Cool :) I made a task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86189
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2015-01-08 17:23 GMT+02:00 Dan Andreescu <[email protected]>: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > >
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