Hi Haifeng, Some users will state on user pages that an account is an alternate account. However, this practice is not followed by everyone, and those who do follow this practice aren't required to so in a uniform way.
Alternate accounts which are not labeled as such, and which are used for illegitimate purposes such as double voting, are an ongoing problem. You might be interested in the English Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sock_puppetry. Alternate accounts can also be used for legitimate purposes, such as people who have one account for their professional or academic activities and another account for their personal use. Good luck with your project. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 1:30 PM Haifeng Zhang <haife...@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > Stuart, > > I'm building an agent-based simulation of Wikipedia collaboration. > > I would like my model to be empirically grounded, so I need to collect > data for new editors. > > Alternative accounts can be an issue, but I wonder is there a way to > identify editors who have multiple account? > > > Thanks, > > Haifeng Zhang > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
