Hi,
I don't know the article, but check if searching here helps
http://www.mail-archive.com/wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org/
http://wikimedia.7.n6.nabble.com/WikiMedia-Research-f1477409.html
I don't know why I cannot use google.com with the parameter "site:" for this mailing list archive https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l.
Tom
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Kerry Raymond kerry.raymond@gmail.com wrote:
In the past few months, I read a paper (or a draft paper?) that I think was shared on this mailing list. Unfortunately I seem to have lost both the paper and the email (job change), so I would be grateful if anyone could send me the paper or a link or whatever.
IIRC, the paper was looking at editor retention, particularly the retention of new editors. I think there were about 8 hypotheses given and some experiments conducted to test these. The one I remember most clearly was the finding that new good-faith editors were highly likely to see their contributions deleted, by either bots or more experienced editors, and this was likely to be de-motivating for them.
If anyone can help with this, it would be much appreciated.
Kerry
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