Re: [Wiki-research-l] Community health statistics of Wikiprojects

2016-01-08 Thread Kerry Raymond
I would say that projects have a number of levels of activity: 1. dead 2. someone is running around tagging articles with the Project banner 3. there is genuine conversation (not just spam) on their Project talk 4. there is some kind of To-Do list that gets added to 5. items actually come off the

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Community health statistics of Wikiprojects

2016-01-08 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 2016-01-08 07:27, Samuel Klein wrote: On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 12:45 AM, Jonathan Cardy wrote: More broadly it would be good to know if wikiprojects are good for editor recruitment and retention. My hypothesis is that if someone if someone tries out editing Wikipedia and is steered to an acti

[Wiki-research-l] The Wikimedia Research Newsletter 5(12) is out

2016-01-08 Thread masssly
The December 2015 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/01/07/research-newsletter-december-2015/ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2015/December In this issue: 1 Does advertising the gender gap help or hurt Wikipedia? 2 T

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Community policing, New Page Patrol, Articles for Creation, and editor retention

2016-01-08 Thread Jane Darnell
Hi Pine, I definitely think that there is enough data to start a project or workspace dedicated to creating tools that will deliver the data in ways that can support decision-making. Given 10 newbie good-faith editors, what are their types of interests and reasons for staying or leaving? Similar qu