Re. non-English Wikipedia and editor retention: I ran a large-scale field experiment in and with the community of Swiss editors. We show that purely symbolic awards that provide social recognition increase newcomer retention by 20%, and the effect persists for over a year after initial award receipt:
Gallus, J. (2017). " Fostering public good contributions with symbolic awards: A large-scale natural field experiment at Wikipedia ( https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.2016.2540 )." Management Science 63(12): 3999-4015. Would you mind sharing the eventual article with us? I greatly enjoyed following this thread and look forward to the article. On Fri, Dec 18th, 2020 at 9:39 AM, Ziko van Dijk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > I love the study about Wikipedia articles in different language > versions, and the consequences for tourism in Spain accordlingly. The > researchers improved articles about Spanish locations, and then the > tourism there went up. > Kind regards > Ziko > > Hinnosaar, Marit/Toomas Hinnosaar/Michael Kummer/Olga Slivko (2017): Does > Wikipedia Matter? The effect of Wikipedia on Tourist Choices, Discussion > Paper > No. 15-089, Zentrum für Wirtschaftsforschung, http://ftp.zew.de. > > Am Fr., 18. Dez. 2020 um 18:33 Uhr schrieb < [email protected] >: > > > > In Wikidata we have annotated 1873 items (articles, books, etc.) as > > about Wikipedia. Some of them are listed in Scholia: > > https://scholia.toolforge.org/topic/Q52 > > > > Halfaker et al's "2013" paper, as mentioned, I would also mention. > > > > Apart from that there is the famous Nature editorial article "Internet > > encyclopaedias go head to head" from 2005 which may have contributed to > > Wikipedia rise. I think it is the most cited Wikipedia study. It has > > 3182 Google Scholar citations. And it is the most cited study among the > > Wikipedia works in Wikidata. > > > > > > best regards > > Finn > > > > > > > > > > >> On 18/12/2020 18.23, Jeremy Foote wrote: > > > When it comes to understanding relationships between multiple language > > > > editions, I think that Bao et al.'s work on Omnipedia has a bunch of > great > > > insights for how to think about and measure relationships between > content > > > in different editions. > > > > > > Bao, P., Hecht, B., Carton, S., Quaderi, M., Horn, M., & Gergle, D. > (2012). > > > Omnipedia: Bridging the wikipedia language gap. *Proceedings of the > 2012 > > > ACM Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems*, > 1075–1084. > > > https://doi.org/10.1145/2208516.2208553 > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 11:00 AM Johan Jönsson < [email protected] > > wrote: > > > > > >> Den fre 18 dec. 2020 kl 16:23 skrev Morten Wang < [email protected] >: > > > >> > > >>> > > >>> Halfaker et al's 2013 paper digs deeply into answering why the > Wikipedia > > >>> community started declining in 2007. They find that the quality > assurance > > >>> processes that were created to deal with the firehose of content > coming > > >> in > > >>> with the exponential growth around 2004–2005 also end up discarding > > >>> good-faith contributions. This highlights the problem of how to do > > >> quality > > >>> assurance while also being a welcoming community to newcomers who > are > > >>> struggling to learn all of Wikipedia's various rules and conventions > (see > > >>> also the Teahouse paper). > > >>> > > >> > > >> I think we need to start recommending it with a short explanation on > > >> current trends and mention that it describes a piece of Wikipedia > history > > >> (where the mechanics behind the trend could still be relevant). You > see the > > >> same curve in a number of other languages (especially languages > mainly > > >> spoken in northern Europe), and like English they've typically > flattened > > >> out, English already around 2014, other number of languages with a > similar > > >> trend around 2018, yet we can still read that the Wikipedia > editorship is > > >> in decline in the present tense in papers and articles on English > Wikipedia > > >> published in 2020, referencing The Rise and Decline. > > >> > > >> //Johan Jönsson > > >> -- > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Wiki-research-l mailing list > > >> [email protected] > > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
