--- El dom, 8/11/09, Piotr Konieczny piokon@post.pl escribió:
De: Piotr Konieczny piokon@post.pl Asunto: Re: [Wiki-research-l] How many contributions are unproductive? Para: "Research into Wikimedia content and communities" wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org Fecha: domingo, 8 de noviembre, 2009 20:39
While the definition and discussion of "(un)productivity" are fascinating, what about a simpler question:
How many editors are active?
A major issue is to decide on a time frame. Do we mean activity within 1 hour? 1 day? 1 week? 1 month?
Or those with appropriate capabilities could just run a database dump analysis for historical patterns (I am sure it was done in the past, but the advantage of a real time monitoring tool versus results in published work (usually older than a year) should be pretty obvious).
Some results from the time I run this tool in July are reported here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:EDITORS#Demographics
But it would be nice to have better numbers.
My apologies for self-promotion.
On my dissertation you can find a survival analysis for the top 10 language versions answering that question with a formal statistical approach.
http://libresoft.es/Members/jfelipe/thesis-wkp-quantanalysis
For updated numbers, we are waiting to publish new work but, in the mean time, suffice to say that all Wikipedias are losing contributors rapidly. For example, EN Wikipedia is losing "active editors" at a rate of about 15.000 contributors per month (I presented the graphs on the last WikiSym for the first time).
All the same, in my opinion these are 2 very different questions. This one has to do with community size and editorial effort. Joseph's question is related to the "acceptance" of contributions.
Best, F --
-- Piotr Konieczny
"The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in reality, not in theory."
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