Wikipedia talk:Statistics Department
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:
- How about focussing on a key question?
- How about moving questions of lesser importance into a KIV page?
- Who can help us collect the necessary data?
key question
From the Wikipedia:List of WikiProjects, which ones are doing the best in terms of:
- activity: participants, discussions, etc.
- quantity of articles created/improved
- progress toward meeting goals
- overal value of work products
- other factors comprising usefullness
- How can these be measured?
- What data can be looked at?
- What metrics can be used?
other questions
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.