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Fascinating. Thanks for sharing this, Nemo. And for setting those arrogant Stackers straight ;)
For anyone else interested: Nemo was able to answer this question because StackExchange has a Quarry http://quarry.wmflabs.org/-like public query interface of their own. You should go play with it right now: http://data.stackexchange.com/
Jonathan
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Some information at https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/269334/how-many-active-users-contri...
TL;DR: not really, and definitely not StackOverflow alone (~14k). But perhaps the whole StackExchange has more than the English Wikipedia alone.
Nemo
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Joel Spolsky explained his comparison - which was already mentioned on this list (Analytics-l) on September 17 - a bit more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvEAuSHJOBU&t=2216 TLDL: it's indeed about the entire Stack Exchange network vs. the English Wikipedia (i.e. not about the number from Nemo's query), and they chose this metric for the closest possible comparison - but still maintain that posting a question or answer is a larger unit of work than the average WP edit.
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Jonathan Morgan jmorgan@wikimedia.org wrote:
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Fascinating. Thanks for sharing this, Nemo. And for setting those arrogant Stackers straight ;)
For anyone else interested: Nemo was able to answer this question because StackExchange has a Quarry-like public query interface of their own. You should go play with it right now: http://data.stackexchange.com/
Jonathan
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Some information at https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/269334/how-many-active-users-contri...
TL;DR: not really, and definitely not StackOverflow alone (~14k). But perhaps the whole StackExchange has more than the English Wikipedia alone.
Nemo
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This is an interesting video which I look forward to watching in full.
In the followup Q&A around minute 50 Spolsky described his subject as long-tail in contrast to notable content on Wikipedia. Is this a distinction often made in user-generated content research?
Can we, for example, characterize the rules for acceptable material as favoring a long-tail or a fat-front?
I ask because my current work with federated wiki is largely about allowing diverse rules for acceptability.
Best regards -- Ward
On Nov 13, 2015, at 10:27 PM, Tilman Bayer tbayer@wikimedia.org wrote:
Joel Spolsky explained his comparison - which was already mentioned on this list (Analytics-l) on September 17 - a bit more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvEAuSHJOBU&t=2216 TLDL: it's indeed about the entire Stack Exchange network vs. the English Wikipedia (i.e. not about the number from Nemo's query), and they chose this metric for the closest possible comparison - but still maintain that posting a question or answer is a larger unit of work than the average WP edit.
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