I'd like to announce an IEG proposal I'm working on titled "Learning from
article revision histories" [1]. If anyone who has studied the evolution of
Wikipedia articles (the extent to which articles always improve in quality)
is interested in the project, please consider getting in touch with me as
I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'm excited about the possible usefulness
of this sort of research for the Wikipedia community, but I'm new to
Wikipedia and I know I am not the first one to ask some of these questions.
If more experienced Wikipedians would like to weigh in on the usefulness of
addressing the efficiency of the collaborative editing process, I've posted
some discussion topics on the IEG proposal's talk page [2].
Pierce Edmiston
[1]:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Learning_from_article_revision_h…
[2]:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/Learning_from_article_revis…