On 3/1/07, Jossi Fresco jossifresco@mac.com wrote:
On Feb 27, 2007, at 11:17 PM, Rich Holton wrote:
I assume that these others were watching recent changes, or had the page on their watchlist and their attention was drawn by my edit (as Adam recounts, above).
That happens to me quite often as well. An article in my watchlist that did not showed up there for months, suddenly lights up, I check the edit, add a new tidbit, a new source perhaps. Tthat attracts a few edits from other editors, only to disappear for a few months and so on...
This brings up an interesting statistical analysis problem - Do the database exports include any user info, such as userid/name and user watchlists? Is it possible to look at this factor in a public database export, or would someone have to do statistics analysis on one of the WMF MySQL mirrors?