Lurk-o-meter

Wikipedian  MZMcBride recently launched a new tool that reports how many people watchlist a given page.  This has interesting uses.  Word first reached this direction last night.  Today Jehochman's page update served as a reminder (because, of course, I watchlist it).  Wikipedians being what they are, I soon ran a search on Jehochman whose userspace is being watched by 263 people.  Comparison to Jimbo Wales's user talk (1893 watchers) shows that Jehochman's user space receives 13.9% as much attention.

So to coin a unit of measurement, the centijimbo is 1/100th the number of watchers that Jimbo Wales has.  One centijimbo currently equals approximately 19 watchers.  It's a relative measurement so this could alter as people add and drop watchlist pages.

Here's how several prominent Wikipedians measure up:

• GiacomoReturned (featured article contributor): 5.4 centijimbos
• Roger Davies (arbitrator): 6.8 centijimbos
• Elonka (administrator): 15.6 centijimbos
• YellowMonkey (functionary, featured article review coordinator): 19.0 centijimbos
• JzG (administrator): 27.7 centijimbos

The two most lurked Wikipedians other than Jimbo himself appear to be JzG and Raul654, who have 525 and 524 watchers respectively.

One might hold interesting debates over what these numbers mean, which factors affect them, or why the Wikipedian with the highest centijimbo rating has a deleted userpage.
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Juliancolton (13.8 cj) has noted that SlimVirgin measures 32.9 centijimbos.