Hi Piotr,
Stats on the number of new editors, and other metrics like that, are held on the stats site: http://stats.wikimedia.org. Particularly, on http://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/ you will find (under the "community" section" the specifics about that measure.
Philippe
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Piotr Konieczny piokon@post.pl Date: Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:21 PM Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] WMF Staff Introductions. To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Welcome!
I have to say that http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Former_Contributors_Survey_Results of which I've just learned from your post is an excellent piece of research, one that was needed for a very long time.
One question comes to mind: we now, roughly, how many editors we are gaining per months. Are there any estimates on how many we are losing (per month, year, total)? I cannot find such numbers in that survey.
-- Piotr Konieczny
Parul Vora wrote:
Hello everyone,
We (most of the current staff at the Wikimedia Foundation currently engaging in research) had a chance to meet some of you at Wikisym
and
Wikimania this year and thought it would be nice to introduce
ourselves
and say hi to all of you! All of us have joined WMF in the past two years and are working on projects or research questions that may be relevant or of interest to all of you. Also, as far as I know, we
are
all new to this list and will hopefully be talking and collaborating with you more in the future - both here and on the Meta Research
page.
So, in no particular order, some introductions from all of us:
From Nimish <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/
User:Nimish_Gautam>
(ngautam@wikimedia.org): Hi, I'm Nimish Gautam. I started with the foundation in 2009 doing development for the Usability Initiative,
which
focused on new editors. I like analyzing user behavior to figure
out how
people use the tools we give them (turning templates into a
programming
language, who would've guessed?) and spotting trends so we can
improve
those tools to help people accomplish what it is they're trying to
do.
Currently I'm doing qualitative and quantitative research on user behavior for the foundation and its various projects, and very interested in finding ways of chunking all this information
together to
make pretty, compelling, informative resources so people know what's going on in the wikiverse and hopefully want to be a part of it.
From Howie http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff#User_Experience_Programs (hfung@wikimedia.org): Hello! I'm Howie and I'm a Senior Product
Manager
at the Wikimedia Foundation. As a product person, I'd like to work
with
the community towards more data-driven decision making. One area I'm particularly interested in is getting a better understanding of our user's lifecycle with our projects -- how they come to the
projects, how
they start contributing, their experiences as a contributor, why
they
leave, and why they return. I like to use both quantitative and qualitative methods to obtain as complete a picture as we need to
guide
our decisions. On the quantitative side, I'm working on getting
better
web analytics for our projects. I'm also interested in any data
mining
projects along these lines (e.g., contribution behavior, user
lifecycle
patterns, etc.). On the qualitative side, I worked on the "Why
Editors
Leave Wikipedia" survey and would be interested in other qualitative measurements (e.g., interviews, surveys, focus groups). If you're interested in any of the above topics, please drop me a line.
From Amy http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff#Public_Policy_Initiative (aroth@wikimedia.org): Hi, I'm Amy, the Research Analyst for the
Public
Policy Initiative http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_Policy_Initiative. My
task
is to assess the project's impact on: U.S. public policy article quality, public policy categorization, new articles, and new contributors. Through the project I have focused on article quality assessment, and worked with the community to add a quantitative
value to
the current article assessment <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Poli... . As a data analyst, I am interested in improving data accessibility
from
Wikipedia. In my dreams, I envision data from the assessment tools
that
exist within Wikipedia are captured in a real-time database, so
that we
can observe what is currently happening in Wikipedia and how it is evolving in the present, rather than having to use data dumps to get snapshots of the state of Wikipedia. I have experience analyzing and designing surveys and would like to use that experience to take a
more
in depth look at contributor demographics and motivations. I am
excited
to be a part of this huge collaborative project with a mission to
make
knowledge accessible.
