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> The content is mostly written by subject matter experts that contribute large blocks of useful text to just a few articles each.

That sounds like the ideal scenario. Any evidence that it is or isn’t this way? I would guess it’s skewed more towards a handful of folks simply writing many articles about things they’re moderately knowledgeable about.

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I actually ran a full character-level diff with move detection over the entire wikipedia edit history (few thousand machines) back in ~2008.

The vast majority of content was created by a long tail of users, with a very small minority of users being the last to "touch" a particular piece of text (copy edits, moving things around, etc).

Probably should have published that.

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