Re: [Wiki-research-l] Community health statistics of Wikiprojects

Thanks Jonathan and Jane. The reason that I ask is that I'm planning to encourage newbies to participate in the Teahouse and in WikiProjects via my grant-funded video project . It would be nice to

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Community health statistics of Wikiprojects

I'm not convinced that the first three of those tell you much about the health of a wikiproject. For example when I first reviewed the word staring I replaced most of them in Bollywood related articles with "starring", or I felt jaundiced "appearing". That would have boosted the first two

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Community health statistics of Wikiprojects

Jonathan Cardy, 08/01/2016 06:45: If I were trying to judge the health of a wikiproject in terms of whether they are a good thing to direct newbies to I would be more interested in questions such as: How many active editors are watchlisting that wikiproject? action=info now gives a better

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Community health statistics of Wikiprojects

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 12:45 AM, Jonathan Cardy wrote: > > > More broadly it would be good to know if wikiprojects are good for editor > recruitment and retention. My hypothesis is that if someone if someone > tries out editing Wikipedia and is steered to an active

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Community health statistics of Wikiprojects

*Gabe/Nemo:* There is at least one piece of research that indicates it does, under certain circumstances: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/connect/CSCW_10/docs/p107.pdf At one point, I started building a WikiProject-matching workflow on the Teahouse (with Nettrom, using