From me, Parul Vora
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Parulvora (pvora@wikimedia.org): Hi Everyone! I'm a researcher and designer
with a
focus on participatory and collaborative spaces. I started at the Wikimedia Foundation in 2009 and moving forward have interest in: creating new forms of participation (beyond editing) on the projects that better engage a wider audience with the content and each other; assessing, evaluating and addressing the demographic and cultural
biases
in our projects; and exploring location, culture and language as
they
affect the development patterns of different language Wikipedias
in an
effort to identify potential for experimentation and catalysis in younger projects. I'm currently exploring the potential effect
feedback
systems (article ratings, expert reviews, visualizations of an
article's
history or a user's contributions) can have on the engagement of readers, actions of editors, and the quality of content over time. I like infovis, ux research, and unresearched innovation and I am interested in learning more about research with wikipedia on
motivation,
behavioral economic modeling and/or game theory, using geolocative
data,
mobile experiences, and profiling and trend
visualizations......and your
work too!
Let us know if you're interested in learning more, participating
in, or
contributing to our efforts. And drop any of us a line if we could
learn
from or contribute to what you've been working on.......
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Glad you found the Former Contributors Survey helpful. I hope we can do more analysis like this in the future.
While we do capture the number of new editors a project gets per month, we don't have a good figure for the the number that leave. To get a somewhat accurate number requires a bit of calculation. I have some ideas, but if anyone wants to help with this analysis, please let me know. Right now, I'm very interested in looking at this issue (which I'm calling "churn").
Another piece of analysis I'd like to do is to age the user base for some of the largest projects (e.g., of all active English Wikipedians that contributed in 2009, what % started 2009, 2008, 2007, etc.). My hope is that having this figure will give us a better sense of our editor composition. This could help inform a lot of things, one of which is to help us establish leading indicators for future editor trends. As an FYI, User: WereSpielChequers is also doing similar analysis on admins for those who are interested.
Howie
On 8/10/10 12:11 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
Hi Piotr,
Stats on the number of new editors, and other metrics like that, are held on the stats site: http://stats.wikimedia.org. Particularly, on http://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/ you will find (under the "community" section" the specifics about that measure.
Philippe
Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation
philippe@wikimedia.org mailto:philippe@wikimedia.org
Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Piotr Konieczny* <piokon@post.pl mailto:piokon@post.pl> Date: Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:21 PM Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] WMF Staff Introductions. To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org mailto:wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Welcome!
I have to say that http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Former_Contributors_Survey_Results of which I've just learned from your post is an excellent piece of research, one that was needed for a very long time.
One question comes to mind: we now, roughly, how many editors we are gaining per months. Are there any estimates on how many we are losing (per month, year, total)? I cannot find such numbers in that survey.
-- Piotr Konieczny
Parul Vora wrote:
Hello everyone,
We (most of the current staff at the Wikimedia Foundation currently engaging in research) had a chance to meet some of you at Wikisym and Wikimania this year and thought it would be nice to introduce ourselves and say hi to all of you! All of us have joined WMF in the past two years and are working on projects or research questions that may be relevant or of interest to all of you. Also, as far as I know, we are all new to this list and will hopefully be talking and collaborating with you more in the future - both here and on the Meta Research page.
So, in no particular order, some introductions from all of us:
From Nimish http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Nimish_Gautam (ngautam@wikimedia.org mailto:ngautam@wikimedia.org): Hi, I'm
Nimish Gautam. I started with the
foundation in 2009 doing development for the Usability Initiative,
which
focused on new editors. I like analyzing user behavior to figure
out how
people use the tools we give them (turning templates into a programming language, who would've guessed?) and spotting trends so we can improve those tools to help people accomplish what it is they're trying to do. Currently I'm doing qualitative and quantitative research on user behavior for the foundation and its various projects, and very interested in finding ways of chunking all this information together to make pretty, compelling, informative resources so people know what's going on in the wikiverse and hopefully want to be a part of it.
