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 (
)." 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(a)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(a)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(a)gmail.com >
wrote:
>
>> Den fre 18 dec. 2020 kl 16:23 skrev Morten Wang < nettrom(a)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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