Re: [Wiki-research-l] distinguishing native contributors from helpful strangers

2019-06-11 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Looks like these kind of methods would be useful: https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM16/paper/viewPDFInterstitial/13077/12764 I've been looking to implement edit type modeling in ORES. You could use something like this to build a profile on each editor by what types of work they genera

Re: [Wiki-research-l] distinguishing native contributors from helpful strangers

2019-06-11 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello Amir, Interesting, I called this phenomenon "foreigh helpers" nearly 10 years ago: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Ziko/Handbuch-Allgemeines These people do not speak the language of the language version - otherwise they would be simply a 'normal' part of the community. But they help

Re: [Wiki-research-l] distinguishing native contributors from helpful strangers

2019-06-05 Thread Kiril Simeonovski
Hi all, I think this is an excellent research topic that might give us helpful insights on how Wikipedias can benefit from the support provided by non-speakers. Discerning the namespaces where this support ends and whether it was made by humans or bots may also give highly useful information. My o

Re: [Wiki-research-l] distinguishing native contributors from helpful strangers

2019-06-05 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 09:42, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > There is a phenomenon in Wikipedias in smaller languages: There activity > level of people who actually know the language of the wiki and make > meaningful text contributions is relatively low, and the activity of people > from other wikis who

Re: [Wiki-research-l] distinguishing native contributors from helpful strangers

2019-06-05 Thread Marc Miquel
Hi Amir, This is an interesting idea. I haven't found a way to detect whether an editor is native or not. My approach to multingual editing is through the concept of having a primary-non primary Wikipedias. Your primary Wikipedia is the one where you have made more edits to (and you are a primary

[Wiki-research-l] distinguishing native contributors from helpful strangers

2019-06-05 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, There is a phenomenon in Wikipedias in smaller languages: There activity level of people who actually know the language of the wiki and make meaningful text contributions is relatively low, and the activity of people from other wikis who make various technical edits that don't require the know