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    • CommentRowNumber1.
    • CommentAuthorRichard Williamson
    • CommentTimeJan 4th 2021
    • (edited Jan 4th 2021)

    For a bit of fun, here are a few stats from last year!

    Number of distinct pages edited on the nLab in 2020: 4055

    Number of distinct edits on the nLab in 2020: 10441

    Number of distinct edits per author (minimum 5):

    c   author
    6978    Urs Schreiber
    460 Anonymous
    429 David Corfield
    291 Dmitri Pavlov
    189 Thomas Holder
    139 Tim Porter
    136 Richard Williamson
    135 Paolo Perrone
    116 Toby Bartels
    102 John Baez
    100 Daniel Luckhardt
    100 David Roberts
    99  Luigi Alfonsi
    89  Todd Trimble
    64  Matt Oliveri
    57  Mike Shulman
    43  Oscar Cunningham
    39  alexis.toumi
    36  Hurkyl
    35  varkor
    34  Zoran Škoda
    22  Jesus Lopez
    22  Jon Awbrey
    22  Yuxi Liu
    20  Fabian
    18  Théo de Oliveira S.
    16  Valeria de Paiva
    15  Felipe Ponce
    15  mattecapu
    14  Egbert Rijke
    14  Daniele Palombi
    14  Mark S Davis
    14  Yuri Ximenes Martins
    12  Sam Staton
    11  Ben Moon
    11  tphyahoo
    10  Elves
    9   Chase Bednarz
    8   AnodyneHoward
    8   Jake Bian
    8   mmanu F
    8   Max S. New
    8   Viet
    8   Jin
    7   arsmath
    7   Lucas Immanuel Janz
    7   ziggurism
    7   Theresa May
    7   Vikraman Choudhury
    7   edeany@umich.edu
    7   Luidnel Maignan
    6   AlexisHazell
    6   Bartosz Milewski
    6   NikolajK
    6   Younesse Kaddar
    6   J Koizumi
    6   VitalyR
    6   Adam
    6   Jonas Frey
    6   Ulrik Buchholtz
    5   Antonin Delpeuch
    5   David Jaz Myers
    5   DavidWhitten
    5   Ivan
    5   Tobias Fritz
    5   Mark John Hopkins
    5   Théo
    

    Most edited pages in 2020 (minimum 30 distinct edits):

    c   name
    202 Sandbox
    70  flavour anomaly
    70  AdS-QCD correspondence
    52  skyrmion
    52  chiral perturbation theory
    49  Critique of Pure Reason
    36  meson
    36  CompLF/HOAS
    32  Adams e-invariant
    
  1. For comparison, here are the stats for 2019.

    Number of distinct pages edited on the nLab in 2019: 3704

    Number of distinct edits on the nLab in 2019: 9845

    Number of distinct edits per author (minimum 5):

    c   author
    6529    Urs Schreiber
    412 Anonymous
    398 David Corfield
    321 Mike Shulman
    198 Daniel Luckhardt
    150 Zoran Škoda
    145 Tim Porter
    135 David Roberts
    124 Paolo Perrone
    119 Dmitri Pavlov
    111 Richard Williamson
    99  Matt Oliveri
    79  Todd Trimble
    76  Toby Bartels
    55  John Baez
    43  Jesús López
    40  James Francese
    38  Joe Moeller
    37  Ammar Husain
    29  Thomas Holder
    26  Sam Staton
    22  alexis.toumi
    20  Joe M
    20  Bas Spitters
    19  AlexisHazell
    17  Jamie Vicary
    16  Alec Rhea
    16  Lukas Stoll
    15  Jonas Frey
    14  varkor
    14  Elves
    13  Tim Campion
    13  anqurvanillapy
    13  Daniele Palombi
    11  HieronymousCoward
    10  Ulrik Buchholtz
    10  Ali Caglayan
    10  Jade Master
    10  Lucy
    9   Keith Harbaugh
    8   Max S. New
    8   Jon Awbrey
    8   Marc
    8   mattecapu
    8   RodMcGuire
    8   Fabian
    8   Fosco
    7   Maxence Mayrand
    7   Mamuka Jibladze
    7   Jules Hedges
    6   BenMacAdam
    6   cofo
    5   Mike Pierce
    5   Nico Courts
    5   Kirk Sturtz
    5   DnlGrgk
    5   Chase Bednarz
    5   lemastero
    

