Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-08-04 Thread Nemo_bis
Felipe Ortega, 25/07/2009 18:06: > * The main proportion of Featured Articles in all top-ten language versions > needed, at least, more than 1,000 days (3 years) to reach that level. But I often see that even an old, quiescent page is completely re-written or significantly improved by an "expert

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-30 Thread Pavlo Shevelo
> Just curious...where in WP do you think POV and specialist works > could fit? Well, 1) POV (best of them being articulated properly) are the only possible ingredients (raw materials) for NPOV producing. Are you able to create NPOV from scratch (from nothing)? 2) Specialists will (and they real

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-30 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Ray Saintonge wrote: > When I first encountered you you showed a great capacity to be a pain in > the ass. You shared that ability with a few others who were already > well passed their teen years. Your tenacity through all this has been > commendable, and your continuing presence has had a me

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-30 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
> The company I work for employs a large number of people with with > Doctorates in mathematics and quantum mechanics. Most are opinionated > and argumentative but do not read wikipedia in areas that they have > expertise in. The last discussion I had with one of them over a > wikipedia article wen

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-30 Thread Mark Williamson
I'm glad it was enjoyable for you also :-) skype: node.ue On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:44 AM, John at Darkstar wrote: > The most enjoyable dialogue this morning. > Keep up the good work to both of you! > John =D > > Mark Williamson wrote: >> Ray, I appreciate your honesty. I'll agree with you tha

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-30 Thread Milos Rancic
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote: > Mark Williamson wrote: >> This is precisely one of the problems that is holding us back. >> >> Individual prejudices against younger individuals may have scared >> younger users away from the project. >> >> All in all, I feel that we should ba

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-30 Thread John at Darkstar
The most enjoyable dialogue this morning. Keep up the good work to both of you! John =D Mark Williamson wrote: > Ray, I appreciate your honesty. I'll agree with you that I was not a > very pleasant presence on the ML. Reading archives from, say, 2005 > makes me cringe. I'm glad that people were no

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-30 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When the Wikimedia Foundation is to be the centre of a movement, then it has challenges as an enabler. The first most obvious thing to do is make it visible. This means that we do not only reach out to people but also to organisations. When GLAM (gallereies, libraries, archives and museums) ar

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-29 Thread Mark Williamson
Sorry for double-posting but I felt that it was really important to add something. This is a great example of why it is important to keep younger editors around. Promising intelligent young people who are comfortable with and frequent users of Wikipedia now could be leading scientists, artists, an

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-29 Thread Mark Williamson
Ray, I appreciate your honesty. I'll agree with you that I was not a very pleasant presence on the ML. Reading archives from, say, 2005 makes me cringe. I'm glad that people were not as heavy-handed as they could (should?) have been in dealing with me at the time. I learned a great deal about peopl

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-29 Thread Ray Saintonge
Samuel Klein wrote: > I mean basic educational information about how things work, and how > they relate to one another; data and facts; and maps, statistics, and > visualizations of this sort of knowledge. > I vaguely remember some long-ago comments from Jimbo where he foresaw WP as including

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-29 Thread Ray Saintonge
Henning Schlottmann wrote: > John Vandenberg wrote: > >> On wikimedia, young people learn how to properly reference an article, >> which will help them as they progress in their education. >> > Originally Wikipedia was about People, who could already write academic > papers and did not need

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-29 Thread Ray Saintonge
Mark Williamson wrote: > This is precisely one of the problems that is holding us back. > > Individual prejudices against younger individuals may have scared > younger users away from the project. > > All in all, I feel that we should basically treat all users the same, > regardless of age. If a 15

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-29 Thread Ray Saintonge
Lars Aronsson wrote: > Henning Schlottmann wrote: > >> Who are our actual users? >> > This is a good question, not only with respect to level (youth or > academic), but also for topics (academic subjects like medicine, > or popular culture). Retired academics might provide useful input

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-29 Thread Samuel Klein
I mean basic educational information about how things work, and how they relate to one another; data and facts; and maps, statistics, and visualizations of this sort of knowledge. You cannot copyright ideas, nor should one copyright the simplest expression of them. The merger doctrine specifies a

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-29 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Noted, and added to strategic planning page :) On Jul 29, 2009, at 6:28 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > As specific examples: > > It would be great if every publisher of any sort that does basic data > mining and research into primary sources were to share that work > directly on WP and sister project

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-29 Thread Pavlo Shevelo
> licenses -- data, overviews, and reference-style knowledge should all Would you please explain what do you mean as "reference-style knowledge"? On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > When I say "world of WP" I mean "world post-WP" -- the world we live > in, in which certain bus

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-29 Thread Samuel Klein
As specific examples: It would be great if every publisher of any sort that does basic data mining and research into primary sources were to share that work directly on WP and sister projects. Publishers using free media and spending time and effort vetting their licenses should update the licen

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-29 Thread Samuel Klein
When I say "world of WP" I mean "world post-WP" -- the world we live in, in which certain businesses are failing now that basic reliable information and data are available freely... It would be healthy to see compatibly-licensed projects that use different sets of core principles; not just wikinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-29 Thread Kul Takanao Wadhwa
> - experienced professional reference-work writers (and we should help them > find ways to sustain themselves, particularly in niche markets -- one way is > by distributing the underlying work needed to find and organize data). > there is room in the world-of-WP for effective, sustainable POV an

