*"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. Narrow interpretation of the scope with rigid enforcement hasn’t slowed the volume of poor quality questions, but it has given Server Fault a rather hostile and insular reputation and a tendency to give a poor first impression."*
The parallels to English Wikipedia are startling. But the data shared here don't say much to support the Facebook Ate My Online Community argument. Shane Madden's thesis is that community dynamics, not social media overload, are the primary culprit. Recommended reading for the whole research-l list. Thanks for sharing this, Nemo. - Jonathan On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 3:21 AM, Ed Summers <e...@pobox.com> wrote: > That’s really interesting. One could speculate that there is a general > fall off in interactivity on other sites as social media behemoth’s like > Facebook soak up user attention. I know Matt Haughey has written about the > fall off in site visits to Metafilter [1], which he has attributed to > changes in Google’s relevancy ranking. I wonder if folks at Metafilter > would be willing to look at user engagement over time in relation to > Wikipedia’s stats? > > //Ed > > [1] > https://medium.com/technology-musings/on-the-future-of-metafilter-941d15ec96f0 > > > > On Dec 11, 2014, at 4:57 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemow...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Curious discussion about an editor/activity decline at serverfault: > http://meta.serverfault.com/questions/6701/server-fault-needs-professional-quality-questions-not-just-questions-from-profe > > Feels a lot like 2009 discussions about Wikipedia in 2007/2008: > ballooning visits, editors focusing on rollback, sadness spreading, less > work getting done. > > > > It seems however that every community and research about community is > going through the same issues and errors? Someone please give them pointers > to useful research, or something. :) > > > > Nemo > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > -- Jonathan T. Morgan Community Research Lead Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> jmor...@wikimedia.org
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