    Most edited pages in 2019 (minimum 30 distinct edits):

    c   name
    178 Sandbox
    92  flavour anomaly
    56  CompLF
    55  RR-field tadpole cancellation
    53  graph complex
    49  AdS-QCD correspondence
    46  configuration space of points
    40  cohomotopy
    39  M5-brane
    35  Vassiliev invariant
    33  GUT
    33  Sp(n).Sp(1)
    31  AdS-CFT
    31  leptoquark
    31  orientifold
    
    • CommentRowNumber3.
    • CommentAuthorRichard Williamson
    • CommentTimeJan 4th 2021
    • (edited Jan 4th 2021)

    And just the summary stats for all previous years:

    Year Distinct page edits Distinct edits Authors with at least 5 distinct edits
    2020 4055 10441 67
    2019 3704 9845 58
    2018 3339 9078 53
    2017 3563 10419 48
    2016 3088 9296 50
    2015 3260 7723 44
    2014 4250 12375 54
    2013 4201 11412 40
    2012 4020 12059 50
    2011 3253 9597 39
    2010 3525 14468 52
    2009 2689 19875 56
    2008 284 1232 13
    • CommentRowNumber4.
    • CommentAuthorRichard Williamson
    • CommentTimeJan 4th 2021
    • (edited Jan 4th 2021)

    Overall, I think we can say that 2020 was a good year for the nLab! Highest page edits and distinct edits since the early years (when many topics remained unwritten, so it was ’easy’ to add new material), and the highest number of authors with at least 5 edits ever! This despite much reduced activity from Mike, one of the main contributors in earlier years, and also from Zoran.

    My non-statistical impression had been that the nLab has begun to see a bit of a ’new wave’ of contributors over the last few years, and more people seem to be chipping in to make contributions. Good to see that the statistics seem to support this!

    • CommentRowNumber5.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeJan 4th 2021

    Thanks for these, Richard. Yes, good to see some more contributors, but that Urs achieves around 2/3 of edits (and substantial ones, rather than the proof-reading which make up the majority of mine) is remarkable.

    • CommentRowNumber6.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJan 4th 2021

    Richard, thanks for this. I had silently been wondering if such statistics could easily be produced. Interesting to see that you had had the same thought.

    Often I hear people say that they might consider contributing to the nnLab, oh if only they didn’t have more important research-related writing to take care of! Then I try to explain that that’s backwards:

    People should think of using the nLab as making notes for their research, not instead of it.

    One can see this reflected in the lists of most edited entries you produced: These are largely on those topics that I have been publishing articles about in these years (here).

    The only exceptions are CompLF – which from its Idea-section sounds like it is Matt Olivieri’s research notes – and Critique of Pure Reason – which likely serve a similar purpose to Daniel Luckhardt.

    • CommentRowNumber7.
    • CommentAuthorDmitri Pavlov
    • CommentTimeJan 4th 2021
    • (edited Jan 4th 2021)

    Often I hear people say that they might consider contributing to the nLab, oh if only they didn’t have more important research-related writing to take care of!

    Some of the most important things to make editing the nLab easier:

    • Editing or saving edited pages currently causes extreme delays and/or timeouts.

    • Obscure, totally baffling error messages that do not indicate the line/position where the error occurs. Also: “LaTeX error” for perfectly correct LaTeX code, so it’s actually “iTeX” error, and a totally obscure one at that (no indication whatsoever of what the error is).

    • Obscure modification of TeX (iTeX) that constantly obstructs my editing. At one point, I wanted to modify iTeX to fix the most egregious aspects, but realized that the scope of required works is so big, we might as well switch to MathJax and forget about iTeX.

    • CommentRowNumber8.
    • CommentAuthorHurkyl
    • CommentTimeJan 5th 2021

    People should think of using the nLab as making notes for their research, not instead of it.

    I definitely use nLab in a similar way to this. If I want a reference for something and don’t find it here on nLab… then when I do find it I often put it here on nLab so that I have it for a reference!