On 01/14/2014 04:07 PM, Tilman Bayer wrote: > but I wouldn't rule out > the possibility that they still achieved a good approximation.
I'd wager that what they have gotten might be a poor sample; there is certainly a correlation between being a "power/advanced" user and more intricate talk page archiving -- so the class of users most likely to get some kinds of barnstars would end up being the most underrepresented in the dataset. I haven't read their paper though - they may well have accounted for that in some manner. -- Marc _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
