The interesting thing here is, 4.8M unique red links in 2009, and unique 5.6M red links in 2011. *The more articles are created, the more articles are missing*.
2011/9/6 Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org
Greetings everyone,
Now that the the WMF summer research program in the Community Department has come to a close, I wanted to point interested parties to the body of findings we've produced.
We covered a lot of territory so to save you the trouble if you just want to browse, we collected our most salient results into one wiki page.
- Relevant blog post here:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/09/06/summer-research-findings/
- Summary of findings on Meta, with links to further documentation:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_Summer_o...
Next steps are twofold for this program:
- We'll be working with the Global Development team and some
volunteers from the local community to extend these analyses to cover Portuguese Wikipedia, specifically to support Global Dev's work in Brazil. 2. We're choosing and implementing a platform to release not just our code, but the datasets we compiled over the summer. You'll hear more about this soon, but we're taking our time in order to decide on a solution that will work in the long term for sharing open data beyond the dumps.
Last but not least, if anyone would like to have a more in-depth discussion about these findings and the research that produced them, I'm definitely open to hosting an IRC office hours with some members of the team. Just let me know if you're interested (on or offlist) and I'll set something up soon.
-- Steven Walling Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org
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