It was a difficult issue. We finally decided to filtered out all annonymous users, consistently, in all our studies (and also in the results I will present in my Ph.D. thesis).
NAT and proxies prevent us to trace down individual users correctly, since the database only stores de IP address, and many "real" users may be hidden behind the same IP. The problem may be the same for logged users (one real user with multiple accounts) but this is less common, and even discouraged due to possible suspicious behaviors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sock_puppetry Cheers, F. --- El lun, 17/11/08, Desilets, Alain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > De: Desilets, Alain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Asunto: RE: [Wiki-research-l] "Regular contributor" > Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Research into Wikimedia content and communities" > <[email protected]> > Fecha: lunes, 17 noviembre, 2008 4:14 > > > Interesting. So, in summary: > > > > > > - Most edits done by a small core > > > - But, most of the text created by the long tail > > > - However, most of the text that people actually > read, was created > by > > > the small core > > > > > > Is that a good summary of what we know about this > question? > > > > > > > I think so :). > > BTW, what is the status of anonymous edits in those > studies? > > Are anonymous edits excluded from these studies altogether? > > If they are included, is anonymous treated as a single > highly productive > "user", or is it treated as being part of the > long tail? > > Alain _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
