[Foundation-l] Mail Stats

[Anthere]

Erik Zachte wrote:
> In the category 'nice to know':
> 
> I made a script to measure who is most involved in public mailing lists
> discussions, and on which lists.
> 
> You'll find a complete list of mailing lists and how their activy changed
> over time
> http://www.infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/ScanMail/
> 
> For each list you'll find a breakdown of posts by author, with board
> activity added separately, e.g. for the foundation list
> http://www.infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/ScanMail/foundation-l.html
> 

...
I find these stats more scary than anything :-)

Okay, I shut up for a while...

Thanks Eric ...


> Powerposters get their own page (*). They are all combined at
> http://www.infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/ScanMail/_PowerPosters.html
> 
> Overall board activy on public mailing lists has not significantly decreased
> over time
> http://www.infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/ScanMail/Board.html
> Most change of activity can be alluded to less board posts on technical
> lists.
> 
> Caveat: be careful with interpretations.
> 
> 1 Please don't confuse number of posts of a person with relevance of that
> person's contributions. Less may be more in some cases.
> 2 People who seem less active may be very active on private mailing lists.
> 3 Lists that are hardly active may have a private couterpart.
> 4 People may have posted with different names, some are already interpreted
> as aliasses, but probably some not yet.
> 5 Over time the character of some lists may have evolved as new more
> specialized lists were introduced.
> 6 There is no strict separation between lists. Non technical lists will
> contain technical discussions from time to time.
> 
> These stats are autoupdated daily.
> 
> By the way, I hope to refresh wikistats as soon as a reasonably complete set
> of new downloads is available, with most major wikipedias included.
> http://download.wikimedia.org/
> 
> Erik Zachte
> 
> * Known bug: for some powerposters with special chars in their name their
> own page is not linked properly.
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Unrelated: Delphine pointed out my posts break mail threads.
> That was not on purpose e.g. to draw attention.
> I follow lists through pipermail and copy/paste texts I quote.
> I'll subscribe to mail, and reply in orderly fashion.