Hello, indeed a very interesting topic, and one should really treat small
and big Wikipedias as very different kinds of websites. Just alone that on
big Wikipedias, you have and use a watchlist, while on a small Wikipedia,
you basically use the Recent changes.
A systematic comparison would be
Just adding a small point I saw while interviewing editors of different
language Wikipedias: I believe (and haven't further investigated, so take
this with a grain of salt) that there is also a general difference in the
behavior of "small" and "large" communities, e.g., in trust between the
Thanks a lot for bringing this up.
Sorry for not offering a solution, but I do want to mention a
frequently-missed aspect of the problem: Wikis in different languages have
some differences that are understandable because they reflect some
objective cultural characteristics of the people who speak
Jan,
You bring up a good point. I feel like there has been a gradual shift
towards research across multiple language communities over the past few
years and that is starting to lead to some informal insights into this
question of transfer of findings across languages / cultures. First a few
Jan Dittrich, 02/10/19 14:35:
- How would you deal with such criticism, particularly of the "if it is not
about 'my' wp it is useless"-kind [2]?
At a minimum, the research needs to have used methods which could extend
to multiple wikis. Being about 2 languages is ten times better than
being
Hello researchers,
A lot of research on Wikipedia is published in English and also uses the
English Wikipedia as source of data or researchers get their participants
via English Wikipedia [0].
A frequent criticism I meet when discussing such research with non-en.wp
community members is that
