Comments on: Wikimania Talk notes: “Where have all the editors gone?” http://blog.nickj.org/2007/08/03/wikimania-talk-notes-where-have-all-the-editors-gone/ Just another random blog Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:44:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Seth Anthony http://blog.nickj.org/2007/08/03/wikimania-talk-notes-where-have-all-the-editors-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-118 Seth Anthony Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:01:30 +0000 http://blog.nickj.org/2007/08/03/wikimania-talk-notes-where-have-all-the-editors-gone/#comment-118 llywrch says: "One point in your notes that I am concerned about: that at one point you say 0% of Admins contribute substantial edits." Nick asked me to address this point, so I'll try. That set of statistics come from a sample of 250 recent changes edits. Of that 250, 12% (about 30) were "high content" edits, and of those 30 edits, 0 were made by admins. Obviously, admins are responsible for a lot of "high content" edits... but given that none showed up in my sample, we can say they probably amount to only a small fraction of the total number of high content edits made to Wikipedia. The flip side of the question: what percentage of admin edits are "high content" edits... is something I hope to work on soon; the time-consuming portion of this research is actually classifying individual edits, and to get a really good grasp on editing patterns (and especially on how editing patterns change with time), we'll need much larger samples of classified edits. Hope that answers your question, although if not, feel free to ask me directly ( [[en:User:Sethant]] ) ! Also, if you're interested, check out the slides from the talk, at http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:SA1/Slides llywrch says: “One point in your notes that I am concerned about: that at one point you say 0% of Admins contribute substantial edits.”

Nick asked me to address this point, so I’ll try. That set of statistics come from a sample of 250 recent changes edits. Of that 250, 12% (about 30) were “high content” edits, and of those 30 edits, 0 were made by admins.

Obviously, admins are responsible for a lot of “high content” edits… but given that none showed up in my sample, we can say they probably amount to only a small fraction of the total number of high content edits made to Wikipedia.

The flip side of the question: what percentage of admin edits are “high content” edits… is something I hope to work on soon; the time-consuming portion of this research is actually classifying individual edits, and to get a really good grasp on editing patterns (and especially on how editing patterns change with time), we’ll need much larger samples of classified edits.

Hope that answers your question, although if not, feel free to ask me directly ( [[en:User:Sethant]] ) ! Also, if you’re interested, check out the slides from the talk, at http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:SA1/Slides

]]> By: pfctdayelise http://blog.nickj.org/2007/08/03/wikimania-talk-notes-where-have-all-the-editors-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-117 pfctdayelise Sat, 04 Aug 2007 01:33:10 +0000 http://blog.nickj.org/2007/08/03/wikimania-talk-notes-where-have-all-the-editors-gone/#comment-117 what David said. please fix :( BTW these are great notes, I missed this talk, so thanks for posting them.:) what David said. please fix :(

BTW these are great notes, I missed this talk, so thanks for posting them.:)

]]> By: David Gerard http://blog.nickj.org/2007/08/03/wikimania-talk-notes-where-have-all-the-editors-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-116 David Gerard Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:00:13 +0000 http://blog.nickj.org/2007/08/03/wikimania-talk-notes-where-have-all-the-editors-gone/#comment-116 I dunno if you can kick it from there, but Open WikiBlogPlanet hasn't updated since July 31! I dunno if you can kick it from there, but Open WikiBlogPlanet hasn’t updated since July 31!

]]> By: llywrch http://blog.nickj.org/2007/08/03/wikimania-talk-notes-where-have-all-the-editors-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-115 llywrch Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:51:30 +0000 http://blog.nickj.org/2007/08/03/wikimania-talk-notes-where-have-all-the-editors-gone/#comment-115 Thanks for sharing your notes. This was one talk I wished I could have attended, but due to various reasons I was unable to attend Wikimania this year. One point in your notes that I am concerned about: that at one point you say 0% of Admins contribute substantial edits. Well, I'm an Admin, & most of my edits (although not in the last week or two) have been with the intent to contribute content. Over the last 9 months, the articles I started included almost 600 on the local administrative subdivisions of Ethiopia. They may not be Featured Article material, but I tried my utmost to add everything I could find about these woredas -- or districts. In fact, so much of my contributions are aimed at improving content that I probably ignored my Admin responsibilities. Some days I wonder if I should resign this priviledge, even though I doubt I would ever gain it back. Can you tell us anything about his methodology in arriving at these statistics? Geoff Thanks for sharing your notes. This was one talk I wished I could have attended, but due to various reasons I was unable to attend Wikimania this year.

One point in your notes that I am concerned about: that at one point you say 0% of Admins contribute substantial edits. Well, I’m an Admin, & most of my edits (although not in the last week or two) have been with the intent to contribute content. Over the last 9 months, the articles I started included almost 600 on the local administrative subdivisions of Ethiopia. They may not be Featured Article material, but I tried my utmost to add everything I could find about these woredas — or districts. In fact, so much of my contributions are aimed at improving content that I probably ignored my Admin responsibilities. Some days I wonder if I should resign this priviledge, even though I doubt I would ever gain it back.

Can you tell us anything about his methodology in arriving at these statistics?

Geoff

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