From Howie http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff#User_Experience_Programs (hfung@wikimedia.org mailto:hfung@wikimedia.org): Hello! I'm
Howie and I'm a Senior Product Manager
at the Wikimedia Foundation. As a product person, I'd like to work with the community towards more data-driven decision making. One area I'm particularly interested in is getting a better understanding of our user's lifecycle with our projects -- how they come to the
projects, how
they start contributing, their experiences as a contributor, why they leave, and why they return. I like to use both quantitative and qualitative methods to obtain as complete a picture as we need to guide our decisions. On the quantitative side, I'm working on getting better web analytics for our projects. I'm also interested in any data mining projects along these lines (e.g., contribution behavior, user lifecycle patterns, etc.). On the qualitative side, I worked on the "Why Editors Leave Wikipedia" survey and would be interested in other qualitative measurements (e.g., interviews, surveys, focus groups). If you're interested in any of the above topics, please drop me a line.
From Amy http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff#Public_Policy_Initiative (aroth@wikimedia.org mailto:aroth@wikimedia.org): Hi, I'm Amy,
the Research Analyst for the Public
Policy Initiative http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_Policy_Initiative. My task is to assess the project's impact on: U.S. public policy article quality, public policy categorization, new articles, and new contributors. Through the project I have focused on article quality assessment, and worked with the community to add a quantitative
value to
the current article assessment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Policy/Quality_rating#Rubric.
As a data analyst, I am interested in improving data accessibility from Wikipedia. In my dreams, I envision data from the assessment tools that exist within Wikipedia are captured in a real-time database, so that we can observe what is currently happening in Wikipedia and how it is evolving in the present, rather than having to use data dumps to get snapshots of the state of Wikipedia. I have experience analyzing and designing surveys and would like to use that experience to take a more in depth look at contributor demographics and motivations. I am excited to be a part of this huge collaborative project with a mission to make knowledge accessible.
From me, Parul Vora
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Parulvora (pvora@wikimedia.org mailto:pvora@wikimedia.org): Hi Everyone!
I'm a researcher and designer with a
focus on participatory and collaborative spaces. I started at the Wikimedia Foundation in 2009 and moving forward have interest in: creating new forms of participation (beyond editing) on the projects that better engage a wider audience with the content and each other; assessing, evaluating and addressing the demographic and cultural
biases
in our projects; and exploring location, culture and language as they affect the development patterns of different language Wikipedias in an effort to identify potential for experimentation and catalysis in younger projects. I'm currently exploring the potential effect feedback systems (article ratings, expert reviews, visualizations of an
article's
history or a user's contributions) can have on the engagement of readers, actions of editors, and the quality of content over time. I like infovis, ux research, and unresearched innovation and I am interested in learning more about research with wikipedia on
motivation,
behavioral economic modeling and/or game theory, using geolocative
data,
mobile experiences, and profiling and trend visualizations......and
your
work too!
Let us know if you're interested in learning more, participating in, or contributing to our efforts. And drop any of us a line if we could
learn
from or contribute to what you've been working on.......
Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org mailto:Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
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Hoi, Sadly the reportcard figures do not provide any data on Polish (and most other languages) Try this page in stead. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediansEditsGt5.htm
You will find that Indonesian for instance more then doubled the number of contributors. For Polish there are 333 less contributors compared to last year.. On the rightr hand side is a 3% negative annual growth. there are many different reports that you can choose from... Believe you me, you will be spoiled for choice. Getting to grips with them, getting a feeling of where we are going is a challenge :) Thanks, GerardM
On 10 August 2010 21:11, Philippe Beaudette pbeaudette@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hi Piotr,
Stats on the number of new editors, and other metrics like that, are held on the stats site: http://stats.wikimedia.org. Particularly, on http://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/ you will find (under the "community" section" the specifics about that measure.
Philippe
Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation
philippe@wikimedia.org
Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Piotr Konieczny piokon@post.pl Date: Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:21 PM Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] WMF Staff Introductions. To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities < wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Welcome!
I have to say that http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Former_Contributors_Survey_Results of which I've just learned from your post is an excellent piece of research, one that was needed for a very long time.
One question comes to mind: we now, roughly, how many editors we are gaining per months. Are there any estimates on how many we are losing (per month, year, total)? I cannot find such numbers in that survey.
