After 25 days, 40 questions, and 2480 votes, the results are... https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Program/Wikimedia_Foundation_Product_and_Technology_Q%26A
Thank you to all participants. This experiment has been very interesting so far. The Q&A session will happen next Tuesday at 9:30am Pacific, and there will be a live-broadcast. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Program#Tuesday.2C_January_10th On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > http://www.allourideas.org/wikidev17-product-technology-questions is > closed for new questions but still open for votes until the end of > Thursday. A couple of new questions were added in the past days. Please > contribute a couple of minutes submitting some more votes! > > The results so far: http://www.allourideas.org/wikidev17-product- > technology-questions/results > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 3:26 AM, Gergo Tisza <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 12:45 AM, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > The questions for this session are being crowdsourced at >> > http://www.allourideas.org/wikidev17-product-technology-questions. >> Anyone >> > can propose questions and vote, anonymously, as many times as you want. >> At >> > the moment, we have 25 questions and 451 votes. >> > >> > An important technical detail: questions posted later have also good >> > chances to make it to the top of the list as long as new voters select >> > them. The ranking is made out of comparisons between questions, not >> > accumulation of votes. For instance, the current top question is in fact >> > one of the last that has been submitted so far. >> > >> >> Right now the top question has a score of 70 based on 88 votes; the second >> question has a score of 67 based on 1 vote. (This is not some super-rare >> accident, either: number 8 and 9 on the popularity list both have 4 >> votes.) >> > > Right now the top 10 have questions that have received as low as 8-15 > votes and as high as 80-101. These numbers will be more balanced if/when > more people vote this week. > > I will not attempt to make a big fuss over participation theories, but > IMHO Wikimedia processes are quite biased towards What Is Said By Who Talks > First. This is a humble and harmless experiment in a different direction. > While seeing a question with eight votes among the top 10 defies the > traditional democracy paradigm, it also means that an idea that came later > had any chance over those who were submitted early on. > > At the end what counts is the final result of the experiment. Regardless > of the numbers, I think the current list makes sense, and I in fact it has > been making sense all along since its second day or so. > > >> That means that the scores can be heavily underspecified (ie. mostly >> result >> from the random numbers generated by their algorithm and not actual votes) > > > Well, I am not sure. If a question with eight votes is among the top ten, > it probably means that it has been systematically preferred over other > questions scoring similarly high. > > Currently the very last question has only two votes, which means that the > same algorithm that can put new questions in the top segment can also bury > them down. > > The solution to these potential biases is simple: more opinions submitted > by more people, which is the basis of any healthy group participation. > > Gergo, I am not saying you are wrong (you have clearly done more research > than myself). I am just saying that I don't think choosing this tool for > this purpose was a wrong idea either. :) > > -- > Quim Gil > Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil > -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
