Brian J Mingus wrote:
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From: Brian <Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu>
Date: Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Quality and pageviews
To: Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com>
Interestingly, the result is negative. The correlation coefficient between
2500 featured articles and 2500 random articles is .18 which is very low. I
also trained a linear classifier to predict the quality of an article based
on the number of page views and it was no better than chance.
That reminds me of an incidental finding from our 2007 work: we wanted
to use article edit rate to predict view rate, but there was no
correlation between the two.
Reid