Seems like some of these questions seem like they need data not just on revisions, but on
web visitors, and click stream patterns. Does the foundation collect or make web access
data available?
--J
On Apr 11, 2010, at 17:14, Luca de Alfaro wrote:
Hi Mayo,
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Fuster, Mayo <Mayo.Fuster(a)eui.eu> wrote:
Hi everybody!
How are you? I hope happy and fine. I am Mayo Fuster Morell doing a Phd
research on Wikipedia governance at the European University Institute.
I would appreciate if you could help me with three specific doubts that I
have on Wikipedia data.
* Is there data or research results on number of users per article? Plus,
what is the more frequent number of users per article? Or, what is the
distribution of number of editors/article?
I was about to say that this can be derived easily from an analysis of the
revisions database table, but then I noticed that no dump of this table in
isolation is available from
download.wikimedia.org...
You can however access all this data by using the Wikipedia API (
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API) but it requires some programming.
* Is there data on gender distribution? I know
there is the general survey
(which say 12.83% women are contributors) and Ortega works. Is there any
other data on gender distribution?.
* Does the site learn from the navigation and searches? That is, if a
Wikipedia visitor who reads a Network entry then goes to the Manuel Castells
entry, Will the system understand there is a connexion between them? Will
next time put them together when presenting search results?
Any suggestion to solve these doubts is very welcome! Looking forward for
Wikimania! Mayo
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