Re: [Wiki-research-l] WMF Open Access Policy and Independent Researchers

Dariusz Jemielniak писал 2016-06-29 15:58: what Piotr wrote. If you're a scholar at a research-driven institution, the chances are you are required to publish in SSCI (JCR) journals. The typical OA fees for the journals listed there are 1,000-2,000 USD. dj Absolutely, we have the same (my

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

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

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Signpost readership survey results

On 2015-02-25 23:03, Pine W wrote: Hello all, Your comments on the survey results would be appreciated. The _Signpost _management team will have more to say after we study these results in more detail, and we will publish our comments in a future _Signpost _issue. If anybody is interested

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Existitng Research on Article QualityHeuristics?

On 15.12.2013 13:24, Laura Hale wrote: The issue of volume of citations can also be subject specific.  An article about Sudan women's national football team, which is a Good Article, has 26 total citations. Topically, this makes a lot of sense. Sioma, an article about a town in Zambia, has 23

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Estimate of vandal population

On 29.09.2013 10:04, Piotr Konieczny wrote: I know of the categories, but the problem is that they do not seem to be comprehensive. I can estimate, based on them, that there are at least 150k or so editors who were banned for vandalism, but it seems many vandals do not make it into those

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Counting contributions for review/tenure

On 23.07.2013 22:04, phoebe ayers wrote: Dearest research list! Two things: 1) I am looking for anything and everything about counting Wikipedia contributions for attribution tenure/promotion purposes and/or C.V. enhancement, especially for academic faculty. This includes blog posts,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editor retention and meetups?

On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:38:07 +, WereSpielChequers wrote: Ive been attending London Meetups for over three years, and anecdotally Id say there was a high correlation between repeat or even regular attendance at meetups and editor retention. Of course it is possible there are some editors

Re: [Wiki-research-l] War of 1812 and all that

On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:49:22 +0700, John Vandenberg wrote: It would be good to extend the research of War of 1812 to non-English Wikipedias. Ive had a quick look and it is surprising how many of the articles pretty good, but none are very good. I think that there is a depth level at which

[Wiki-research-l] Total number of notable subjects?

We have a new article in The Atlantic, http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/surmounting-the-insurmountable-wikipedia-is-nearing-completion-in-a-sense/264111/ (which btw I found following Dario's twitter, @ReaderMeter, which I recommend) and this is still the same story of

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Total number of notable subjects?

On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:20:59 +0100, Pierre-Carl Langlais wrote: Considering a, you have this fine study by Emijrp : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/All_human_knowledge Apparently a would be roughly around 120 000 000. As media coverage and scientific research become most efficient

Re: [Wiki-research-l] War of 1812 and all that

On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:13:48 +1100, Kerry Raymond wrote: As far as I can see most of the top 1 editors appear to be making a lot of of their contributions in terms of administration and quality control (eg fighting vandalism) rather than in content. I think the long tail of (good faith)

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Total number of notable subjects?

On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:58:10 +1100, Laura Hale wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: I believe there are two different issues. The first is what is the maximum possible number of articles (this is what I asked). For all practical purposes (manpower we have, time

Re: [Wiki-research-l] The Wikimedia Research Newsletter 2(9) is out

Thanks Dario and Tilman, very interesting reading. Cheers Yaroslav On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:17:08 -0700, Dario Taraborelli wrote: The September 2012 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2012/September [1] IN THIS ISSUE: 1 The

Re: [Wiki-research-l] long in tooth: what outdated looks like

On Thu, 3 May 2012 20:51:27 -0400, Brian Butler wrote: Yes -- Wikipedia is an exercise in knowledge mobilization, not knowledge creation. While there are some exceptions, most scholars are seeking to create knowledge (and academic literature is part of that process -- hence rarely is it useful

Re: [Wiki-research-l] long in tooth: what outdated looks like

On Thu, 03 May 2012 03:41:59 -0600, Richard Jensen wrote: JSTOR reports there were about 300 articles on Shakespeare a year in scholarly journals in 1997 to 2006; none of them are cited, nor any since then and only one before then. This is typical as well of political and military history. Wiki

Re: [Wiki-research-l] long in tooth: highly active editors are 1/3 fewer

These are very interesting figures, but only for EN Wikipedia. I concur with Gerard in that we also need to compare figures with other languages, specially outside the group of large Wikipedias. The generational relay is a well-known effect in open communities (for instance, it has also been

Re: [Wiki-research-l] long in tooth.

On Tue, 01 May 2012 18:27:07 -0600, Richard Jensen wrote: I am looking at the edit history of a number of major articles on historical topics (in the English Wikipedia) I find that most of the important writing was done in 2006-8. Typically, the article reached maturity about 2008 and since

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] User retention statistics?

Thank you all for the replies, I need some time to process this information. Cheers Yaroslav 1. What is the average lifetime of a Wikipedia editor (for instance the one with at leat 1000 contributions)? I recollect smth about two years, but I am pretty sure I have never seen any research on