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There is a silent majority here on the English Wikipedia, a majority of editors who do not post messages to talk-pages, as well as editors who talk much less than editing the other pages of articles, templates, guidelines, etc. The monthly data counts collected for editor activity show that over two-thirds of active editors (the majority), per month, post mostly (or all) as article-update edits or template/help edits, rather than talk-page, or user-talk, or Wikipedia-talk, or template-talk (etc.) edits.
However, because the edit-summary lines can act as messages to other editors, then even editors who rarely edit talk-pages, directly, could be sending edit-summary messages and not be totally "silent" in a strict sense. So, the concept of the silent majority, for talk-pages, relates more to being silent about user-talk dialogues, opinion polls, open debates, ranks of priorities, or consensus-building discussions. Also, there is a loophole in talk-page accounting, where people who merely delete the messages, as posted by other editors, are counted as making talk-page edits, even though they are not posting messages and are actually silent in reply.