Last week, I wrote about a page and a half on Lostpedia’s article of nicknames Lost characters have given each other.

Recap for those who are just joining us: Lostpedia.com is a Wikipedia all about Lost, and it’s contributors have seen fit to make an entire page that meticulously catalogs every instance of a Lost character calling another character by anything other than their given name.

I found the whole thing fascinating. Who does this? Thankfully, commenter Margeeka ran the numbers.

There have been a total of 597 edits to the list of Lost nicknames by 230 people. I theorized that while many people contributed, most of the heavy lifting was probably done by only a handful of uberdorks. I was wrong. To drop a buzz word, the workload has a long tail. The top 10 contributors only made a combined 168 edits, about 28% of the total.

Those top 10 are -
Jackdavinci (35)
Sockmonkey (28)
PandoraX (18)
Tricksterson (17)
Marik7772003 (14)
CTS (12)
Deming (12)
Eags (12)
Blue eagle islander (11)
Amberjet11 (9)

I find the process behind this and other well developed wiki’s fascinating. The tools for worldwide collaboration are so well developed that several hundred people were able to work together just to create this, a document of stunning unimportance. Think about all the things that could come from this system, the possibilities are infinite. If we get enough people, we might even figure out what the smoke monster is before season 5.

Margeeka, how did you get that data out of Lostpedia and crunch the numbers? I’m embarassed to admit it, but I wouldn’t mind running this on a few other ‘pedias I know of.