Hi Everyone,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, January 20,
2016 at 11:30 (PST).
YouTube stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRpUby3MoqU
As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You
can watch our past research showcases here
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#Archive>.
We look forward to seeing you!
Kindly,
Sarah R. Rodlund
Project Coordinator-Engineering, Wikimedia Foundation
srodlund(a)wikimedia.org
This month:
*Anon productivity and productive efficiency in English Wikipedia*
By Aaron Halfaker
Building from a call to action around measuring value-adding behavior
in Wikipedia from Wikimania 2014, I'll show preliminary results of
measuring editor productivity in English Wikipedia. From this analysis some
surprising results have emerged: (1) IP editors contribute about 20% of
good new content to Wikipedia articles, (2) the overall productivity of
registered editors has been holding constant since 2007 -- despite declines
in the community and labor hours invested in editing. (1) suggests that we
should consider better supporting editing without an account and (2)
suggests that Wikipedians are somehow contributing more efficiently than
they used to.
*Cooperation in a Peer Production Economy, Experimental Evidence
from Wikipedia*
By Jérôme Hergueux <http://www.lawecon.ethz.ch/people/hergueux.html>
Relying on the behavior of Wikipedia contributors in a (game-theoretic)
social experiment, I will seek to engage the community in a reflection
about ways to create a more inclusive Wikipedia. First, I will identify the
underlying demographic and social determinants of anti-social behavior
within Wikipedia -- an often cited driver of its declining retention rates.
Second, I will study the relationship between Wikipedia administrators'
trust in anonymous strangers and their policing activity patterns, asking
the question of the optimal level of trust that admins should exhibit in
order to efficiently protect Wikipedia from malicious users while avoiding
to drive well-intentioned ones away from the project.