Hi all,
I'm Steven Walling, a longtime Wikimedia volunteer. Damian Finol (also a longtime volunteer) and I are working on the beginnings of a new research project in cooperation with the Foundation's Community Department.
Everyone knows that editors are publicly listed based on edit count, and some other details are visible related to the type of contributions an individual user makes.
The goal of this project is to try and highlight highly active volunteers who may not participate in tasks that produce a high edit count. By creating a detailed taxonomy of sorts for all the different roles users can take in a project, we hope to get a better picture of who the most active contributors are and what they are doing.
If anyone has done similar roles-based investigations into volunteer participation or has any suggestions at all, please feel free to contact us at feedback@wikimedia.org.ve or via the project's page on Meta at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Contribution_Taxonomy_Project
Thanks,
Steven Walling http://enwp.org/User:Steven_Walling
Hi Steven,
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
The goal of this project is to try and highlight highly active volunteers who may not participate in tasks that produce a high edit count. By creating a detailed taxonomy of sorts for all the different roles users can take in a project, we hope to get a better picture of who the most active contributors are and what they are doing. If anyone has done similar roles-based investigations into volunteer participation or has any suggestions at all, please feel free to contact us at feedback@wikimedia.org.ve or via the project's page on Meta at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Contribution_Taxonomy_Project
I love the project name and your early mindmap. I left some comments there.
-- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj
Hi;
It is an interesting topic, but also, I think that a difficult one. It is said that editcount is not the real value of an user. It is correct, but, how do you compare the value of different actions like editing a page, fixing a typo, adding a paragraph, converting a png diagram to svg, taking a pic, developing a bot, ect? There is no a comparison table.
I can help with the tech side of this task, if help is needed.
Regards, emijrp
2010/8/12 Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com
Hi all,
I'm Steven Walling, a longtime Wikimedia volunteer. Damian Finol (also a longtime volunteer) and I are working on the beginnings of a new research project in cooperation with the Foundation's Community Department.
Everyone knows that editors are publicly listed based on edit count, and some other details are visible related to the type of contributions an individual user makes.
The goal of this project is to try and highlight highly active volunteers who may not participate in tasks that produce a high edit count. By creating a detailed taxonomy of sorts for all the different roles users can take in a project, we hope to get a better picture of who the most active contributors are and what they are doing.
If anyone has done similar roles-based investigations into volunteer participation or has any suggestions at all, please feel free to contact us at feedback@wikimedia.org.ve or via the project's page on Meta at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Contribution_Taxonomy_Project
Thanks,
Steven Walling http://enwp.org/User:Steven_Walling
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Thanks for the feedback and resources all. Links to relevant research and suggestions for editing the draft taxonomy have both been extremely helpful.
To answer emijrp:
While we are interested in getting a better picture of who the most active Wikimedians are using these metrics, we don't see the results being something like say, the current lists of Wikimedians by number of edits.
At this point we haven't considered there to be a need to rank or weigh different activities to different degrees. We simply want to make sure that we can get a more comprehensive map of the roles volunteers can take.
Steven Walling
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:18 AM, emijrp emijrp@gmail.com wrote:
Hi;
It is an interesting topic, but also, I think that a difficult one. It is said that editcount is not the real value of an user. It is correct, but, how do you compare the value of different actions like editing a page, fixing a typo, adding a paragraph, converting a png diagram to svg, taking a pic, developing a bot, ect? There is no a comparison table.
I can help with the tech side of this task, if help is needed.
Regards, emijrp
2010/8/12 Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com
Hi all,
I'm Steven Walling, a longtime Wikimedia volunteer. Damian Finol (also a longtime volunteer) and I are working on the beginnings of a new research project in cooperation with the Foundation's Community Department.
Everyone knows that editors are publicly listed based on edit count, and some other details are visible related to the type of contributions an individual user makes.
The goal of this project is to try and highlight highly active volunteers who may not participate in tasks that produce a high edit count. By creating a detailed taxonomy of sorts for all the different roles users can take in a project, we hope to get a better picture of who the most active contributors are and what they are doing.
If anyone has done similar roles-based investigations into volunteer participation or has any suggestions at all, please feel free to contact us at feedback@wikimedia.org.ve or via the project's page on Meta at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Contribution_Taxonomy_Project
Thanks,
Steven Walling http://enwp.org/User:Steven_Walling
Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
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