if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project—every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in—that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought.
This seems ridiculously low. That’s an average of less than one minute per person worldwide.
This seems ridiculously low. That’s an average of less than one minute per person worldwide.
Most people don’t contribute to Wikipedia.
I think I’ve spent about a minute contributing to Wikipedia—and I’m one of those rare humans with access to a computer and clean water.
EDIT: Wait, including talk pages… probably several minutes.