I guess what matters between our perspective is what message you want this data to inform.

Highlighting low income earners distracts from the message of "what income bands are affected by student loan debt" which is what this is informing in my head canon.

Debt modification/forgiveness is not a "poor Americans" issue.

Logically edits increase as content increases. It’d be nice to see this related to content. Has user activity increased per unit of content ? Or has activity just grown with content?

They don’t like to have fun between September and December?

Why didnt you tell that to all the businesses that got bailed out or helped?

Students in schools editing wiki pages for fun.

No, that can be a separate chart. I think this is interesting by itself.

I don’t disagree with that but the bottom 20% are probably not gonna have any financial wiggle room at all

I think the assumption that 20-60 percentile, even up to 80, have that much free income is not as realistic as one might imagine

Because higher income individuals have the ability to pay off student debt, so those aren’t as relevant. If you have 50k in debts but only earn 40k a year the debt will be a massive financial strain but if you earn 150k a year you don’t really have to worry about it

The edits in april are for april fools?????

Interesting chart, I assume 2007 or so is due to the financial collapse. Why doesn’t the chart continue to the present day? It would be interesting to see COVID lockdown timeframes.

I feel like this would be better illustrated with a logarithmic scale.

In 2007 you could still edit wikipedia really easily and that's when it started to get really big and started appearing at the top of every Google search.

When I was in high school we would change it on purpose for smaller things as a prank (one of our teachers had a page because they were published).

I remember in history class we would edit it to show how easy misinformation could get published on the internet.

They tightened it up after, so that's probably why the edit numbers went down.

Sure it does. It shows Wikipedia Edits by Day.

You took out the loan. Pay it back yourself 😊

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This is a very odd thing to put together, but it's weirdly fascinating.

What happened in 2007-2008 other than the financial meltdown....

...was it simply more people being out of work and therefore having more time to edit Wikis?

Yes. Student loan forgiveness is a money grab by the most affluent earners.

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The data comes from Wikipedia Statistics (see data set here). I created this using Illustrator.

I'd love to see that up to 2023. I wonder what's driving the increase in Jan-April

I’ll use it if it goes through, but it’s really a bad plan… we will be in the same exact place within 4 years.

That would be a good fix to the problem