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[edit] Statistics

I'm interested in statistics that would help one understand the social aspects of wiki usage, for example, group dynamics that made Wikipedia a success and other wiki projects a failure.

Currently, there are too many research questions. There's a lack of focus. So a few suggestions/questions:

  1. How about focussing on a key question?
  2. How about moving questions of lesser importance into a KIV page?
  3. Who can help us collect the necessary data?

[edit] key question

From the Wikipedia:List of WikiProjects, which ones are doing the best in terms of:

  1. activity: participants, discussions, etc.
  2. quantity of articles created/improved
  3. progress toward meeting goals
  4. overal value of work products
  5. other factors comprising usefullness
  • How can these be measured?
  • What data can be looked at?
  • What metrics can be used?

[edit] data collection

An idea for collecting data by parsing the Wikipedia:List_of_WikiProjects can be seen if you look closely at Wikipedia:WikiProjectCentral. It has been suggested that one should join the realtime chat network for wikiprojects at freenode: #wikiproject. Note that this is a long-term experimental process, so please be patient and open-minded.

[edit] intro and idea (tomlouie)

Howdy. I've seen some wiki critiques about how someone reading a wiki article may not know if the page is in flux, ie: are they reading it while the page is in the middle of a wide swinging edit war. Or is this a page that rarely gets modified. While the page history and last edit time text shows this, I believe that an icon view of this information can be useful.

I'm keen on helping develop a graph-like element that can be added to the header or footer of Wiki pages. The element would be small, maybe 100px wide, 30px tall. The horizontal axis would show time, and the vertical axis would indicate percentage change of the article. Ideally, this graphical element can be updated even if the reader hasn't refreshed the page, as this will give an indication of whether the page has changed since the last refresh.

Any thoughts about such a tool? Tomlouie | Talk 18:27, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 14:21, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 19:33, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Inactive WikiProject

Hello, is anybody here?

I am doing some processing on a database dump of the English Wikipedia. Almost as a by-product, I have made some statistics and a diagram (and there are more to come). I was looking for a place to put it, and this one seemed most convenient. If anybody besides me frequents this WikiProject, please leave some sign here, and I'll remove the inactive flag. Contributing to an inactive project feels contradictory, doesn't it? AttishOculus 06:22, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

This project seems to have been mostly forgotten. Considering that Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikidemia is barely active, and same goes for meta:Wikimedia Research Network, I'd suggest we ask all interested editors to join one (or both) of those two initatives (which have larger scope).-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  02:42, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Statistics department and Wikidemia

I propose the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikidemia and this project merge into one - neither is particularly active and they basically cover similar areas. It would be nice to see some active research, and merging them into one project would at least create a comprehensive project as a starting point. Richard001 02:41, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Webalizer

Are the Wikipedia Webalizer stats public information? For academic purposes, is it possible to inspect them? Jehochman Hablar 00:03, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Wikipedia records

If you know of any Wikipedia records, please add them to Wikipedia:Wikipedia records. Thanks! -- Jreferee (Talk) 21:18, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article length

Is that true? That almost no articles are longer than 150 x 100 bytes? That is 15,000 bytes? That the biggest drop in article size is at 3,000 to 4,000 bytes? Is that still true today? 199.125.109.103 (talk) 13:48, 29 April 2008 (UTC)