Hey Max,
There's a class of metrics that might be relevant to your purposes. I
refer to them as content persistence metrics and wrote up some docs about
how they work including an example. See
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Content_persistence.
I gathered a list of papers below to
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Thanks Nemo, I'll re-read that discussion. I think that conversation is where I
became tentative of using bytes or edit counts.
Aaron, in my own search I also noticed you wrote with Geiger. About counting
edit hour and edit sessions. [1] Calculating content persistence is a bit too
However, measuring productivity by the difference of the times of first and
last edits won't do much for those of us who work on pages for hours before
pressing the save button and only save once. (: It also doesn't measure time
spent on private wikis or discussions on email and IRC, which also
