Thanks for the feedback and resources all. Links to relevant research and suggestions for editing the draft taxonomy have both been extremely helpful.<div><br></div><div>To answer emijrp:</div><div><br></div><div>While we are interested in getting a better picture of who the most active Wikimedians are using these metrics, we don&#39;t see the results being something like say, the current lists of Wikimedians by number of edits. </div>

<div><br></div><div>At this point we haven&#39;t considered there to be a need to rank or weigh different activities to different degrees. We simply want to make sure that we can get a more comprehensive map of the roles volunteers can take.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Steven Walling<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:18 AM, emijrp <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:emijrp@gmail.com">emijrp@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

Hi;<br><br>It is an interesting topic, but also, I think that a difficult one. It is said that editcount is not the real value of an user. It is correct, but, how do you compare the value of different actions like editing a page, fixing a typo, adding a paragraph, converting a png diagram to svg, taking a pic, developing a bot, ect? There is no a comparison table.<br>



<br>I can help with the tech side of this task, if help is needed.<br><br>Regards,<br>emijrp<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/8/12 Steven Walling <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:steven.walling@gmail.com" target="_blank">steven.walling@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br>



<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div class="h5">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I&#39;m Steven Walling, a longtime Wikimedia volunteer. Damian Finol (also a longtime volunteer) and I are working on the beginnings of a new research project in cooperation with the Foundation&#39;s Community Department. </div>





<div><br></div><div>Everyone knows that editors are publicly listed based on edit count, and some other details are visible related to the type of contributions an individual user makes. </div><div><br></div><div>The goal of this project is to try and highlight highly active volunteers who may not participate in tasks that produce a high edit count. By creating a detailed taxonomy of sorts for all the different roles users can take in a project, we hope to get a better picture of who the most active contributors are and what they are doing. </div>





<div><br></div><div>If anyone has done similar roles-based investigations into volunteer participation or has any suggestions at all, please feel free to contact us at <a href="mailto:feedback@wikimedia.org.ve" target="_blank">feedback@wikimedia.org.ve</a> or via the project&#39;s page on Meta at <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Contribution_Taxonomy_Project" target="_blank">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Contribution_Taxonomy_Project</a></div>





<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Steven Walling</div><div><a href="http://enwp.org/User:Steven_Walling" target="_blank">http://enwp.org/User:Steven_Walling</a></div>
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