on a slightly related note, I analyzed the cultural preferences for image, references, links, word count etc. saturation in good and featured articles on 8 wikis and found significant cultural variation:
http://crow.kozminski.edu.pl/papers/cultures%20of%20wikipedias.pdf best, dj On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 7:17 PM, Peter Meyer <econte...@gmail.com> wrote: > Interesting topic! Here is a useful analogy regarding the distribution > of sizes. There has been study of how big cities are within countries or > worldwide, and there are recurring patterns of the scale of the largest to > the second largest, and the second-largest to the third, and so forth. > > Without getting into this too deeply you might at least check if the size > relations among Wikipedias are like those of cities, that is, if they have > a similar-looking distribution. If they do, the underlying forces and > dynamics for city sizes might also apply to wikipediae or other sites. > > The math is described by Zipf’s law and/or Gibrat’s distribution. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law <https://en.wikipedia.org/ > wiki/Zipf's_law>, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibrat%27s_law < > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibrat's_law>. The work by Xavier Gabaix, > cited there, was my introduction to it. > > Like the choice of what city to move to, the relevant Wikipedias for a > user will usually need to be “close” — geographically for a city, or to the > languages the user knows for a Wikipedia. There are other factors driving > a user’s choice, if we think of the user as choosing. If the user wishes > to study an obscure academic subject, they may have to use a large > wikipedia, and that drives them to also participate there. If the user is > focused on a geographically local subject, that drives the choice. A > larger wikipedia is more useful than a small one, therefore the > distribution of wikipedia sizes would be more unequal than the distribution > of personal languages. > > It sounds like, based on Poland and Korea, you can show that Internet > availability is not driving all the difference. Good to know. — peter > meyer > > > > On Jul 24, 2018, at 11:30 AM, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Why do you think different language Wikipedia's have different > >> sizes, outside of the popularity of a given language? > > > > Piotr, if you model organic editing production with a Poisson > > distribution, which is reasonable for a first approximation, 3x+ > > disparities are just natural for the same population sizes: > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution > > > > I'm not sure the images in that article capture the wide platykurtosis > > of large Poisson distributions. > > > > Best regards, > > Jim > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > -- ________________________________________________________ <http://nerds.kozminski.edu.pl/> prof. dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak kierownik katedry MINDS (Management in Networked and Digital Societies) Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego http://NeRDS.kozminski.edu.pl <http://nerds.kozminski.edu.pl/> *Ostatnie artykuły:* - Dariusz Jemielniak, Maciej Wilamowski (2017) Cultural Diversity of Quality of Information on Wikipedias <http://crow.kozminski.edu.pl/papers/cultures%20of%20wikipedias.pdf> *Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology* 68: 10. 2460–2470. - Dariusz Jemielniak (2016) Wikimedia Movement Governance: The Limits of A-Hierarchical Organization <http://www.crow.kozminski.edu.pl/papers/wikimedia_governance.pdf> *Journal of Organizational Change Management *29: 3. 361-378. - Dariusz Jemielniak, Eduard Aibar (2016) Bridging the Gap Between Wikipedia and Academia <http://www.crow.kozminski.edu.pl/papers/bridging.pdf> *Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology* 67: 7. 1773-1776. - Dariusz Jemielniak (2016) Breaking the Glass Ceiling on Wikipedia <http://www.crow.kozminski.edu.pl/papers/glass-ceiling.pdf> *Feminist Review *113: 1. 103-108. - Tadeusz Chełkowski, Peter Gloor, Dariusz Jemielniak (2016) Inequalities in Open Source Software Development: Analysis of Contributor’s Commits in Apache Software Foundation Projects <http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/asset?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0152976.PDF> , *PLoS ONE* 11: 4. e0152976. _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
