Amir, this is a great! suggestion. Configuration is a data source we have not considered for analysis yet, you have my support but will have to convince Kevin of the priority / importance.
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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