It was a difficult issue.
We finally decided to filtered out all annonymous users, consistently,
in all our studies (and also in the results I will present
in my Ph.D. thesis).
NAT and proxies prevent us to trace down individual users
correctly, since the database only stores de IP address, and
many "real" users may be hidden behind the same IP.
The problem may be the same for logged users (one real user
with multiple accounts) but this is less common, and even
discouraged due to possible suspicious behaviors:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sock_puppetry
Cheers,
F.
--- El lun, 17/11/08, Desilets, Alain <Alain.Desilets(a)nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> escribió:
De: Desilets, Alain
<Alain.Desilets(a)nrc-cnrc.gc.ca>
Asunto: RE: [Wiki-research-l] "Regular contributor"
Para: glimmer_phoenix(a)yahoo.es, "Research into Wikimedia content and
communities" <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Fecha: lunes, 17 noviembre, 2008 4:14
> Interesting. So, in summary:
>
> - Most edits done by a small core
> - But, most of the text created by the long tail
> - However, most of the text that people actually
read, was created
by
> the small core
>
> Is that a good summary of what we know about this
question?
BTW, what is the status of anonymous edits in those
studies?
Are anonymous edits excluded from these studies altogether?
If they are included, is anonymous treated as a single
highly productive
"user", or is it treated as being part of the
long tail?
Alain