[Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

[Felipe Ortega]

--- El sáb, 25/7/09, John at Darkstar <vacuum at jeb.no> escribió:

> De: John at Darkstar <vacuum at jeb.no>
> Asunto: Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics
> Para: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Fecha: sábado, 25 julio, 2009 3:47
> I asked a source if they may grant us
> access to some statistics on users
> behaviour within social media. The time series starts well
> before Nupedia.
> 

That would be great, John. 

Though Wikipedia peculiarities should be taken into account, long time series would allow interesting comparisons. In particular, about the future trends that we may expect to find in the future, from patterns already observed in other scenarios with a wider timespan.

Best,
Felipe.

> John
> 
> Felipe Ortega wrote:
> > --- El vie, 24/7/09, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>
> escribió:
> > 
> >> De: Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>
> >> Asunto: Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics
> >> Para: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> >> Fecha: viernes, 24 julio, 2009 5:25
> > 
> >> Whatever means in the official statistics. It
> would be good
> >> to have numbers about newcomers and those who made
> 10 or 100 edits,
> >> so we may compare how do we attract attention
> through the time.
> >> However, I think that those numbers are relatively
> stable in the past   > couple of years
> (let's say, from 2005 or so).
> >>
> > 
> > You can check more precise figures and graphs in my
> thesis about general statistics for survivability for all
> logged editors and core editors (the top 10% most active
> editors in each month), from the beginning until Dec. 2007,
> in the top-ten language versions (at that time).
> > 
> > http://libresoft.es/Members/jfelipe/phd-thesis (page)
> > http://libresoft.es/Members/jfelipe/thesis-wkp-quantanalysis
> (doc)
> > 
> > As for the percentages of users by age, education
> level, etc. my impression is that opinions from experienced
> community members are often well oriented. But they're only
> opinions. Until we get the results of the general survey, we
> won't have a clear picture of the current "recruitment"
> targets for all versions.
> > 
> > Nevertheless, according to our updates, it seems that
> the situation is not getting better from Jan 2008 onwards.
> > 
> > Best,
> > Felipe.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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