Hi Jan,
During my PhD, I did some research about how online uses evolve/develop
over time in online communities using topic modeling / clustering. Topic
modeling / mixture models are very powerful tools to learn the hidden
knowledge and structures underlying the data.
These two papers may be what you are looking for:
1. Xiangju Qin, Pádraig Cunningham, Michael Salter-Townshend. “Online
Trans-dimensional Von Mises-Fisher Mixture Models for User Profiles”.
Journal of Machine Learning Research, 17(200): 1-51, 2016.
http://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume17/15-454/source/15-454.pdf
2. Xiangju Qin, Derek Greene, Pádraig Cunningham. “A Latent Space Analysis
of Editor Lifecycles in Wikipedia”. In: M. Atzmueller et al. (eds): MSM,
MUSE, SenseML 2014. LNAI 9546, pp. 46–69, 2016.
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-29009-6_3
A minus point of these two papers is that we didn't consider user activity
in a very specific/niched level that you just described. Yes, considering
user activity in these context would shape more insights about the
potential challenges underlying Wikipedia platform (e.g. lost of different
types of editors, changes in edits to different Wiki pages over time)
Hope this helpful.
Best, Xiangju
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Hello,
I am looking for research on how editors transition through various levels
of involvement in their time as editors. The questions I ask myself are:
- How many people to come each month?
- How many editors leave?
…those are not too difficult to answer but…
- How many people become more involved over time? E.g. How many each month
come to a level where they are interested in handling many pages on the
watchlist, learn the less obvious aspects of wiki culture etc.
In my work as designer I am often involved in features for intermediate
and/or very involved users and I’m wondering if there are any ballpark
estimates of how many people learn these features each month.
Jan
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Hi Jan
Together with other people in my group, we wrote a paper about how
Wikidata editors change their behaviour as they become more experienced.
It might be not precisely what you are looking for, as our study has a
qualitative approach, while it seems that you are looking for something
more quantitative, but you might have a look if you want.
This is the link:
https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/401755/
Please let me know if you have any questions,
Alessandro
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Alessandro Piscopo
Web and Internet Science Group
School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton
email: A.Piscopo@soton.ac.uk<mailto:A.Piscopo@soton.ac.uk>
On 20 Mar 2017, at 09:34, Jan Dittrich <jan.dittrich(a)wikimedia.de<mailtomailto:
jan.dittrich(a)wikimedia.de>> wrote:
Hello,
I am looking for research on how editors transition through various levels
of involvement in their time as editors. The questions I ask myself are:
- How many people to come each month?
- How many editors leave?
…those are not too difficult to answer but…
- How many people become more involved over time? E.g. How many each month
come to a level where they are interested in handling many pages on the
watchlist, learn the less obvious aspects of wiki culture etc.
In my work as designer I am often involved in features for intermediate
and/or very involved users and I’m wondering if there are any ballpark
estimates of how many people learn these features each month.
Jan
--
Jan Dittrich
UX Design/ User Research
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Imagine a world, in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. That‘s our commitment.
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
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der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
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