Amir, this is a great! suggestion.  Configuration is a data source we have not considered for analysis yet, you have my support but will have to convince Kevin of the priority / importance.

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Not to my knowledge, I'm afraid. Others may be aware of research I'm
not, however.

On 8 January 2015 at 04:00, Amir E. Aharoni

<amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any research about the influence of autopromote variables on
> participation, editor retention, and such things?
>
> I am mainly talking about $wgAutoConfirmAge and $wgAutoConfirmCount.
>
> See the current values at
> http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php
>
> These are different in various languages, and they seem rather random to me.
> The idea is supposed to be to prevent vandalism without hurting wikiness and
> editor retention, but are the current values based on any analytics?
>
> I went over all the bugs that are mentioned in the file to which I linked
> above. All of them say "we had a discussion and we reached a consensus". I
> cannot read all these languages, but my wild guess is that people just threw
> some numbers around without basing it on analytics, and voted to accept
> them. The discussion in the English Wikipedia[1] is, non-surprisingly, the
> longest (47 A4 pages); I didn't read it all, but it doesn't seem to be based
> on any metrics either.
>
> Anecdotally, I can recall many more times when I, as a Wikipedian, had to
> explain people that they need to do a few more edits to get a permission to
> move pages, than I had to revert bad page moves by new editors, so there is
> a possibility that the autopromote values are not actually very good.
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed_Proposal/Poll
>
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