Thanks indeed Nemo -- Anybody have any contacts there we could talk to?
-Toby
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Jonathan Morgan <jmorgan(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
*"We don’t want our best contributors feeling like the most important
contribution they can make is to find stuff to get rid of - and more
importantly, we want to avoid deterring people from joining the community
and participating by being over-protective of what we want the site to look
like. Narrow interpretation of the scope with rigid enforcement hasn’t
slowed the volume of poor quality questions, but it has given Server Fault
a rather hostile and insular reputation and a tendency to give a poor first
impression."*
The parallels to English Wikipedia are startling. But the data shared here
don't say much to support the Facebook Ate My Online Community argument.
Shane Madden's thesis is that community dynamics, not social media
overload, are the primary culprit.
Recommended reading for the whole research-l list. Thanks for sharing
this, Nemo.
- Jonathan
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 3:21 AM, Ed Summers <ehs(a)pobox.com> wrote:
That’s really interesting. One could speculate
that there is a general
fall off in interactivity on other sites as social media behemoth’s like
Facebook soak up user attention. I know Matt Haughey has written about the
fall off in site visits to Metafilter [1], which he has attributed to
changes in Google’s relevancy ranking. I wonder if folks at Metafilter
would be willing to look at user engagement over time in relation to
Wikipedia’s stats?
//Ed
[1]
https://medium.com/technology-musings/on-the-future-of-metafilter-941d15ec9…
On Dec 11, 2014, at 4:57 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Curious discussion about an editor/activity decline at serverfault:
http://meta.serverfault.com/questions/6701/server-fault-needs-professional-…
Feels a lot like 2009 discussions about Wikipedia
in 2007/2008:
ballooning visits, editors focusing on rollback, sadness spreading,
less
work getting done.
It seems however that every community and research about community is
going
through the same issues and errors? Someone please give them pointers
to useful research, or something. :)
Nemo
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