WereSpielChequers <[email protected]> writes: > Yes, but may I also point out that one of our biggest problems on EN > wiki is that even good faith newbies will often have their edits > reverted. [...] By contrast commons is a relatively lonely > place.
This comment reminds me that for large wikis things can be quite heterogenous across different parts of the wiki (different subject matter, popular vs. obscure articles, etc.), which entire-wiki-level analyses tend to obscure. For example in my own editing, EN-wiki is also "a relatively lonely place"--- most articles I've created *years* ago have gotten no feedback at all in the time since (no comments on the talk page, no non-housekeeping edits, etc.). For other people, of course, it feels like a crowded place where someone is always stepping on your toes, presumably because they edit different kinds of articles. To understand exactly what's going on with editor culture/retention/etc., I think we need to analyze therefore at a finer level of granularity than "the English Wikipedia" (or "the German Wikipedia", etc.). -Mark _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
