Yes, refering to my work as "bullshit" and an "insult [to] our intelligence" is unnecessarily rude.
Even if you disagree, I expect you to be civil about it.
If you dislike my analysis or observations, feel free to do your own. Ideally, Wikimedia would provide their own comprehensive statistics, but their analysis program hasn't been able to run on enwiki for about a year.
However, there is no sampling involved in analyzing Wikipedia's logged actions (i.e. every logged action was used), and these likewise show declines in account creation, article deletions, protections, blocking, etc. You may be entitled to your own interpretation, but you are not entitled to a different set of facts.
-Robert
On 10/10/07, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
Dismissal of your conclusions and evidence is not the same as rudeness. A little faith? Are you kidding me? Broad claims such as the ones you make are not something I take on faith, and in case you've forgotten, AGF doesn't apply to statistical data. You're the only person that I've seen to date suggest that involvement in en-wiki is waning.
On 10/10/07, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
Quit being rude and have a little faith.
I already explained it is a random sample higher up the thread.
-Robert
On 10/10/07, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
My comment on the reliability isn't suggesting that sampling is
completely
unreliable. But sampling with no comment on the selection method? That sounds like bullshit to me, and I'm not going to trust what is quite possibly an unreliable sample of whole. If you want to me to trust
your
stats, you need to provide more info than that.
On 10/10/07, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
If you like thinking about "events", cascading protection led to an
~80%
drop in the protection rate for images. (Though image protection is
only
a few percent of all protections).
-Robert
On 10/10/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/10/2007, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
Here's a couple more events to consider: when was the captcha
for
unregistered edits which add an external link added? how about
the
captcha for new article creation?
It'd be interesting to make up a timeline of all the events we
can
think of which might possibly affect these numbers, and then
attach
them to the chart.
Semiprotection (could go either way); resolution of 550 (probably uptick in blocks *and* editing activity).
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
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