Hi Pine et al., Apologies for resurrecting this old thread, but my colleague Michael Gilbert alerted me the other day that the API we set up a couple years ago to collect and expose data about EnWiki WikiProject size and membership is still up and running!*
Here's a couple samples: - pages claimed by WikiProject Cats: https://alahele.ischool.uw.edu:8997/api/getProjectPages?project=WikiProject_Cats - members of WikiProject Cats: https://alahele.ischool.uw.edu:8997/api/getProjectMembers?project=WikiProject_Cats Some pretty detailed API documentation is available at Michael's GitHub repo <https://github.com/mdgilbert/node-reflex>. The data should be up-to-date and accessible to all, but let me know if it looks stale and/or you can't access it--it may have been turned off, or placed behind a wall to avoid server overload. I could probably convince the maintainers to start it up or open it up again, if people are interested. A little more about the methodology we used to gather these data is available in our 2013 OpenSym papers[1][2] Hope that helps, Jonathan 1. http://pensivepuffin.com/dwmcphd/papers/Morgan.ProjectTalk.WikiSym2013.pdf 2. http://pensivepuffin.com/dwmcphd/syllabi/info447_wi14/readings/08-Organizing/gilbert.et.al.HotArticles.WikiSym13.pdf *a minor miracle for an academic prototype system On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe that Operation Majestic Titan, a subproject within Wikiproject > Military History, was operating at level 5 for awhile, largely thanks to > the work of a small number of high-frequency contributors. Perhaps there > were and are other projects active in this manner. Also, the Signpost, when > it is going well -- it has ups and downs -- functions at level 5. > > J-Mo, is there a chance that I can set up a meeting with you in a month or > two to discuss using Quarry to extract Wikiproject activity data on a > semi-automated basis, if that's possible? > > Pine > > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Kerry Raymond <kerry.raym...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I would say that projects have a number of levels of activity: >> >> 1. dead >> 2. someone is running around tagging articles with the Project banner >> 3. there is genuine conversation (not just spam) on their Project talk >> 4. there is some kind of To-Do list that gets added to >> 5. items actually come off the To-Do list because they've been done >> >> In my own editing, I've never seen level 5. I know of a few at levels 3 >> and 4. There's a lot of level 2 and many are dead. I think you'd need a >> project at least at level 3 to make it worthwhile to point a newbie at it, >> but that's no guarantee that the conversation taking place will be >> encouraging or welcoming. >> >> While I say I have never seen level 5, I am nonetheless aware of very >> small groups of editors that act like they have a mission but seem to >> coordinate via User Talk than a project page. I must say I tend to operate >> in that mode because I find the formalised projects attract too many people >> who want to "lay down the rules to everyone else" rather than get on and do >> the job. >> >> Kerry >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Wiki-research-l [mailto:wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] >> On Behalf Of Yaroslav M. Blanter >> Sent: Saturday, 9 January 2016 2:34 AM >> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities < >> wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Community health statistics of Wikiprojects >> >> On 2016-01-08 07:27, Samuel Klein wrote: >> > On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 12:45 AM, Jonathan Cardy >> > <werespielchequ...@gmail.com> 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 and >> >> relevant wikiproject then they will be more likely to continue after >> >> that first trial edit. I simply don't know whether introducing people >> >> to inactive wikiprojects is worthwhile or what the cutoff is on >> >> activity. >> > >> > That's probably right. I think a nice cutoff on activity would be: >> > ask all wikiprojects to come up with a banner to show to a subset of >> > newbies, to indicate how many newbies or impressions they want (what >> > they think they can handle), and to create a page/section with an >> > intro and projects for newbies, if they don't already have one. Any >> > project that can manage this is welcome to get a few newbies to work >> > with if they want, in my book. >> > >> >> Actually, already knowing how many WikiProjects are alive (for example, I >> watch several, and most of them are dead) would be already valuable. >> May be even posting a question at the talk page of every WikiProject >> whether the project is alive and able to set up smth would give the answer. >> (Number of watchers certainly does not - many projects are watched by a lot >> of inactive users). >> >> Cheers >> Yaroslav >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > > -- Jonathan T. 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