Thank you Luca! Unfortunately I do not have programming skills. I am looking for research results or data already available on these questions to make a reference in my research writing. Thanks again. Have a nice day, Mayo
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Research Digital Commons Governance: http://www.onlinecreation.info
European University Institute - Phd Candidate
School of information Berkeley Visiting researcher
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De: wiki-research-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org en nom de Luca de Alfaro
Enviat el: dg. 11/04/2010 23:14
Per a: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
Tema: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Help to solve three doubts on Wikipediaresearch data
Hi Mayo,
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Fuster, Mayo <Mayo.Fuster@eui.eu> wrote:
> Hi everybody!
>
> How are you? I hope happy and fine. I am Mayo Fuster Morell doing a Phd
> research on Wikipedia governance at the European University Institute.
>
> I would appreciate if you could help me with three specific doubts that I
> have on Wikipedia data.
>
> * Is there data or research results on number of users per article? Plus,
> what is the more frequent number of users per article? Or, what is the
> distribution of number of editors/article?
>
> I was about to say that this can be derived easily from an analysis of the
revisions database table, but then I noticed that no dump of this table in
isolation is available from download.wikimedia.org...
You can however access all this data by using the Wikipedia API (
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API) but it requires some programming.
> * Is there data on gender distribution? I know there is the general survey
> (which say 12.83% women are contributors) and Ortega works. Is there any
> other data on gender distribution?.
>
> * Does the site learn from the navigation and searches? That is, if a
> Wikipedia visitor who reads a Network entry then goes to the Manuel Castells
> entry, Will the system understand there is a connexion between them? Will
> next time put them together when presenting search results?
>
> Any suggestion to solve these doubts is very welcome! Looking forward for
> Wikimania! Mayo
>
> «·´`·.(*·.¸(`·.¸ ¸.·´)¸.·*).·´`·»
> «·´¨*·¸¸« Mayo Fuster Morell ».¸.·*¨`·»
> «·´`·.(¸.·´(¸.·* *·.¸)`·.¸).·´`·»
>
> Research Digital Commons Governance: http://www.onlinecreation.info
> European University Institute - Phd Candidate
> School of information Berkeley Visiting researcher
> Phone Italy: 0039-3345440747 or 0039-0558409982
> Phone Spanish State: 0034-648877748
> E-mail: mayo.fuster@eui.eu
> Skype: mayoneti
> Identi.ca: Mayo
> Postal address: Badia Fiesolana - Via dei Roccettini 9, I-50014 San
> Domenico di Fiesole (FI) - Italy
> Fax [+39] 055 4685 201
>
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