[Foundation-l] Wikipedia: A quantity analysis

[Felipe Ortega]

Hello. 
I'm Felipe Ortega, the URJC researcher author of this thesis.

Thank you for pointing this out, though I believe that I already CC the Foundation mailing list some months ago, immediately after the manuscript was published in our website.

I would like to take this opportunity to comment the very important coverage that the results of the thesis has got from Spanish national mass media this week. Last Wed., URJC published an official press release about it:

http://www.urjc.es/z_files/ai_noti/ai05/noticia_completa.php?ID=1034 

Just a few hours later, the main Spanish national newspapers followed on
the news:

"ABC"

http://www.abc.es/20090709/medios-redes-web/wikipedia-estanca-caida-numero-200907091136.html 

"El Mundo" (featured in main page http://elmundo.es, as of Thu. July 9)

http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2009/07/09/navegante/1247132861.html

"El País" (also in main page, technology section, as of Thu. July 9)

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/tecnologia/Wikipedia/pierde/editores/elpeputec/20090709elpeputec_1/Tes

As well, it has been published in Europa Press, EFE news, and other
major national news agencies. According to Google, right now we're being reported on more than 30 different news sites :).

Yesterday, Fri. 10, it also received coverage by some important radio stations (Onda Madrid, Punto Radio) in Madrid region, as well as by national radio broadcasting consortium Cadena Ser, at national level, on the night of Thu. 9 (Hora 25, prime time news program). Some of these included live interviews to stand out the main results.

Finally, I would really like to remark that, despite the obvious trend of some journalist to seek for a sensationalist headline like "could it be the end of Wikipedia?", I have tried as much as I could to explicitly avoid this, and just told about Wikipedia "reaching a new stabilized stage in both the number of active editors and number of revisions per month" [...] "the main cause could be that the project is losing, each month, more authors than the number of new contributors that arrive to help for the first time".

In fact, we would like to keep on working, with the help of other academic institutions, researchers and support from the community, to better understand the content creation process in Wikipedia, specially as for the improvement of quality, and to find better strategies to retain editors for longer periods of time.

All the best,

Felipe.

--- El jue, 9/7/09, Crazy Lover <always_yours.forever at yahoo.com> escribió:

> De: Crazy Lover <always_yours.forever at yahoo.com>
> Asunto: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia: A quantity analysis
> Para: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Fecha: jueves, 9 julio, 2009 8:39
> Below it is a Doctoral Thesis that
> analize quantitatively the evolution of top ten Wikipedias,
> an their problems (in English): 
> 
> http://libresoft.es/Members/jfelipe/thesis-wkp-quantanalysis
> 
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