Re: [Wiki-research-l] Red links as stigmergy
Gregory Maxwell wrote: > I would expect, but do not have data to support: > > That at any time there is small subset of highly active users who > actively use the "MostWanted" features and are personally responsible > for a highly disproportionate number of new articles. I also expect > that there is a much larger group of editors who learn of needed pages > by discovering red-links during their own quasi-random exploration and > do not use the MostWanted feature at all. I agree. There's a corpus of established editors creating many 'wanted articles', plus a large base of viewers which occasionally create an article from a red link they see. Then, you have usual editors which create an article from a red link because they found it when viewing another page, not because they searched on Special:MostWanted. I do not dare to estimate whom is creating more articles, though. An interesting point I often see as an admin is how, when a page has been deleted many times (by being created with gibberish), it always has some incoming links. It is a variant of the proposed case, as the users aren't creating good content, but they're reading and following the red link enough (here they aren't using wantedpages) to make the vandalising noise noticeable. And leave the admin wondering how, having only a few incoming links (sometimes even just one!) so much people went ahead and created it with nothing to say. Thus, I expect that good creations by random people finding a red link follow a similar pattern. ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
[Wiki-research-l] Event: Semantic Wiki Meeting @ ISWC Karlsruhe: Sun Oct 26
Dear Wiki Researchers, a lot of not, new, emerging topics are being discussed in the Semantic Wiki community. Therefore, we are preparing an inofficial Birds-of-a-Feather Meeting of the Community on Sunday October 26th, after the conference workshops/tutorials during the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in Karlsruhe, Germany (the home of Semantic MediaWiki and Semantic Wikipedia!) ... with ... * Lightning Talks (sign up to give one!) * Open Discussion Forum * Get-Together * and more; we appreciate your suggestions! Please visit http://semanticweb.org/wiki/SemWiki_Meeting_ISWC_2008 and 1. let us know if you want to attend, and what your schedule for Sunday is 2. enter a lightning talk that you want to contribute 3. contribute anything else to this page, it's a wiki after all ;-) Looking forward to the meeting -- Cheers, Christoph PS: To learn more about hot semantic wiki topics, and particularly if you won't be able to join this physical meeting, please consider participating in http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_10_23 -- Christoph Lange, Jacobs Univ. Bremen, http://kwarc.info/clange, Skype duke4701 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
