Re: [Wiki-research-l] Research into Requests for Comments and the closing process

Thank you all for the pointers! On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 1:47 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > Also RfC practice has varied dramatically over the years; and across wiki > communities of different sizes; and varies strongly with the quality of the > summary being commented on. In

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Research into Requests for Comments and the closing process

Also RfC practice has varied dramatically over the years; and across wiki communities of different sizes; and varies strongly with the quality of the summary being commented on. In many contexts & scales it is ineffective; in others it can work well. A good RfC leads to useful improvement

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Research into Requests for Comments and the closing process

Dear Amy, That's an interesting topic, for your database you might want to just filter your dataset for some outliers that start and close on the first of April broadly construed (it is more than forty hours from when April Fools day starts in New Zealand to when it ends in California).

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Research into Requests for Comments and the closing process

Hi Amy, That sounds like a great topic for research. As an extension of your planned scope, I would encourage you to do some comparisons between ENWP's RfC process and those on other Wikimedia sites, as there are some noteworthy differences among sites, both among language variants of Wikipedia

[Wiki-research-l] Research into Requests for Comments and the closing process

Hi all, We are preparing to conduct some research into the process of how Requests for Comments (RfCs) get discussed and closed. This work is further described in the following Wikimedia page: https://meta.wikimedia.o rg/wiki/Research:Discussion_summarization_and_decision_support_with_Wikum To