What I want to know is this: If a new editor uses VE rather than the source editor, does she or he have a better chance to stick around as an editor.
If the method at [1] is correct, it hints that the usage of VE by new editors indeed improves their chance to stick around, but I'd love to hear the data scientists' opinion about this. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Ideas/How_does_the_availability_of_VisualEditor_affect_the_rate_of_edits_and_editor_acquisition_in_different_languages%3F -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2014-12-15 15:55 GMT+02:00 sankarshan <[email protected]>: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Amir E. Aharoni > <[email protected]> wrote: > > A few months ago I wrote a project proposal here: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Ideas/How_does_the_availability_of_VisualEditor_affect_the_rate_of_edits_and_editor_acquisition_in_different_languages%3F > > I noticed that the text of the proposal does not provide adequate > explanation of "editor acquisition". While the phrase itself can > simply mean 'how many new editors in total have been added to the > community of editors and are continuing to use VE', a suitable scoping > would nice to have. > > > -- > sankarshan mukhopadhyay > <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >
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