I assume they're dividing his "almost 3 million edits" by the "more than 5.7 million articles" on en.wp.
It's obviously extremely wrong, but their incentives aren't for being sticklers on accuracy. It's on being sensational.
It's obviously extremely wrong, but their incentives aren't for being sticklers on accuracy. It's on being sensational.
If this guy is correct, the edits are sufficiently spread across different articles for him to have touched 1/3 of them. Still obviously not the same as writing, but it puts the headline in a slightly less absurd light.
[0] https://www.quora.com/Who-is-Ser-Amantio-di-Nicolao-of-Wikip...
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/meet-the-m...