Hello Kevin Crowston, THank you for the link. I have read your paper about the initial phase and profited very much from it.
My personal opinion on UP editing, not backed by research: IP editing has negative social consequences for the community. This negative side is not quite visible when only looking quantitatively at huge data. Kind regards Ziko Kevin G Crowston <crows...@syr.edu> schrieb am Mi. 19. Sep. 2018 um 18:41: > Jonathan Cardy <werespielchequ...@gmail.com<mailto: > werespielchequ...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > In case I didn’t make it clear, I am very much of the camp that IP editing > is our lifeline, the way we recruit new members. > > Tangentially elated to this question, we have a forthcoming paper at the > CSCW conference about how research conclusions change when anonymous work > (e.g., IP editing) is taken into account. We looked at data from a citizen > science project. Short answer: it makes a difference. > > The paper isn’t up on the ACM DL yet, but you can see it here: > https://crowston.syr.edu/node/756 > > Doing the study requires access to IP addresses for logged in users, so > someone at WMF would have to do the study for Wikipedia, which would be > really interesting and would speak to the question of whether IP editing is > a gateway to further editing. > > > Kevin Crowston > Associate Dean for Research, Distinguished Professor of Information Science > School of Information Studies > > +1 (315) 443.1676<tel:+1%20(315)%20443.1676> > crows...@syr.edu<mailto:crows...@syr.edu> > > 348 Hinds Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244 > crowston.syr.edu <http://crowston.syr.edu/> > > Syracuse University > Most recent publication: Kevin Crowston, Isabelle Fagnot. (2018). Stages > of motivation for contributing user-generated content: A theory and > empirical test. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 109, > 89-101, doi: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2017.08.005< > http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2017.08.005> . > > Check out our new research coordination network on Work in the Age of > Intelligent Machine: http://waim.network/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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
