Wiki-research-l May 2012

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] long in tooth: highly active editors are 1/3 fewer
by Richard Jensen 03 May '12

03 May '12

the pool of highly active editors is making one-third fewer edits now than in 2007 Wikipedians who contributed 100 times or more in this month Mar 2012 3429 down 34% from Mar 2007 = 5190 Wikipedians who contributed 5 times or more in this month Mar 2012 34,372 down 36% from Mar 2007 = 54,074 I think the once-active editors are running out of new things to write about. That is a sign of maturity, I suggest. Wikipedia is not a fast-growing teenager any more. ~~~~

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] long in tooth.
by Richard Jensen 02 May '12

02 May '12

>A random sample, or something systematic? I've started with major wars (WWI, WW2, American Civil War, War of 1812, 30 years war, Napoleonic wars, War of 1812; and generals --Napoleon, Washington, Eisenhower, etc.) because they seem to involve both very high reader interest and the strength of many editors. Is there a current list of the 100 or 1000 most viewed articles? I'd like to work from that. ~~~~

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The Wikimedia Research Newsletter 2(4) is out
by Dario Taraborelli 01 May '12

01 May '12

The largest Wikimedia Research Newsletter ever published is out: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2012-04-30 In this issue: 1 Recognition may sustain user participation 2 Can Wiktionary rival traditional lexicons? 3 Wikipedia as an academic publisher? 4 Wikipedia citations in American law reviews 5 One in four of articles tagged as flawed, most often for verifiability issues 6 Time evolution of Wikipedia discussions 7 APWeb2012 papers on admin networks, mitigating language bias and finding "minority information" 8 Briefly 9 References ••• 29 publications were covered in this issue ••• Thanks to User:Lambiam, Piotr Konieczny, Jodi Schneider, Amir E. Aharoni, Steven Walling, Giovanni Ciampaglia and Adam Hyland for their contribution There's more: * Follow us on Twitter/Identi.ca: @WikiResearch * Receive this newsletter by mail: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/research-newsletter * Subscribe to the RSS feed: http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/research-2/wikimedia-research-newsletter/feed/ * Download the full 45-page PDF of Volume 1 (2011): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/WRN_2011.pdf Dario Taraborelli and Tilman Bayer

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