Brian J Mingus wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu Date: Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:46 PM Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Quality and pageviews To: Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com
Interestingly, the result is negative. The correlation coefficient between 2500 featured articles and 2500 random articles is .18 which is very low. I also trained a linear classifier to predict the quality of an article based on the number of page views and it was no better than chance.
That reminds me of an incidental finding from our 2007 work: we wanted to use article edit rate to predict view rate, but there was no correlation between the two.
Reid