When it comes to understanding relationships between multiple language editions, I think that Bao et al.'s work on Omnipedia has a bunch of great insights for how to think about and measure relationships between content in different editions.
Bao, P., Hecht, B., Carton, S., Quaderi, M., Horn, M., & Gergle, D. (2012). Omnipedia: Bridging the wikipedia language gap. *Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems*, 1075–1084. https://doi.org/10.1145/2208516.2208553 On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 11:00 AM Johan Jönsson <brevlis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Den fre 18 dec. 2020 kl 16:23 skrev Morten Wang <nett...@gmail.com>: > > > > > Halfaker et al's 2013 paper digs deeply into answering why the Wikipedia > > community started declining in 2007. They find that the quality assurance > > processes that were created to deal with the firehose of content coming > in > > with the exponential growth around 2004–2005 also end up discarding > > good-faith contributions. This highlights the problem of how to do > quality > > assurance while also being a welcoming community to newcomers who are > > struggling to learn all of Wikipedia's various rules and conventions (see > > also the Teahouse paper). > > > > I think we need to start recommending it with a short explanation on > current trends and mention that it describes a piece of Wikipedia history > (where the mechanics behind the trend could still be relevant). You see the > same curve in a number of other languages (especially languages mainly > spoken in northern Europe), and like English they've typically flattened > out, English already around 2014, other number of languages with a similar > trend around 2018, yet we can still read that the Wikipedia editorship is > in decline in the present tense in papers and articles on English Wikipedia > published in 2020, referencing The Rise and Decline. > > //Johan Jönsson > -- > _______________________________________________ > 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
