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====On what days do you edit Wikipedia?====
Editing distribution throughout the week is important for the same reason as geographical distribution; if the workload is unfairly concentrated on a few individuals during a certain time period, it increases the chances of burnout and errors. In general, however, editing activity remained almost uniform throughout the week, including on weekends; this is not simply that editors were present all the time, but that as a group they engaged in the same level of activity, generally speaking, every day.

This doesn't, unfortunately, allow us to work out how patrols are distributed in time, but that data is being gathered separately. In the meantime, it does indicate that patrollers, as a group, tend to be fairly consistent contributors – which ties in with the idea that they're all relatively “tied in” to the movement.
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