Amir, this is a great! suggestion. Configuration is a data source we have
not considered for analysis yet, you have my support but will have to
convince Kevin of the priority / importance.
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Not to my knowledge, I'm afraid. Others may be
aware of research I'm
not, however.
On 8 January 2015 at 04:00, Amir E. Aharoni
<amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Hi,
Is there any research about the influence of autopromote variables on
participation, editor retention, and such things?
I am mainly talking about $wgAutoConfirmAge and $wgAutoConfirmCount.
See the current values at
http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php
These are different in various languages, and they seem rather random to
me.
The idea is supposed to be to prevent vandalism
without hurting wikiness
and
editor retention, but are the current values
based on any analytics?
I went over all the bugs that are mentioned in the file to which I linked
above. All of them say "we had a discussion and we reached a consensus".
I
cannot read all these languages, but my wild
guess is that people just
threw
some numbers around without basing it on
analytics, and voted to accept
them. The discussion in the English Wikipedia[1] is, non-surprisingly,
the
longest (47 A4 pages); I didn't read it all,
but it doesn't seem to be
based
on any metrics either.
Anecdotally, I can recall many more times when I, as a Wikipedian, had to
explain people that they need to do a few more edits to get a permission
to
move pages, than I had to revert bad page moves
by new editors, so there
is
a possibility that the autopromote values are not
actually very good.
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed_Proposal/Poll
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