Projects

Projects

I have some questions about that:

  • What limits quantity of projects most of all?
  • Why all of projects are selected from biggest 10 WPs only?
  • Will research toolkit (software etc.) be available for use by any group who will be interested to run same datamation/numbercrunching process for their 'native' (or beloved :) ) project?
pavlosh00:39, 19 October 2010

The limit on the number of projects is a matter of resources. Right now, we only have one research consultant working on this, so we chose to limit the number of project to something that we thought might be manageable. We chose the larger projects as they are the ones that have a large number of active editors, which should lead to a better statistical result.

Diederik should be publishing the scripts he uses for this project, so people should feel free to use them once their available to conduct analysis on their own projects. If you're interested in doing this analysis for the projects you're involved with, please let us know and we'll make sure to keep you updated.

Howief05:43, 19 October 2010

Statistical presentations at Wikimania suggested that there are different "kinds" of activity on different WP language editions. So it might be interesting to take WP's from a few "types" of editions, rather than just the 10 most active. You're right that the lowest volume WP's by contributions will not be amenable to study in this way; but those are ripe for content analysis and interviews (some of which I think may have already been done)--which might complement this work.

Jodi.a.schneider11:42, 19 October 2010
 

Yes, I'm really interested in doing analyses like that (I'm dreaming about many different things in this wikidemography direction) for ukWP (Ukrainian) which is my native so beloved :) .

So I'd appreciate a lot if you will keep me posted.

pavlosh20:00, 19 October 2010
 

In addition to posting by Jodi.a.schneider above I'd support the idea to explore different 'patterns' in editor trends and I doubt as well that it's wise to hope for some very universal conclusions on the base of 10 largest projects.

pavlosh20:11, 19 October 2010

Yes! I think it's a great idea to look at different WPs with different editor patterns. In fact, that was one of the reasons why we included ruwiki -- they've had a very different growth trajectory than the other large WP projects, so we wanted to compare their editor composition (and how it changes over time) to other wikis such as enwiki that have a very different growth trajectory.

We could very much use the help in analyzing the editor patterns beyond the top 10 wikis. Can we sign the two of you up?  :)

Howief18:28, 20 October 2010

If I'm not mistaken in understanding this expression ("…sign the two of you up") :) I would be glad to become signed up.

pavlosh19:16, 20 October 2010
 

Have you considered including one or two non-Wikipedia Wikimedia projects in the study?

Ningauble15:26, 27 October 2010

Yes, and if time permits, we will certainly do that. If we do not have the time then you will be able to DIY as we will make the software available to all.

Drdee18:59, 27 October 2010
 
 
 
 

Because Smaller wikis have not grown mature. see: Corporate life-cycle theory

Saeed.Veradi22:09, 27 October 2010