This is an interesting video which I look forward to watching in full. In the followup Q&A around minute 50 Spolsky described his subject as long-tail in contrast to notable content on Wikipedia. Is this a distinction often made in user-generated content research?
Can we, for example, characterize the rules for acceptable material as favoring a long-tail or a fat-front? I ask because my current work with federated wiki is largely about allowing diverse rules for acceptability. Best regards -- Ward On Nov 13, 2015, at 10:27 PM, Tilman Bayer <[email protected]> wrote: > Joel Spolsky explained his comparison - which was already mentioned on > this list (Analytics-l) on September 17 - a bit more here: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvEAuSHJOBU&t=2216 > TLDL: it's indeed about the entire Stack Exchange network vs. the > English Wikipedia (i.e. not about the number from Nemo's query), and > they chose this metric for the closest possible comparison - but still > maintain that posting a question or answer is a larger unit of work > than the average WP edit. _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
