Please also note the exclusion criteria that Zhu et al used (not counting people that edit in 10 communities or more at the same time). I'm not exactly sure how that works out in practice, but this should take care of some obvious edits you want to avoid in Wikimedia at least: (interwiki) bots, stewards, global admins etc. You may also want to consider checking for vandalism (are the edits later reverted) and not include those in your measure.
Best, Lodewijk
On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 11:53 AM ABEL SERRANO JUSTE abeserra@ucm.es wrote:
Thank you for your answers. It's worth noting that we are using the Wikia dataset too and that we are trying to identify when we consider a wiki "death" or "inactive". We are looking for a rule that should be as much as independant as possible of the topic, stage or size of the wiki. Indeed, we could say as well that we are interested in when the wiki community dies and isolate from any external relation (like, for instance, if it's a wiki around a TV serie that nowadays it's been nowadays, we don't care about that external fact, but whether the wiki is still active or not)
On Mon, Nov 5, 2018, 8:37 PM Jeremy Foote jdfoote1@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Abel,
We have been working on a paper that looks at wiki survival on Wikia. We ended up using a similar measure to Zhu et al. We are more interested in when the community around a wiki "dies", and so we measure death as a 30-day period in which fewer than two people edit the wiki. I think that the generalization of this idea is to look for the first period of X days in which N or fewer people make an edit, where X and N might change depending on the question your are looking at (or might be informed by
the
data).
Best, Jeremy
On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 11:35 AM Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello,
Interesting mail - at the moment I am busy with thinking about chronological aspects of a wiki. One idea is that a wiki can have a finality, that means, that the founders had only a limited goal in
mind.
If accomplished, the wiki is no longer needed. There is a paper about open source software that you might already
know?
(Schweik 2014)
Kind regards Ziko
Am Mo., 5. Nov. 2018 um 14:44 Uhr schrieb ABEL SERRANO JUSTE < abeserra@ucm.es>:
Hello fellow researchers!
We are conducting a research about "mortality in wikis" and we are
looking
for a good definition to determine when a wiki is considered "death", "inactive" or "abandoned".
So far, I've only found this definition from Haiyi Zhu, Robert E.
Kraut
and
Aniket Kittur in their paper: "The impact of membership overlap on
the
survival of online communities" https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2556288.2557213. We define a community to be dormant (the inverse of active) in a
given
month if the community did not have any activity (including
discussion
pages and community pages) in the given month and the preceding two
months.
Any other references you could point me out? any better ideas?
Thank you in advance!
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