Brian J Mingus wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Brian <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:46 PM > Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Quality and pageviews > To: Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> > > > Interestingly, the result is negative. The correlation coefficient between > 2500 featured articles and 2500 random articles is .18 which is very low. I > also trained a linear classifier to predict the quality of an article based > on the number of page views and it was no better than chance.
That reminds me of an incidental finding from our 2007 work: we wanted to use article edit rate to predict view rate, but there was no correlation between the two. Reid _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
