On 8/27/06, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Seriously, though, I'm still looking for a response on my request for details when you said "analysis has been done, results will be published" regarding the initial disabling of anon page creation. Who did the analysis? Or did you answer in a different thread that I haven't been reading? I know I'm being a hardass about this, but so far this has been the only lead I'm aware of indicating that any such analysis might actually be taking place.
I'd lost that thread, which is why I hadn't replied.
It's not really my place to talk about papers being written by others, which is why I hadn't answered in more detail.
You're not being a hardass... I'm just not the right person to ask, the only research I've done is informal subjective measurements (which I posted about months ago), I've also posted the link to the new articles over time which was a part of that informal research.
[[NBER]] presented at Wikimania about their statistical research into Wikipedia editing, and I have worked with them some to help with collecting data for their work. One of the researchers working on the subject is currently off the net, but I'll ping the other person (Eric Garrison) and find out what the status of his research is...
I found it amusing that everyone in the thread has assumed that I'm arguing against turning back on anon page creation, because that is certantly not my position. I've only argued that we shouldn't act without evidence when evidence is so easy to obtain.
If you don't believe me that people are working on this, feel free to do your own research it's not like you need anyone's permission. If you need help getting data in a convenient form and can clearly articulate what data you need, please contact me... I'll be glad to help.