On 12.12.2014, at 06:07, James Salsman
jsals...@gmail.commailto:jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
Where is the evidence that a greater proportion of reverts is
associated with increased hostility instead of higher article quality
standards?
good point, one could also blame it on the postulated no easy
Thanks for posting this thoughtful contribution!
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote:
FYI, I'm wondering if anyone has compared Wikipedia's hyper growth until
2007 and subsequent slower rate of production to the phenomenon of music CD
sales in the
I believe you are on something that would be very worthwhile to look
further into
I often think of three phases and likens it to shooting at a wall with a
paintball gun
-first you get enormous result and really see effect but the wall is
uneven painted, but to fill in the gaps in not as fun
Anders, I have also thought about that aspect and that is why I contribute
to Mix-n-Match. We have at our disposal lots of finite datasets that were
used to populate Wikipedia with in the early days. Most notable on the
English Wikipedia is the out-of-copyright versions of the Encyclopedia
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 3:40 AM, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote:
That said, I still feel the Facebook/Twitter ate my community angle
merits more analysis. The fact that all the major language Wikipedia
editions dropped in that same 2007 time frame, as well as WikiHow, is still
I wish we had the slides for this, but Jack Herrick of WikiHow presented at
Wikimania 2012 on the features put in to promote more community growth.
There is video, however! And the exact time code is here:
http://youtu.be/qI07vokWXBY?t=53m28s
Quick transcription of that section of Jack
*We don’t want our best contributors feeling like the most important
contribution they can make is to find stuff to get rid of - and more
importantly, we want to avoid deterring people from joining the community
and participating by being over-protective of what we want the site to look
like.
Thanks indeed Nemo -- Anybody have any contacts there we could talk to?
-Toby
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Jonathan Morgan jmor...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
*We don’t want our best contributors feeling like the most important
contribution they can make is to find stuff to get rid of - and
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 3:15 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
I continue to maintain that editor attrition is due to the natural
transition from writing and completing new articles to maintaining old
articles, and have seen nothing to convince me otherwise or of the
validity of any
James,
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:The_Rise_and_Decline
It seems clear that hostility has increased. Look at this graph
specifically:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Desirable_newcomer_reverts_over_time.png
-Aaron
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 3:55 PM, James Salsman
Jonathan Morgan jmor...@wikimedia.org writes:
My pet example, taken from
an internet comment thread a couple years ago, and still true today:
there's a Wikipedia article for every Linux distribution, but not a single
Korean Supreme Court Justice has an article.
Well, the Chief Justice does
Jonathan Morgan wrote:
...
not a single Korean Supreme Court Justice has an article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Sung-tae
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_In-bok
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Sang-hoon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Shin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_So-young
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