Ah hah, thanks Paolo, this I did not know, in fact as
I received this I was following up Amy's suggestion of the database telling if
it's > 30 which i think was leading to this tool :)
I've posted on that guy's talk page, perhaps this can be done historically, in
which case I can build up a (small but random) sample time-series, compare to editing
counts and have some vague idea of the ratios/tracking.
Thanks all (but if there are other suggestions or even experiences keep 'em coming
;)
Cheers,
James
On Jul 1, 2010, at 15:39, paolo massa wrote:
I agree on the "neat project".
Probably you already know but I write it anyway just in case that the
API gives you a way of knowing how many (but not which users) follow a
certain page.
For example the following link
http://toolserver.org/~mzmcbride/watcher/?db=enwiki_p&titles=September_…
will tell you that these pages are followed by X people
September 11 attacks 1314
Palestine 360
Israel 1164
Sex 965
Homepage 51
Wikipedia 3303
Main Page 68347
2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull 96
I guess you can assume it as an indication of global interest, of
course, unfortunately this does not solve your problem of knowing
individual interests ;(
P.
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 7:41 PM, James Howison <james(a)howison.name> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm working on a study for which I'd like to know more about editors'
watchlisting practices. Of course what I'd really like is to know who had what page
on their watchlist when, but I understand the obvious privacy issues there. I assume
those issues explain why that information is not (AFAIK) available in dumps etc.
I have read some great qualitative pieces which discuss watchlisting [e.g. 1], which are
very helpful (please don't hesitate to suggest others), but haven't seen
quantitative data, which our study calls for.
Failing exact data, what do we know about the distribution of practices of watchlisting?
Currently my plan is to assume that anyone who has edited an article in the past 6 months
has it on their watchlist. Obviously a very corse assumption. If we had any empirical
knowledge about these practices then I could use a distribution (e.g. editors have the
page on their watchlist at some % chance, altering depending on their number/tenure of
editing that page). I also don't have any way to estimate whether someone who has
never edited a page has a page on their watchlist (or assuming that some do, whether
there's any useful way to guess which pages they are likely to have on their
watchlists).
Grateful for any suggestions or reactions,
Thanks,
James Howison
[1]: Bryant, S., Forte, A., and Bruckman, A. (2005). Becoming Wikipedian: transformation
of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia. In Proceedings of the 2005
international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work, page 10. ACM.
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