File talk:Cmd-rationalwiki-top50-last90days.png

All right... erm... how does this graph work?

Just a first exercise, and of course, worthless without a explanation. So, here it comes. I took the fifty editors who contributed the most edits to RW over the last 90 days. For each thread, I counted how many edits an editor made at it, getting quite long vectors which I normalized, getting points on a sphere. And voila, there I have a distance between editors :-) What does it imply? Two editors are near each other if they distribute their posts similarly of over the threads. User:Capturebot is far from everbody else, as he spends all his time on one single thread...

For these distances, I used multidimensional scaling to project the points of the (multidimensional) sphere to a two-dimensional plane: that's how I placed the names.

The lines indicates the number of threads a pair of editors shares.

The colors OTOH show a clustering of the editors according to a  version of k-means.

I'll just fool around with it for a little while... 09:30, 9 February 2009 (EST)


 * Ok... yes... now I completly understand. [[image:th unsure.gif]]
 * So am i close to AKjeldsen because our names overlap, or close to Carptrash because we're the same colour? And which colour is the cabal? Totnesmartin 09:53, 9 February 2009 (EST)
 * I would guess that the cluster along the top right are those who concentrate on WIGO. BTW, I love the idea but my fading eyesight makes the names very difficult. Silver Sloth 09:56, 9 February 2009 (EST)
 * The clusters should be more meaningful than the position in space... 10:05, 9 February 2009 (EST)


 * And thank you, Silver Sloth! I'll improve the pic - if there is any interest, that is :-) 10:07, 9 February 2009 (EST)
 * Oh, wow! I am THE most closely related to Trent in my editing patterns. Sweeeeeeeeeet. I hereby declare myself the inheriter of the Wiki!! [[image:plotting.gif]]
 * Or you're his sock. Totnesmartin 10:12, 9 February 2009 (EST)
 * Nothing distinguishing about me, it would seem. Though I thought I would be a bit closer to Human.  (Or maybe not, now that I think about it.)   10:19, 9 February 2009 (EST)