Hi Jan
Together with other people in my group, we wrote a paper about how Wikidata editors change their behaviour as they become more experienced. It might be not precisely what you are looking for, as our study has a qualitative approach, while it seems that you are looking for something more quantitative, but you might have a look if you want. This is the link: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/401755/
Please let me know if you have any questions, Alessandro
––– Alessandro Piscopo Web and Internet Science Group School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton email: A.Piscopo@soton.ac.ukmailto:A.Piscopo@soton.ac.uk
On 20 Mar 2017, at 09:34, Jan Dittrich <jan.dittrich@wikimedia.demailto:jan.dittrich@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hello,
I am looking for research on how editors transition through various levels of involvement in their time as editors. The questions I ask myself are:
- How many people to come each month? - How many editors leave?
…those are not too difficult to answer but…
- How many people become more involved over time? E.g. How many each month come to a level where they are interested in handling many pages on the watchlist, learn the less obvious aspects of wiki culture etc.
In my work as designer I am often involved in features for intermediate and/or very involved users and I’m wondering if there are any ballpark estimates of how many people learn these features each month.
Jan
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