It really boils down to the question whether you want to help others and/or get help. See:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Researcher

Based on your page here ( https://www.csi.ucd.ie/users/xiangju-qin ), I will suggest you to compare/contrast your definition/measure of Edit Longevity to Editor retention:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Editor_retention

which is authored mainly by the WMF research scientist User:Halfak_(WMF)

Thank you for being honest in reporting that your supervisor "didn't understand the implications of adding one's project to Wikipedia research page."   You might want to tell him that 
* one may find related/extra/competing theories
* one may find related/extra/competing findings/datasets
* one may find related/extra/competing tools/methods
* one may turn your tools/methods into useful dashboards for Wikipedia editors to reflect on their actions and outcomes.



2014-11-07 23:39 GMT+01:00 Xiangju Qin <qinxiangju@gmail.com>:
Dear all,

   I'm Xiangju Qin, a PhD student at School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland.

   I just joint this Wikipedia research mailing list and know little about it. I guess the members of this mailing list is a mixture of people from Wikipedia (either admins or editors), people from the academia like me. So what are the main purposes of this mailing list? Mainly discussing research (projects or papers) about Wikipedia?

   I would also like to know the following question:

   When I emailed a Wikipedia editor about his feedbacks about our paper (he made some comments about our paper in Wikipedia Signpost-Sep-24-2014), he suggested me to add my project to Wiki-research page in order to get suggestions/advice from Wikipedia people.

   I emailed my advisor about this. He said that he didn't understand the implications of adding one's project to Wikipedia research page. I don't know much about this either. Has any one in this mailing list add his own project to the Wikipedia page? Has you found it helpful and gotten much valuable suggestions/advice from the Wikipedia community about your project?

   Many thanks!

   Have a nice weekend everyone!

   Best wishes,


Xiangju

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Xiangju Qin, PhD Student at UCD CSI
Address: School of Computer Science & Informatics, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

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