Dear Jan,
It's a fascinating topic and one that interests me as well.
But you have to be careful with your assumptions, our data is almost always
based on user accounts, but we'd like to think we are looking at people.
Some of whom will have different accounts over time. Some of the
involvement
Hi Jan,
This paper may be useful in answering some of your questions:
O. Arazy, H. Lifshitz-Assaf, O. Nov, J. Daxenberger, M. Balestra, and C.
Cheshire. On the “how” and “why” of emergent role behaviors in Wikipedia
Hi Jan,
During my PhD, I did some research about how online uses evolve/develop
over time in online communities using topic modeling / clustering. Topic
modeling / mixture models are very powerful tools to learn the hidden
knowledge and structures underlying the data.
These two papers may be
Hi Jan
Together with other people in my group, we wrote a paper about how Wikidata
editors change their behaviour as they become more experienced.
It might be not precisely what you are looking for, as our study has a
qualitative approach, while it seems that you are looking for something more
Hello,
I am looking for research on how editors transition through various levels
of involvement in their time as editors. The questions I ask myself are:
- How many people to come each month?
- How many editors leave?
…those are not too difficult to answer but…
- How many people become more
