Thank you Luca! Unfortunately I do not have programming skills. I am looking for research results or data already available on these questions to make a reference in my research writing. Thanks again. Have a nice day, Mayo
«·´`·.(*·.¸(`·.¸ ¸.·´)¸.·*).·´`·» «·´¨*·¸¸« Mayo Fuster Morell ».¸.·*¨`·» «·´`·.(¸.·´(¸.·* *·.¸)`·.¸).·´`·» Research Digital Commons Governance: http://www.onlinecreation.info European University Institute - Phd Candidate School of information Berkeley Visiting researcher Phone Italy: 0039-3345440747 or 0039-0558409982 Phone Spanish State: 0034-648877748 E-mail: mayo.fus...@eui.eu Skype: mayoneti Identi.ca: Mayo Postal address: Badia Fiesolana - Via dei Roccettini 9, I-50014 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI) - Italy Fax [+39] 055 4685 201 -----Missatge original----- De: wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org en nom de Luca de Alfaro Enviat el: dg. 11/04/2010 23:14 Per a: Research into Wikimedia content and communities Tema: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Help to solve three doubts on Wikipediaresearch data Hi Mayo, On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Fuster, Mayo <mayo.fus...@eui.eu> wrote: > Hi everybody! > > How are you? I hope happy and fine. I am Mayo Fuster Morell doing a Phd > research on Wikipedia governance at the European University Institute. > > I would appreciate if you could help me with three specific doubts that I > have on Wikipedia data. > > * Is there data or research results on number of users per article? Plus, > what is the more frequent number of users per article? Or, what is the > distribution of number of editors/article? > > I was about to say that this can be derived easily from an analysis of the revisions database table, but then I noticed that no dump of this table in isolation is available from download.wikimedia.org... You can however access all this data by using the Wikipedia API ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API) but it requires some programming. > * Is there data on gender distribution? I know there is the general survey > (which say 12.83% women are contributors) and Ortega works. Is there any > other data on gender distribution?. > > * Does the site learn from the navigation and searches? That is, if a > Wikipedia visitor who reads a Network entry then goes to the Manuel Castells > entry, Will the system understand there is a connexion between them? Will > next time put them together when presenting search results? > > Any suggestion to solve these doubts is very welcome! Looking forward for > Wikimania! Mayo > > «·´`·.(*·.¸(`·.¸ ¸.·´)¸.·*).·´`·» > «·´¨*·¸¸« Mayo Fuster Morell ».¸.·*¨`·» > «·´`·.(¸.·´(¸.·* *·.¸)`·.¸).·´`·» > > Research Digital Commons Governance: http://www.onlinecreation.info > European University Institute - Phd Candidate > School of information Berkeley Visiting researcher > Phone Italy: 0039-3345440747 or 0039-0558409982 > Phone Spanish State: 0034-648877748 > E-mail: mayo.fus...@eui.eu > Skype: mayoneti > Identi.ca: Mayo > Postal address: Badia Fiesolana - Via dei Roccettini 9, I-50014 San > Domenico di Fiesole (FI) - Italy > Fax [+39] 055 4685 201 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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