Hi Andreea,
I have processed most of the RfA data of the german wikipedia with a
imperfect workflow of
1. a perl script that fetches the data (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl
)
2. a manual correction of exceptions and
3. a validation and import by an GNU R script. (
www.r-project.org/)
Because of exceptions the process can as far as I see not be fully
automated. The perl script is just a quick hack and I had to change it
during the process. So it is still a lot of manual work as long as
there is no better implementation of votes in the wiki engine.
Contact if you want me to send it to you.
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(Besides many questions that I wanted to answer but wasn't able to
answer (-; ) I am interested in the simple question: What dertermines
vote decisions of individuals in WP?
I expect "pro"-votes to be
1. a mixture of expression of TRUST in (a) the candidate, (b) the
nominating user or (c) users that have voted before.
2. a bounded rational (especially affective distorted) decision about
the expected benefit of a candidate
(a) according to OWN political and organisation-political INTERESTS and
(b) according to the perceived benefit to ORGANISATIONAL INTERESTS.
I am about to test the effect of different user variables (aggregated
of logged user actions like revisions and user relations that can be
accessed from within the
https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Main_Page)
on vote decisions.
As far as I see that is complementary to surveying the voters what Ben
is about to do. From a sociological point of view what participants
think and say musn't have to be exactly what they are doing.
Best wishes from Germany
Marc