I imagine you could do a pretty good job of estimating the amount of time an edit takes by modeling the various characteristics of an edit (chars, edit distance, namespace, etc.) and comparing it to the inter-edit time in multi-edit sessions.
Once you have a good estimator, you could then apply it to single edits. That'd be really interesting. I wonder what weirdness it might turn up. E.g. maybe there are some types of edits that don't take a long time, but they tend to correspond to long inter-edit times for some other reason. -Aaron On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 11:32 AM Nate E TeBlunthuis <natha...@uw.edu> wrote: > Greetings! > > Quantifying effort is obviously a fraught prospect, but Geiger and > Halfaker [1] used edit sessions defined as consecutive edits by an editor > without a gap longer than an hour to quantify the total number of labor > hours spent on Wikipedia. I'm familiar with other papers that use this > approach to measure things like editor experience. > > I'm curious about the amount of effort put into each particular article. > Edit sessions seem like a good approach, but there are some problems: > > * How much time does an edit session of length 1 take? > * Should article edit sessions be consecutive in the same article? > * What if someone makes an edit to related article in the middle of > their session? > > I wonder what folks here think about alternatives for quantifying effort > to an article like > > 1. Number of wikitext characters added/removed > 2. Levenshtein (edit) distance (of characters or tokens) > 3. Simply the number of edits > > Thanks for your help! > > [1] Geiger, R. S., & Halfaker, A. (2013). Using edit sessions to measure > participation in Wikipedia. Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Computer > Supported Cooperative Work, 861–870. > http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2441873 > > -- > Nathan TeBlunthuis > PhD Candidate > University of Washington > Department of Communication > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
