Hello,

to complete what Aaron said, a research I did showed that the creation of new article by a newcomer is a very good predictor that this person will become a regular contributor or more (on French data, but I would be surprised if it was not the case for the English Wikipedia).

Nicolas

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1980806

Le 25/11/2014 16:22, Aaron Halfaker a écrit :

Hi Heather,

I did a bunch of background work on this specifically for a large set of
wikis.  See
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation.

Specifically, check this out:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation#How_many_articles_are_created_by_newcomers.3F

TL;DR: In Enwiki, almost 10% of NS 0 pages are created by newcomers
within 24 hours of registering an account.  The majority of articles
(83.6%) are still created by editors with more than a month of tenure.

-Aaron

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Heather Ford <heather.ford@oii.ox.ac.uk
<mailto:heather.ford@oii.ox.ac.uk>> wrote:

    Hi there,

    I'm thinking there must be research about whether it is new or
    experienced editors who are creating new articles on English
    Wikipedia but I can't seem to find anything.

    Anyone know of anything like this?

    Many thanks!

    Best,
    Heather.

    Heather Ford
    Oxford Internet Institute <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/> Doctoral Programme
    EthnographyMatters <http://ethnographymatters.net/> | Oxford Digital
    Ethnography Group <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/?id=115>
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