Not to my knowledge, I'm afraid. Others may be aware of research I'm not, however.
On 8 January 2015 at 04:00, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any research about the influence of autopromote variables on > participation, editor retention, and such things? > > I am mainly talking about $wgAutoConfirmAge and $wgAutoConfirmCount. > > See the current values at > http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php > > These are different in various languages, and they seem rather random to me. > The idea is supposed to be to prevent vandalism without hurting wikiness and > editor retention, but are the current values based on any analytics? > > I went over all the bugs that are mentioned in the file to which I linked > above. All of them say "we had a discussion and we reached a consensus". I > cannot read all these languages, but my wild guess is that people just threw > some numbers around without basing it on analytics, and voted to accept > them. The discussion in the English Wikipedia[1] is, non-surprisingly, the > longest (47 A4 pages); I didn't read it all, but it doesn't seem to be based > on any metrics either. > > Anecdotally, I can recall many more times when I, as a Wikipedian, had to > explain people that they need to do a few more edits to get a permission to > move pages, than I had to revert bad page moves by new editors, so there is > a possibility that the autopromote values are not actually very good. > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed_Proposal/Poll > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > -- Oliver Keyes Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
