Re. non-English Wikipedia and editor retention: I ran a large-scale field experiment in and with the community of Swiss editors. We show that purely symbolic awards that provide social recognition increase newcomer retention by 20%, and the effect persists for over a year after initial award receipt:
Gallus, J. (2017). " Fostering public good contributions with symbolic awards: A large-scale natural field experiment at Wikipedia ( https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.2016.2540 )." Management Science 63(12): 3999-4015.
Would you mind sharing the eventual article with us? I greatly enjoyed following this thread and look forward to the article.
On Fri, Dec 18th, 2020 at 9:39 AM, Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, I love the study about Wikipedia articles in different language versions, and the consequences for tourism in Spain accordlingly. The researchers improved articles about Spanish locations, and then the tourism there went up. Kind regards Ziko
Hinnosaar, Marit/Toomas Hinnosaar/Michael Kummer/Olga Slivko (2017): Does Wikipedia Matter? The effect of Wikipedia on Tourist Choices, Discussion Paper No. 15-089, Zentrum für Wirtschaftsforschung, http://ftp.zew.de.
Am Fr., 18. Dez. 2020 um 18:33 Uhr schrieb < fn@imm.dtu.dk >:
In Wikidata we have annotated 1873 items (articles, books, etc.) as about Wikipedia. Some of them are listed in Scholia: https://scholia.toolforge.org/topic/Q52
Halfaker et al's "2013" paper, as mentioned, I would also mention.
Apart from that there is the famous Nature editorial article "Internet encyclopaedias go head to head" from 2005 which may have contributed to Wikipedia rise. I think it is the most cited Wikipedia study. It has 3182 Google Scholar citations. And it is the most cited study among the Wikipedia works in Wikidata.
best regards Finn
On 18/12/2020 18.23, Jeremy Foote wrote: When it comes to understanding relationships between multiple language
editions, I think that Bao et al.'s work on Omnipedia has a bunch of
great
insights for how to think about and measure relationships between
content
in different editions.
Bao, P., Hecht, B., Carton, S., Quaderi, M., Horn, M., & Gergle, D.
(2012).
Omnipedia: Bridging the wikipedia language gap. *Proceedings of the
2012
ACM Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems*,
1075–1084.
https://doi.org/10.1145/2208516.2208553
On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 11:00 AM Johan Jönsson < brevlistor@gmail.com >
wrote:
Den fre 18 dec. 2020 kl 16:23 skrev Morten Wang < nettrom@gmail.com >:
Halfaker et al's 2013 paper digs deeply into answering why the
Wikipedia
community started declining in 2007. They find that the quality
assurance
processes that were created to deal with the firehose of content
coming
in
with the exponential growth around 2004–2005 also end up discarding good-faith contributions. This highlights the problem of how to do
quality
assurance while also being a welcoming community to newcomers who
are
struggling to learn all of Wikipedia's various rules and conventions
(see
also the Teahouse paper).
I think we need to start recommending it with a short explanation on current trends and mention that it describes a piece of Wikipedia
history
(where the mechanics behind the trend could still be relevant). You
see the
same curve in a number of other languages (especially languages
mainly
spoken in northern Europe), and like English they've typically
flattened
out, English already around 2014, other number of languages with a
similar
trend around 2018, yet we can still read that the Wikipedia
editorship is
in decline in the present tense in papers and articles on English
Wikipedia
published in 2020, referencing The Rise and Decline.
//Johan Jönsson
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