I don't personally know of any central repository for data on past
edit-a-thons.
There might be something out there. You could probably get some information
from pinging folks in CE who've worked on Project & Event Grants (Asaf
Bartov, Kacie Harold) or Program Evaluation (Amanda Bittaker, Edward
Galvez), or search through past grant reports... but I'm guessing the data
will be sparse and inconsistent, as it is still collected in a somewhat
ad-hoc fashion.
If WMF were to support the development and maintenance of standardized
infrastructure for edit-a-thon tracking--something like Harsh Kothari and
Jeph Paul's platform for the Indian Wikiwomen edit-a-thons (site
<http://2015.wikiwomen.in/>, code
<https://github.com/cosmiclattes/wikiwomen/tree/master>)--this would be
easier. But AFAIK that hasn't happened. If someone takes up that cause I
will voice my support.
J
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Maximilian Klein <isalix(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Researchians,
I have a been collecting data on the gendered biographies of different
Wikipedia Languages from Wikidata dumps, with the question of trying to
understand the gender gap in content. After reading about Propensity Score
Matching[1] today, I see it would be possible to test a (close to) causal
link between the genders of Wikipedia Biographies being added to a
language, and Editathon activity. Yet we'd need the data for editathon
activity. Is it compiled somewhere, or can you think of how it could be
compiled?
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propensity_score_matching The idea in
propensity score matching is to pretend a randomized experiment is being
conducted, and to find a "control group" - a similar but untreated
language, for each "treated group".
Make a great day,
Max Klein ‽
http://notconfusing.com/
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