Removing accounts with low numbers of edits will, of course, blind your analysis to users who use throw-away accounts, even when they can clearly be attributed to the same individual.
cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky
On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 08:42, Kiril Simeonovski kiril.simeonovski@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Stuart,
Yes, all those terms refer to a Wikipedia account. My plan is to avoid sampling accounts with very low activity (probably less then a minimum threshold of edits) because of the impracticality to draw any conclusion from them.
Best, Kiril
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 8:36 PM Stuart A. Yeates syeates@gmail.com wrote:
When you say "participant", "user" and "editor" do you actually mean account?
I routinely notice what appear to be people attending real-file events using one account but then editing afterwards with a different account.
cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky
On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 07:00, Kiril Simeonovski kiril.simeonovski@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I am currently working on a research concerned with modelling user behaviour on Wikipedia. The idea is to design a field experiment over a random sample of Wikipedians in order to examine their risk preferences
and
define (dis)utilities that will be used in a utility-maximisation model.
I have already submitted an abstract that got accepted for the biennial Foundations of Utility and Risk Conference 2020 https://www.furconference.org/
and my
future plans include presentation of the concept at other research conferences (including Wikimania 2020).
You can visit the project page <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Modelling_Behaviour_in_a_Peer_Produ...
of this research on Meta. Your questions and comments are welcome at any time. Thank you!
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