Want to take part in these discussions? Sign in if you have an account, or apply for one below
Vanilla 1.1.10 is a product of Lussumo. More Information: Documentation, Community Support.
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
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
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 |
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!
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.
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 Lab, 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.
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.
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!
1 to 8 of 8