Hello,
As far as it is about me, I can say that I left wikimedia-l twice or three times. I left mainly because of the high amount of mails, also often not very useful mails, "witty" remarks in 1-2 lines for example.
But I think that this is a good example for a quantitative research that should later lead you to a qualitative look. And maybe it is indeed an indicator for something. In systems theory, one might think that the social system shows an internal differentiation so that people go to more specialized lists.
Isnt't there literature about the traffic on mailing lists?
Kind regards, Ziko
2015-06-05 3:27 GMT+02:00 Stuart A. Yeates syeates@gmail.com:
Here's a list of possible metrics that we could use for measuring community health.
That's a great list, with some great metrics. I'd be included to add some silo-breaking metrics which measure activity across projects or across silos within projects:
- Number of editors with actions/edits on more than N wikis (N=2, N=3, etc)
- Number of editors with actions/edits on more than N namespaces on the same
wiki (N=2, N=3, etc) ...
cheers stuart
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