Hi, can you expand on what you mean by "sample"? If you're referring to analyzing users' edit histories then that should be fine. However, if you're planning to send surveys or messages to them, sending them barnstars, or otherwise manipulating their on-wiki experience, that would be problematic.
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 6:19 PM Haifeng Zhang <haife...@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > Hi folks, > > My work needs to randomly sample new editors in each month, e.g., 100 > editors per month. > > Do any of you have good suggestions for how to do this efficiently? > > I could think of using the dump files, but wonder are there other options? > > > Thanks, > > Haifeng Zhang > _______________________________________________ > 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
