Hi Jan,
During my PhD, I did some research about how online uses evolve/develop over time in online communities using topic modeling / clustering. Topic modeling / mixture models are very powerful tools to learn the hidden knowledge and structures underlying the data.
These two papers may be what you are looking for:
1. Xiangju Qin, Pádraig Cunningham, Michael Salter-Townshend. “Online Trans-dimensional Von Mises-Fisher Mixture Models for User Profiles”. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 17(200): 1-51, 2016. http://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume17/15-454/source/15-454.pdf
2. Xiangju Qin, Derek Greene, Pádraig Cunningham. “A Latent Space Analysis of Editor Lifecycles in Wikipedia”. In: M. Atzmueller et al. (eds): MSM, MUSE, SenseML 2014. LNAI 9546, pp. 46–69, 2016. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-29009-6_3
A minus point of these two papers is that we didn't consider user activity in a very specific/niched level that you just described. Yes, considering user activity in these context would shape more insights about the potential challenges underlying Wikipedia platform (e.g. lost of different types of editors, changes in edits to different Wiki pages over time)
Hope this helpful.
Best, Xiangju
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Message: 1 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:34:31 +0100 From: Jan Dittrich jan.dittrich@wikimedia.de To: Wiki Research-l wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Editors: research on transitions, learning over time, leaving Message-ID: <CAC2423MxFb86WZODsO7FF487whmfkRqyFhi0apSFAQAMAX9crg@mail.gm ail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
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
-- Jan Dittrich UX Design/ User Research
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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
-- Jan Dittrich UX Design/ User Research
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de
Imagine a world, in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That‘s our commitment.
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