[Wiki-research-l] Re: [Announcement] A new formal collaboration in Research

Hi Martin, Regarding the concept of readability, the Knowledge Gap Taxonomy[1] uses the term very broadly. The Taxonomy has readability as one of only one of three components of “Accessibility”, and says that readability is about "Barriers for accessing or consuming information originating

[Wiki-research-l] Re: Best practices for researchers soliciting off-wiki interviews

Hi Jodi, In terms of etiquette, it’s totally fine to post these kinds of interview requests on WikiProject Talk pages. I’d expect though that the people who read WikiProject talk pages are skewed towards more highly-engaged participants. Their habits for assessing scientific and technical

Re: [Wiki-research-l] How to quantifying "effort" or "time spent" put into articles?

Further to Joan’s comment, there are some other ways to stratify edits: - Whether an edit is vandalism, a vandalism revert, an “actual" change. Vandal edits and reverts are both quick compared to good-faith additions and changes. Heavily vandalized articles will have long edit histories, even

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editor surveys on race/ethnicity/religion

all the ways in which they may be "outsiders" is not particularly >>>>>> welcoming) but this is also probably the style of approach (asking >>>> people >>>>>> how well they feel represented within Wikipedia content or editor >>>&

[Wiki-research-l] Editor surveys on race/ethnicity/religion

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Feedback about Wikipedia-related project.

Hi, A good place to get feedback from the English Wikipedia community would be the Village Pump Idea Lab: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab) . It’s not clear to me whether the tool would be suggesting inline links for the text that’s already in the article, or

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Number of registered editors per country

Hi Thomas, This isn’t quite what you asked for, but the editor survey from 2018 might be helpful: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Insights/2018_Report#Looking_at_diversity_across_community_audiences

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Statistics on reverted edits

t; > > > > Tilman Bayer schrieb am Sa. 1. Feb. 2020 um 03:25: > >> Concerning 1) and about analyzing reverts in general, see >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revert . >> >> To explore 5), https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/AbuseFilter and >&g

[Wiki-research-l] Statistics on reverted edits

Hi everyone, I’m looking for statistics about the edits that are reverted on the English Wikipedia. This is for purposes of explaining to the public what Wikipedia’s quality control processes are like. If hard numbers aren’t available, I’m also interested in educated guesstimates. 1) An

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Question on article creation policy

nks a lot for providing all these information! > > Was there a major change in article creation policy in early 2007? > > Can anonymous users create new pages before then? > > > Best, > > Haifeng Zhang > > From: Wiki-research-l

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Question on article creation policy

Hi Haifeng, Re : A more general question is: where to find information about policy changes, e.g., article creation, in Wikipedia? The Wikipedia Signpost usually covers major policy changes like this one (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost) As Kerry pointed out