Glossary of Terms

You raise a bunch of important issues with measurement. We do need to account for anonymous editors as they comprise about 31% of all edits. Please see this reply on a related thread.

Edit count is imperfect (as are most metrics), but it does give us a basic understanding of the broad trends within our communities. We should use multiple metrics to make sure we're looking at these issues from different angles. Please see this section of the study (limitations of this study --> areas we should investigate in future work) and this post for some ideas that have been discussed.