> I am applying for a summer student to do a Wikipedia Medicine research > project through my department at UBC. One potentially project I am > looking > it is having them review all the edits made to Wikiproject Medicine > articles. The student will go through each edit and a) determine if the > edit is okay and revert it/fix it if it is not b) determine which edits > are > made from IP/new users verses long term edits c) calculate the percentage > of positive/negative edits from each group d) they will be going over > edits > from more than one day old thus we will be able to determine how good > Wikipedia is at repairing itself. I am thinking of collecting a weeks > worth > of edits. > > While we have a list here > http://toolserver.org/~tim1357/cgi-bin/wikiproject_watchlist.py?template=WikiProject%20Medicine&order=desc&limit=200&t=0&m=1&b=0&user=&off=0&cat=0&hip=0&q=1 > if multiple edits > are made to the same page in a single day it only shows the last one. Is > it > possible to get a list of all edits? If should be possible to work with > this list if another is not available.
For the first topic on that list click on "hist" and you'll get the editing history for the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Psychopathy&action=history You can take that back, usually, to the first edit which created the article. This is a wonderful project. There is a study that 50% of doctors sometimes consult Wikipedia and that 5% edit, probably the largest percentage of any professional group; and you can't say they're not busy. I suspect that ips in this area are more often responsible editors than is usual, simply doctors who do not have an account. Fred > > If I am able to get approval and funding from UBC I am hoping to run a > second round collecting the same data but with "pending changes" turned > on > for a week on all medical articles. This students would be required to > handing all pending changes to all medical articles and will be > collecting > the same data as before. This will allow us to determine 1) if pending > changes affects the numbers of IPs editing 2) if and to what degree > pending > changes reduces the visibility of poor quality content. The proposed > student will be either between first and second year or second and third > year medicine and will be working 40 hours per week for 6-8 weeks during > the summer. If of course the last part of the project does not get > approval > I will still try to go ahead with the first part and will have the > student > join me on the "Medical Translation Project" as discussed here > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MED/Translation_project > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
