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Visualizing Editor Trends in Wikipedia
- cosmiclattes 11y agoI've been working on visualizing editor behaviour on wikipedia for the past few months. The presentation below is a sneak peak on some of the graphs alongwith the explanation on reading them. They have some interesting findings. The presentation - http://slides.com/cosmiclattes/edit-activity-graphs-analysis#/ http://slides.com/cosmiclattes/edit-activity-graphs-analysis... The project page - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Editor_Behaviour_Analysis_%26_Graphs https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Editor_Behaviour_An... The Source Code - https://github.com/cosmiclattes/wikigraphs https://github.com/cosmiclattes/wikigraphs
- cosmiclattes 11y agoA screen grab of some of the graphs - https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/644874872326254592 https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/644874872326254592
- cosmiclattes 11y agoSome of the preliminary findings: The monthly decline in active editors in the english wikipedia may be attributed to the old timers becoming less active. We see this across other languages too. Only the articles in the (beginning - 2007) cohorts continue to see active edit activity. Editor retention rates are much higher in languages like de(german), zh(chinese), ru(russian) etc. zh(Chinese) shows an uptrend on many fronts. Active Editors, retention etc).