Removing accounts with low numbers of edits will, of course, blind your analysis to users who use throw-away accounts, even when they can clearly be attributed to the same individual.
cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 08:42, Kiril Simeonovski <kiril.simeonov...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Stuart, > > Yes, all those terms refer to a Wikipedia account. My plan is to avoid > sampling accounts with very low activity (probably less then a minimum > threshold of edits) because of the impracticality to draw any conclusion > from them. > > Best, > Kiril > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 8:36 PM Stuart A. Yeates <syea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > When you say "participant", "user" and "editor" do you actually mean > > account? > > > > I routinely notice what appear to be people attending real-file events > > using one account but then editing afterwards with a different > > account. > > > > cheers > > stuart > > -- > > ...let us be heard from red core to black sky > > > > On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 07:00, Kiril Simeonovski > > <kiril.simeonov...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I am currently working on a research concerned with modelling user > > > behaviour on Wikipedia. The idea is to design a field experiment over a > > > random sample of Wikipedians in order to examine their risk preferences > > and > > > define (dis)utilities that will be used in a utility-maximisation model. > > > > > > I have already submitted an abstract that got accepted for the > > > biennial Foundations > > > of Utility and Risk Conference 2020 <https://www.furconference.org/> > > and my > > > future plans include presentation of the concept at other research > > > conferences (including Wikimania 2020). > > > > > > You can visit the project page > > > < > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Modelling_Behaviour_in_a_Peer_Production_Economy_upon_Evidence_from_Wikipedia > > > > > > of this research on Meta. Your questions and comments are welcome at any > > > time. Thank you! > > > > > > Best regards, > > > Kiril > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
