I am applying for a summer student to do a Wikipedia Medicine research project through my department at UBC. One potentially project I am looking it is having them review all the edits made to Wikiproject Medicine articles. The student will go through each edit and a) determine if the edit is okay and revert it/fix it if it is not b) determine which edits are made from IP/new users verses long term edits c) calculate the percentage of positive/negative edits from each group d) they will be going over edits from more than one day old thus we will be able to determine how good Wikipedia is at repairing itself. I am thinking of collecting a weeks worth of edits.
While we have a list here http://toolserver.org/~tim1357/cgi-bin/wikiproject_watchlist.py?template=WikiProject%20Medicine&order=desc&limit=200&t=0&m=1&b=0&user=&off=0&cat=0&hip=0&q=1 if multiple edits are made to the same page in a single day it only shows the last one. Is it possible to get a list of all edits? If should be possible to work with this list if another is not available. If I am able to get approval and funding from UBC I am hoping to run a second round collecting the same data but with "pending changes" turned on for a week on all medical articles. This students would be required to handing all pending changes to all medical articles and will be collecting the same data as before. This will allow us to determine 1) if pending changes affects the numbers of IPs editing 2) if and to what degree pending changes reduces the visibility of poor quality content. The proposed student will be either between first and second year or second and third year medicine and will be working 40 hours per week for 6-8 weeks during the summer. If of course the last part of the project does not get approval I will still try to go ahead with the first part and will have the student join me on the "Medical Translation Project" as discussed here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MED/Translation_project -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l