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This discussion report shows very interesting trends like the longest discussions often having few distinct users. However, this information seems better suited for year-end issues, rather than appearing in every issue like the Signpost's Traffic Report. Knowing article viewership helps identify which articles are high-profile enough to warrant greater editor attention. Knowing which discussions are highly disputed attracts even more input that may be counterproductive to resolving disagreement between parties with the relevant knowledge. After all, we already alert editors to which discussions need broad consensus through WP:centralized discussion. ViridianPenguin🐧 (💬) 14:34, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Total number of myriabytes	1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 0 .5 1 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38
	Size of bucket in myriabytes.

Here's the size of the buckets in the same units, which I've called myriabytes. Done in a rush so might need some tweaks. But the shorter buckets use more bytes. Note the first two buckets should be added together for better scaling. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 15:40, 18 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

In other words, reading all the short discussions is more text than reading all the long discussions, I'd say they are also more information dense, longer discussions tend to be repetitive. for context, eyeballing the top 100 table looks like about 14M, which is between 1-2,000 myriabytes. RF 12:22, 19 July 2025 (UTC)
"emojus" made me laugh. Thanks for this amusing etymological joke. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:43, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is a very interesting report. Somewhat related are the few users who dominate Wikipedia policy discussions. We think of it as emergent behavior by millions of editors, but really more like a village of a few number of hyper-active editors - the same power law curve will apply, with a fraction of users at the top the rest in the long tail. -- GreenC 16:00, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe 11,307 characters. "I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture—a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees—very gradually—I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever." -- GreenC 16:14, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No surprise that the Persistent, long-term battleground behavior from multiple editors at capitalization RMs thread is at the top of the list for length. Good thing Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Article titles and capitalisation 2/Evidence has word limits! Some1 (talk) 20:11, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]