Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 173, Issue 5

2020-01-06 Thread Juergen Fenn
Am 07.01.20 um 06:45 Uhr schrieb James Salsman: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ActiveUsers >> > Says about 2,570 active users on meta in the past 30 days, compared to > about 70,000 in unique editors on all projects? 3.7%? How many of these are Wikimedia staff editing in this

Re: [Wiki-research-l] How many papers / books about wikis?

2020-01-05 Thread Juergen Fenn
Am 05.01.20 um 14:35 Uhr schrieb Ziko van Dijk: > I am interested in the number of scientific papers or monographies, > articles etc. about wikis. Do you know about a paper that has come up with > a relatively recent number? > In my understanding, there are several problems that make it unwise

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Does wikipedians feel like commoners ?

2019-12-07 Thread Juergen Fenn
Commoners used to draw on Wikipedia as an outstanding example of commons goods, but Wikipedians usually do not refer to Ostrom's works or even 'The tragedy of the Commons', etc. We mostly draw on hacker's pamphlets such as Eric S. Raymond and John Perry Barlow. At least in the German-speaking

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Aidez à améliorer l'exhaustivité de Wikipédia en français

2015-06-26 Thread Juergen Fenn
Dear Leila, thank you for elaborating how this mailing came about. I would like to address the ethical aspect of your project. In saying For the purposes of this research, we are taking the following approach: we take a more global approach to identify missing content, rank them by

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Community health (retitled thread)

2015-06-05 Thread Juergen Fenn
Hello Ziko, Am 05.06.2015 um 09:33 schrieb Ziko van Dijk zvand...@gmail.com: But I think that this is a good example for a quantitative research that should later lead you to a qualitative look. And maybe it is indeed an indicator for something. In systems theory, one might think that the

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Community health (retitled thread)

2015-06-04 Thread Juergen Fenn
Am 04.06.2015 um 19:11 schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com: Reduced traffic on Wikimedia-l is mostly due to list moderation. That's plausible. Most people on wikimedia-l are moderated by now; I and others unsubscribed due to tyrannical moderation, too. Well, not exactly

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Community health (retitled thread)

2015-06-04 Thread Juergen Fenn
Am 05.06.2015 um 01:05 schrieb Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org: We should concentrate on factual data for research in a long email about how everything is ruined forever because a moderator couldn't find anything of value in an uncited claim that Jan-Bart actively drove people away?

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Community health (retitled thread)

2015-06-04 Thread Juergen Fenn
Am 04.06.2015 um 16:55 schrieb Aaron Halfaker aaron.halfa...@gmail.com: Hi Juergen, That's an interesting hypothesis. Do you have any evidence to support it? Of course, I cannot tell which guidelines are in force from the Foundation's point of view. As I said, I can tell from my personal

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Community health (retitled thread)

2015-06-04 Thread Juergen Fenn
Am 04.06.2015 um 16:33 schrieb Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com: Context: reduced traffic on wikimedia-l. Is this a sign of poor community health? Reduced traffic on Wikimedia-l is mostly due to list moderation. All critical content has been filtered for a while. I became aware of it only