Regarding featured articles, I conducted a small study (should be out in Oct.) on the Portuguese Wikipedia about those related to Ancient History. Although the sample was obviously small, my findings were clear and confirmed by many admins later: most articles are translations/new material made by a very small group of frequent editors, who use their stats to legitimate power as admins. Again here, cultural issues pair with specific community behavior.
Great material, Dariusz, thanks for sharing! Juliana On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 7:17 PM, Dariusz Jemielniak <dar...@alk.edu.pl> wrote: > on a slightly related note, I analyzed the cultural preferences for image, > references, links, word count etc. saturation in good and featured articles > on 8 wikis and found significant cultural variation: > > http://crow.kozminski.edu.pl/papers/cultures%20of%20wikipedias.pdf > > best, > > dj > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 7:17 PM, Peter Meyer <econte...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Interesting topic! Here is a useful analogy regarding the distribution > > of sizes. There has been study of how big cities are within countries or > > worldwide, and there are recurring patterns of the scale of the largest > to > > the second largest, and the second-largest to the third, and so forth. > > > > Without getting into this too deeply you might at least check if the size > > relations among Wikipedias are like those of cities, that is, if they > have > > a similar-looking distribution. If they do, the underlying forces and > > dynamics for city sizes might also apply to wikipediae or other sites. > > > > The math is described by Zipf’s law and/or Gibrat’s distribution. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law <https://en.wikipedia.org/ > > wiki/Zipf's_law>, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibrat%27s_law < > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibrat's_law>. The work by Xavier Gabaix, > > cited there, was my introduction to it. > > > > Like the choice of what city to move to, the relevant Wikipedias for a > > user will usually need to be “close” — geographically for a city, or to > the > > languages the user knows for a Wikipedia. There are other factors > driving > > a user’s choice, if we think of the user as choosing. If the user wishes > > to study an obscure academic subject, they may have to use a large > > wikipedia, and that drives them to also participate there. If the user > is > > focused on a geographically local subject, that drives the choice. A > > larger wikipedia is more useful than a small one, therefore the > > distribution of wikipedia sizes would be more unequal than the > distribution > > of personal languages. > > > > It sounds like, based on Poland and Korea, you can show that Internet > > availability is not driving all the difference. Good to know. — peter > > meyer > > > > > > > On Jul 24, 2018, at 11:30 AM, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > >> Why do you think different language Wikipedia's have different > > >> sizes, outside of the popularity of a given language? > > > > > > Piotr, if you model organic editing production with a Poisson > > > distribution, which is reasonable for a first approximation, 3x+ > > > disparities are just natural for the same population sizes: > > > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution > > > > > > I'm not sure the images in that article capture the wide platykurtosis > > > of large Poisson distributions. > > > > > > Best regards, > > > Jim > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > ________________________________________________________ > <http://nerds.kozminski.edu.pl/> prof. dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak > kierownik katedry MINDS (Management in Networked and Digital Societies) > Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego > http://NeRDS.kozminski.edu.pl <http://nerds.kozminski.edu.pl/> > > > > *Ostatnie artykuły:* > > - Dariusz Jemielniak, Maciej Wilamowski (2017) Cultural Diversity of > Quality of Information on Wikipedias > <http://crow.kozminski.edu.pl/papers/cultures%20of%20wikipedias.pdf> > *Journal > of the Association for Information Science and Technology* 68: 10. > 2460–2470. > - Dariusz Jemielniak (2016) Wikimedia Movement Governance: The Limits > of A-Hierarchical Organization > <http://www.crow.kozminski.edu.pl/papers/wikimedia_governance.pdf> > *Journal > of Organizational Change Management *29: 3. 361-378. > - Dariusz Jemielniak, Eduard Aibar (2016) Bridging the Gap Between > Wikipedia and Academia > <http://www.crow.kozminski.edu.pl/papers/bridging.pdf> *Journal of the > Association for Information Science and Technology* 67: 7. 1773-1776. > - Dariusz Jemielniak (2016) Breaking the Glass Ceiling on Wikipedia > <http://www.crow.kozminski.edu.pl/papers/glass-ceiling.pdf> *Feminist > Review *113: 1. 103-108. > - Tadeusz Chełkowski, Peter Gloor, Dariusz Jemielniak (2016) > Inequalities > in Open Source Software Development: Analysis of Contributor’s Commits > in > Apache Software Foundation Projects > <http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/asset?id=10. > 1371%2Fjournal.pone.0152976.PDF> > , *PLoS ONE* 11: 4. e0152976. > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > -- www.domusaurea.org _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
