Seems like some of these questions seem like they need data not just on revisions, but on web visitors, and click stream patterns. Does the foundation collect or make web access data available?
--J On Apr 11, 2010, at 17:14, Luca de Alfaro wrote: > 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
