coal mine explosion that happened in the early 20th century. The original author came back and undid all of my changes because he was the "original author" which somehow gave him permission to do that. I had to appease his ego so that he would allow me to make the changes (that or I could have challenged him publicly, which I really didn't want to do.)

I can't speak for this author on Bitcoins... just my experience on Wikipedia.

ericfontaine3• 11 years ago

I see that your website has a link to http://stani.sh/pratyeka, which is the same username as "Pratyeka" who created this 529 byte stub for bitcoin on 8 March 2009:

  Bitcoin is an open source peer-to-peer electronic cash system developed by Satoshi Nakamoto that's completely P2P|decentralized, with no central server or trusted parties. Users hold the cryptography|crypto keys to their own money and transact directly with each other, with the help of the network to check for double-spending.

But the stub article did not meet wikipedia's standards as it lacked references to 3rd party sources, so was marked for deletion July ~10, 2010 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=342.0 and officially deleted July ~31, 2010 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=652.0 and was only restored after the bitcoin community rewrote it fully in a manner deemed sufficient by the wikipedia community.

And for the entire history, you are only responsible for 0.19% of edits to that page, according to https://tools.wmflabs.org/usersearch/usersearch.py?name=Prat...

Every little wikipedia stub and edit is important, but sorry I was off-put by you entrance displaying the mantle "Article creator here".

contingencies3• 11 years ago

Yes! Creation in the context of Wikipedia clearly means creation. FYI your research missed the fact that I was a part of the argument for undeleting / saving it from deletion twice, IIRC.

codewithcheese• 11 years ago

Is this implying that its popularity exploded on the 7th?

vinchuco2• 11 years ago

Nope.

danuker• 11 years ago

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=bitcoin#q=bitcoin&dat...

Meh. Anomaly or scrapers.

vinchuco2• 11 years ago

I have followed this regularly (it used to follow price more closely). This does seem unusual.

Interestingly: MIT BitcoinExpo was March 07-08

avnfish• 11 years ago

Wow, those 'top' statistics are quite depressing. Mainly films, celebrities, conspiracies, war, death and missing airplanes.

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