Pine and Stuart,
I meant extracting a random sample of new editors (month by month) from Wikipedia edit
history.
It is not about survey of new editors, but still thanks for your suggestions.
Thanks,
Haifeng Zhang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
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There are a number of new-editor-heavy noticeboards. I would suggest
posting an invite there to your survey (or whatever) If you ask for
editor's usernames you can filter out those who don't meet your
definition of 'new'
I'm thinking of places like:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk
cheers
stuart
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On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 08:37, Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Pine,
Haifeng has a simple question about how to sample editors other than
via dumps. It would be great if someone who knows the answer to help
them to move forward.
If you are interested to learn more about their research, instead of
answering their question, my recommendation would be to start the
conversation with: "can you tell us more about your research?" kind of
question. I find the current way of communication very speculative,
and that is not good for making a vibrant research community that can
help us address some of our big questions.
Best,
Leila
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 12:08 PM Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, can you expand on what you mean by "sample"? If you're referring to
analyzing users' edit histories then that should be fine. However, if
you're planning to send surveys or messages to them, sending them
barnstars, or otherwise manipulating their on-wiki experience, that would
be problematic.
Pine
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 6:19 PM Haifeng Zhang <haifeng1(a)andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:
Hi folks,
My work needs to randomly sample new editors in each month, e.g., 100
editors per month.
Do any of you have good suggestions for how to do this efficiently?
I could think of using the dump files, but wonder are there other options?
Thanks,
Haifeng Zhang
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