-- Piotr Konieczny
Parul Vora wrote:
Hello everyone,
We (most of the current staff at the Wikimedia Foundation currently engaging in research) had a chance to meet some of you at Wikisym and Wikimania this year and thought it would be nice to introduce ourselves and say hi to all of you! All of us have joined WMF in the past two years and are working on projects or research questions that may be relevant or of interest to all of you. Also, as far as I know, we are all new to this list and will hopefully be talking and collaborating with you more in the future - both here and on the Meta Research page.
So, in no particular order, some introductions from all of us:
From Nimish http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Nimish_Gautam (ngautam@wikimedia.org): Hi, I'm Nimish Gautam. I started with the foundation in 2009 doing development for the Usability Initiative, which focused on new editors. I like analyzing user behavior to figure out how people use the tools we give them (turning templates into a programming language, who would've guessed?) and spotting trends so we can improve those tools to help people accomplish what it is they're trying to do. Currently I'm doing qualitative and quantitative research on user behavior for the foundation and its various projects, and very interested in finding ways of chunking all this information together to make pretty, compelling, informative resources so people know what's going on in the wikiverse and hopefully want to be a part of it.
From Howie http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff#User_Experience_Programs (hfung@wikimedia.org): Hello! I'm Howie and I'm a Senior Product
Manager
at the Wikimedia Foundation. As a product person, I'd like to work with the community towards more data-driven decision making. One area I'm particularly interested in is getting a better understanding of our user's lifecycle with our projects -- how they come to the projects, how they start contributing, their experiences as a contributor, why they leave, and why they return. I like to use both quantitative and qualitative methods to obtain as complete a picture as we need to guide our decisions. On the quantitative side, I'm working on getting better web analytics for our projects. I'm also interested in any data mining projects along these lines (e.g., contribution behavior, user lifecycle patterns, etc.). On the qualitative side, I worked on the "Why Editors Leave Wikipedia" survey and would be interested in other qualitative measurements (e.g., interviews, surveys, focus groups). If you're interested in any of the above topics, please drop me a line.
From Amy http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff#Public_Policy_Initiative (aroth@wikimedia.org): Hi, I'm Amy, the Research Analyst for the Public Policy Initiative http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_Policy_Initiative. My task is to assess the project's impact on: U.S. public policy article quality, public policy categorization, new articles, and new contributors. Through the project I have focused on article quality assessment, and worked with the community to add a quantitative value to the current article assessment <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Poli...
. As a data analyst, I am interested in improving data accessibility from Wikipedia. In my dreams, I envision data from the assessment tools that exist within Wikipedia are captured in a real-time database, so that we can observe what is currently happening in Wikipedia and how it is evolving in the present, rather than having to use data dumps to get snapshots of the state of Wikipedia. I have experience analyzing and designing surveys and would like to use that experience to take a more in depth look at contributor demographics and motivations. I am excited to be a part of this huge collaborative project with a mission to make knowledge accessible.
From me, Parul Vora
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Parulvora (pvora@wikimedia.org): Hi Everyone! I'm a researcher and designer with a focus on participatory and collaborative spaces. I started at the Wikimedia Foundation in 2009 and moving forward have interest in: creating new forms of participation (beyond editing) on the projects that better engage a wider audience with the content and each other; assessing, evaluating and addressing the demographic and cultural biases in our projects; and exploring location, culture and language as they affect the development patterns of different language Wikipedias in an effort to identify potential for experimentation and catalysis in younger projects. I'm currently exploring the potential effect feedback systems (article ratings, expert reviews, visualizations of an article's history or a user's contributions) can have on the engagement of readers, actions of editors, and the quality of content over time. I like infovis, ux research, and unresearched innovation and I am interested in learning more about research with wikipedia on motivation, behavioral economic modeling and/or game theory, using geolocative data, mobile experiences, and profiling and trend visualizations......and your work too!
Let us know if you're interested in learning more, participating in, or contributing to our efforts. And drop any of us a line if we could learn from or contribute to what you've been working on.......
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