You say it's an unexpected result, I say it's completely expected. Skilled people do not become regular contributors to sites like Wikipedia, they have better things to do with their lives. They may, however, drop by and help out once in a while, but they're not going to bother with registering accounts or spending a lot of time on it. Nevertheless, these are the most valuable people, because they are skilled enough to have better things to do with their time.
Another recent article relating to this is here. Once again, experience flys in the face of the accepted internet wisdom that anonymous and unregistered posting makes for less worthwhile content.
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Date: 2006-09-06 11:54 am (UTC)For some time now, I've been (as you may have noticed) been pushing the agenda that registrations impedes worthwhile discussion and contribution, while anonymity and lack of registration encourages it. (The linked text was written by a friend, and it's a decent enough summary of the topic.)
You say it's an unexpected result, I say it's completely expected. Skilled people do not become regular contributors to sites like Wikipedia, they have better things to do with their lives. They may, however, drop by and help out once in a while, but they're not going to bother with registering accounts or spending a lot of time on it. Nevertheless, these are the most valuable people, because they are skilled enough to have better things to do with their time.
Another recent article relating to this is here. Once again, experience flys in the face of the accepted internet wisdom that anonymous and unregistered posting makes for less worthwhile content.