A note of caution...
My understanding of action research is that it is BIG -- involves
organizational change on a large scale and a lot of time to go
longitudinal work. If you want to do it right, it's not anyone's side
project. And I always prefer to do it right. ;-)
I humbly suggest that a well-scoped, narrowly targeted correlational
study (or set of studies) would be the next step for pursuing the
quality-quantity connection. Even if one were to attempt action
research to understand the Wikipedia community and the design of the
rating system, I'm wondering if it wouldn't more like a design
experiment/design study, which is an approach that draws on action
research but (in my understanding) is focused more on developing
theories of human behavior and cognition and principles to inform the
design of artifacts like social and educational software.
Coincidentally, understanding the nuanced relationship between these
approaches is already on my to-do list, since I just started a
three-year design study!
Both of these approaches are complex and I would hesitate to undertake
anything on such a scale without the input of a researcher well-versed
in these methods and a detailed proposal for moving forward. If
someone has the time for this scale of project, wonderful. If everyone
is trying to squeeze it in among other big projects, maybe not the
best approach because my prediction is that we won't end up with
anything quality enough to matter.
-andrea
On 12/17/05, Jakob Voss <jakob.voss(a)nichtich.de> wrote:
Gordon Joly wrote:
At 08:55 -0500 16/12/05, Jimmy Wales wrote:
In January, it is anticipated that the
long-awaited "article validation"
feature will go live. This is essentially just a system for gathering
public feedback and *doing nothing with it* (at first). The idea is to
simply record feedback on all the articles and then take a look at it
with minimal a prior preconceptions on what it will tell us to do.
[...]
So, how does that differ from a member of the "public" editing by
correcting an article or musing in the talk page?
Action research anyone?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_research
I read Action research is
1. Data Collection
2. Evaluation
3. Action
4. ...
So what data do you need?
# edits per article (for which articles)
# edits on it's discussion page (dito)
# distinct authors per article
# distinct authors per discussion page
# percentage of anonymous edits
...?
Unfourtunately the history export is disabled but I can get the data out
of the XML dump und the database.
Greetings,
Jakob
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