It’s been 48 hours since we introduced Common Knowledge, our “social cataloging” initiative and it’s been a HUGE success.*

Six-hundred and fifty members have contributed an edit, making 17,437 edits total (adding multiple characters, for example, counted as a single edit). Check out the changelog and watch it happen.

It’s our job to support what you’re doing. Apart from obsessively adding facts ourselves–Chris and I both made the top 20 contributors!–Chris has been working on UI improvements, and we’ve both been very active discussing it, bugs, new fields, the gender issue and other topics. There’s a lot to do.

More statistics. The top contributor was shortride with an astonishing 1,383 edits. English got the lion share of edits, with second-place German coming in at 441 edits. (We’re still working on how to show information from other languages.)

Top contributors		Top fields
Shortride	1383	Awards and honors	4412
MikeBriggs	614	Character name	3398
fleela	458	Gender	2297
realSandy	383	Important places	2255
PhoenixTerran	350	Places of residence	1587
tardis	336	Birthdate	1197
sabreuse	311	Education	869
VictoriaPL	301	Date of death	552
tripleblessings	291	Organizations	430
AnnaClaire	277	Description	200
Rtrace	275	Disambiguation notice	116
andyl	247	Publisher’s editor	62
rorrison	242	Agent	60
timspalding	238
SqueakyChu	234
conceptDawg	228

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*We’re pretty impressed by all the activity, especially considering it hasn’t been as blogged as much as some past features.** But I gave it a good push talking yesterday at the Ohio Library Council. (Come see me talk again today.) And something like this can only grow. APIs will be key.
**Tip of the hat, however, to Superpatron, Joshua M. Neff and Wicked Librarian.

Labels: common knowledge, new feature, new features