Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editor Activity Analysis & Graphs

2015-07-22 Thread Pine W
I've started a page here for anyone to edit as they think best: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_retention Pine On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:08 AM, WereSpielChequers < werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote: > Research into editor retention issues is only a subset of editor retention > initiati

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editor Activity Analysis & Graphs

2015-07-22 Thread WereSpielChequers
Research into editor retention issues is only a subset of editor retention initiatives, so a list in research space on meta is useful, but not a logical place to document initiatives that haven't involved research. That may sound surprising in this forum, but on Wikipedia there have been lots of

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editor Activity Analysis & Graphs

2015-07-22 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Sorry Pine, but I'm not sure what you are asking for. Are you suggesting that links be added to this page each time someone looks into retention? That would probably be overkill. I take retention measurements on a weekly basis and a lot of that work is measurement theoretic, so it answer more que

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editor Activity Analysis & Graphs

2015-07-22 Thread Pine W
Clarification: standard procedure for *relevant* WMF-funded projects. Pine On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Pine W wrote: > Thanks Aaron, others can build on this. Would it be possible to include > adding links to this page in the standard procedure for WMF-funded projects > (grants, research

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editor Activity Analysis & Graphs

2015-07-22 Thread Pine W
Thanks Aaron, others can build on this. Would it be possible to include adding links to this page in the standard procedure for WMF-funded projects (grants, research, tech tools) as they are proposed, approved, updated, or evaluated? I'm not sure who to ask about this since it would require coordin

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] statistics about frequent section titles

2015-07-22 Thread Aaron Halfaker
If I were going to do this analysis[1], I'd use mediawiki-utilities to build an xml reader script that would use mwparserfromhell to parse a random sample of articles (1/1000 or so) and extract all headers by level to get a dataset with , , , I'd do some simple normalization to lower case, remove

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editor Activity Analysis & Graphs

2015-07-22 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Cool work Jeph. Sorry to not stop by the booth Netha. I'm only now catching up on mailinglist stuff post-wikimania and didn't see the invitation in time. I have a start here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Editor_retention Regretfully, I haven't expanded that in a year, but please do