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Panciera et al. (2009) looked at comparing the results between Wikipedians who have at least edited articles 250 times versus non-Wikipedia editors. They found that "when you try, Wikipedia, you either do a lot of work over time, or do a little and quickly lose interest" (p. 54). Next, they looked at the quality of Wikipedia edits and they report that "Wikipedians seem to be born not made. They begin at a certain level of authority, but they do not improve over time" (p. 56).

They speculate "that [Wikipedian] editors are learning the community norms from scratch (going from not knowing about vandalism to citing vandalism as a problem) or editors are learning to invoke the related norms (going from reverting for NPOV to citing NPOV as the reason for the revert)" (p. 59).

They talk about this idea of "community maintanence editing" where they

They find four main messages:

1. "Wikipedians are the essential core of the Wikipedia community"

2. "Wikipedians are born, not made"

3. "Wikipedians are consistent"

4. "Wikipedians don't do more over time" (p. 59).