I would love to put some names to some of these clusters, but that would be unwise! But as I was reading through this, some names did pop into my head. :-)
Carcharoth On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Erik Zachte <[email protected]> wrote: > This is very interesting. Here is the abstract and link to full > article. > > http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1565682 > > In a way there are similarities with Luca de Alfaro's wikitrust work, > in that this study also focuses on profiling editors as means to > predict quality. > > From the article: > > We categorized the contributors that belong to cluster 1 as all-round > contributors since they were engaged in almost all types of actions. > Contributors in cluster 2 were labeled as watchdogs since most of > their actions were reverts. Cluster 3 included contributors who > created sentences while seldom engaging in other actions and were > hence called starters. Contributors that belonged to cluster 4, > on the other hand, not only created sentences, but justified them > with links and references. They were therefore classified as content > justifiers. Both starters and content justifiers, however, rarely > modified existing sentences created by themselves or other people. > Cluster 4 included copy editors who contributed primarily through > modifying existing sentences. Finally, those who primarily focused > on removing incorrect sentences, references and links were termed > cleaners. Thus, a contributor for a given Wikipedia article could > assume one of these 6 roles or could be a casual contributor. > > Erik Zachte > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
