1% rule

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

In Internet culture, the 1% rule is a general rule of thumb pertaining to participation in an Internet community, stating that only 1% of the users of a website actively create new content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “1% rule”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Life of Riley, Simon Villeneuve (translation), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.