[Wikimediaindia-l] Survey regarding Indic wikis

[Ramesh N G]

Mayur, This is really great work!
This should be an Inspiration to improve on the weak areas of each
wikipedia.

regards
Ramesh NG



On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:58 PM, mayur <mayurdce at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>          I am mayur a hindi wikipedian.I have prepared a survey to
> determine overall quality of a wikipedia project.Here is the link
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IFphBpq14eMUjoBcy0wk-WWQNTQ5vxpq_o285DyrqvU/edit?hl=en  for
> survey report. Here is the Summary for that
>
>
> *Why did we do that survey?*
>
> As we know there are lots of Indic wiki projects having different number of
> active users and article. However we simply differentiate them on behalf of
> number of articles or depth but that cannot give us an actual overall growth
> of that project because many projects are simply bot generated as we know
> about Nepal bhasha and Bishnupriya Manipuri Wikipedia. Simply a project
> growth can be measured from its article quality and number of articles both.
> A project having large no of articles having good quality of article has
> grown faster.
>
>
>
> *How did we measure quality of a wiki project?*
>
> Quality of a wiki project is simply depends upon how many articles are
> developed from their stubs root. Generally each article is started from a
> stub. Now quality of the article mainly depends upon how much time it has
> been edited and how many words are in it or how many long the article is? So
> we choose different factor which directly affects the quality of article.
> These are-
>
> 1)  *Nr. of good articles (Articles having size>2 KB)*
>
> Simply a project having more articles of size 2 KB has grown much in
> comparison to another. But this alone cannot decide quality of a project
> that’s why we included some another factors. We simply took the percentage
> of articles having size greater than 2 KB. We gave a marking scale of 150 to
> this.
>
> 2) *Nr. of Average articles (Articles having size>0.5 KB)*
>
> Simply to filter the stubs we choose this criteria, we gave marking scale
> of 100 to this just less than above because article having size greater than
> 2 KB reflects much growth in comparison to 0.5 KB article.
>
> 3) *Average number of words in an article*
>
> That was too tricky to calculate but we simply divided total number of
> words in a project by total nr. of articles in it for a rough estimate. To
> keep this in the marking scale of 100 we simply multiplied the output value
> by 0.1 In our formula.
>
> 4) *Avg. size of article (KB)*
>
> That was also tricky to calculate but we simply divided total size of a
> project by total nr. of articles in it for a rough estimate. To keep this in
> the marking scale of 100 we simply multiplied the output value by 10 In our
> formula.
>
> 5) *Main space edit per total nr. Of articles*
>
> That was also an important factor to know how frequently an article is
> being edited for being updated. Output value was already on a scale of 100
> so we did not multiply of divided that value.
>
> 6) *Total Edits/article*
>
> This is also an Important factor because it reflects how much extra edits
> (that includes categorization, image uploads and some other similar factors)
> are being performed in a wiki project. As Output value was already on a
> scale of 100 so we did not multiply of divided that value.
>
> 7) *Bot edits*
>
> That was the most important factor because all the factor that we discussed
> can be gained at high value by running bots like in Nepal bhasha and
> Bishnupriya Manipuri Wikipedia. So we simply multiplied the overall score by
> percentage non bot edits. However bots edits in some extant are also a
> necessary part. So we just set the 50% bot edits as a cut off mark. For A
> wiki having more than 50% of bot edits we simply multiplied total score by
> (100-(bot edits if larger than 50%-50))
>
> *Formula for Quality factor = (R*0.1+Q*10+E+F*1.5+P+O)*(100-N)/100*
>
> *R- Average number of words in an article*
>
> *Q- Avg. size of article (KB)*
>
> *E- Article greater than 2kb*
>
> *F-* *Article greater than 0.5kb*
>
> *P-* *Total Edits/article*
>
> *O-* *Mainspace edit per total nr. Of articles*
>
> *N-* *Share of Bot edits (%)*
>
> * *
>
> *Overall  Score   =      Number of articles * Quality factor*
>
> * *
>
> * *
>
> **
>
> *Thank you and Regards*
>
> *Mayur*
>
>
>
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