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1% rule - 1% of users actively create new content, while 99% lurk. (en.wikipedia.org)

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In Internet culture, the 1% rule is a general rule of thumb pertaining to participation in an Internet community, stating that only 1% of the users of a website actively create new content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk. Variants include the 1–9–90 rule (sometimes 90–9–1 principle or the 89:10:1 ratio),[1] which states that in a collaborative website such as a wiki, 90% of the participants of a community only consume content, 9% of the participants change or update content, and 1% of the participants add content.

Similar rules are known in information science; for instance, the 80/20 rule known as the Pareto principle states that 20 percent of a group will produce 80 percent of the activity, regardless of how the activity is defined.

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[–] lokalhorst@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It is pretty easy. If you are a new account then of course someone needs to review your changes. I sometimes fix some typos or faulty sentences, but never added original content. But I guess you start small and the more small changes you make, the more trust you get.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 days ago

On the German Wikipedia at least there are too many Blockwarte that delete new pages as not relevant almost immediatly, so I gave up trying to contribute there.