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-29 Thread Samuel Klein
Lars makes excellent points here. We need to include in our community - experienced professional reference-work writers (and we should help them find ways to sustain themselves, particularly in niche markets -- one way is by distributing the underlying work needed to find and organize data). the

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-28 Thread Mark Williamson
This is precisely one of the problems that is holding us back. Individual prejudices against younger individuals may have scared younger users away from the project. When I started at Wikipedia, I noticed several approaches from users: - Some were initially unaware of my age and were surprised t

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-27 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Henning Schlottmann wrote: > John Vandenberg wrote: >> Young people have the most to gain from participating, because the >> skills that they acquire on wikimedia will stay with them, helping >> them in their many years to come. > > And what does Wikipedia get from those young people? We don't ha

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-27 Thread Henning Schlottmann
Milos Rancic wrote: > The whole thread is about long-term sustainability. At least, I > started it with this intention, mentioning that WMF started to work on > that (Strategy plan). "Long term" planning for the Foundation is not planning with contributors who will write on Wikipedia for several d

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-27 Thread Henning Schlottmann
John Vandenberg wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Henning > Schlottmann wrote: >> And if there are kids with knowledge and understanding >> on these or other topics, they will be fascinated by Wikipedia and find >> the project on their own. We don't need to recruit these prodigy childs. >

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-27 Thread Marc Riddell
on 7/27/09 8:32 AM, Dennis During at dcdur...@gmail.com wrote: > It is not entirely a matter of recruitment. > > To me the problem appears in the form of how welcoming the projects are to > the different types of contributors and types of contributions. That, in > turn relates to the value system

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-27 Thread Dennis During
It is not entirely a matter of recruitment. To me the problem appears in the form of how welcoming the projects are to the different types of contributors and types of contributions. That, in turn relates to the value system and cognitive and social biases of those who control the projects. As we

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-26 Thread Robert Rohde
Bleh. When did this become an either-or proposition? You go recruit retired professionals. I'll go recruit young people. Someone else can recruit soccer moms, and yet another person can go after teachers. Everybody wins. The only way to lose is if either: A) You believe one of these groups sh

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-26 Thread John Vandenberg
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Henning Schlottmann wrote: > geni wrote: > >> English wikipedia has 2.9 million articles and far more words and can >> still have things added to it by teenagers. And it's not just >> different inclusion standards. For example [[Langstone]] meets any >> reasonable i

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-26 Thread Mark Williamson
Do you have statistics to prove that they are "few", or that they will find Wikipedia on their own and we don't need to recruit them? Mark On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Henning Schlottmann wrote: > Mark Williamson wrote: >> Do you have data to back this up? For the record, I'll be 20 in Augus

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-26 Thread wiki-lists
Henning Schlottmann wrote: > Milos Rancic wrote: > > We need to recruit people who are willing to contribute for a few winter > months. And maybe - just maybe - continue in spring or return next year > again. Wikipedia was always intended for drive-by editing: Readers, who > correct a fact, add so

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-26 Thread geni
2009/7/26 Henning Schlottmann : > geni wrote: > >> English wikipedia has 2.9 million articles and far more words and can >> still have things added to it by teenagers. And it's not just >> different inclusion standards. For example [[Langstone]] meets any >> reasonable inclusion standards. De does

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-26 Thread Milos Rancic
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Pavlo Shevelo wrote: >> The whole thread is about long-term sustainability. At least, I >> started it with this intention, mentioning that WMF started to work on >> that (Strategy plan). > > Am I right understanding your words following way: > This thread was start

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-26 Thread Pavlo Shevelo
> The whole thread is about long-term sustainability. At least, I > started it with this intention, mentioning that WMF started to work on > that (Strategy plan). Am I right understanding your words following way: This thread was started as PR action for WMF Strategy plan? :-P On Sun, Jul 26, 20

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-26 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Дана Sunday 26 July 2009 07:22:06 Henning Schlottmann написа: > Mark Williamson wrote: > > Do you have data to back this up? For the record, I'll be 20 in August > > and the main areas I edited were pages about cultures, countries, and > > languages since I was about 15. > > Great. And I never deni

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-26 Thread Gerard Meijssen
xes, more friendly, etc.). > > So, all this makes *a lot of sense* in the current situation. Not because > of quantity, but to improve *quality*. > > Best, > Felipe. > > > --- El sáb, 25/7/09, Milos Rancic escribió: > > > De: Milos Rancic > > Asunto: Re:

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-25 Thread Milos Rancic
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Henning Schlottmann wrote: > It is delusional to look three, five, ten years into the future. > Wikipedia is and always will be done ad-hoc. It is fine to plan ahead > half a year or a year, but that's it. I will not even spend time to > think about who will write W

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-25 Thread Henning Schlottmann
Mark Williamson wrote: > Do you have data to back this up? For the record, I'll be 20 in August > and the main areas I edited were pages about cultures, countries, and > languages since I was about 15. Great. And I never denied that prodigy kids exist, but they are few - just think of how many of

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-25 Thread Henning Schlottmann
Milos Rancic wrote: > * Also, statistically, old people are dying more often than young > people. Fortunately our generations (20+, 30+ and 40+) will become > retired academicians or so one day in the future and then we'll have a > very nice expansion in the number of highly qualified contributors.

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-25 Thread Henning Schlottmann
Milos Rancic wrote: > Now, we are starting with the implementation of the Scenario 1: we > want to attract more retired academicians and we don't care for > younger and we are very successful in that implementation. So, during > the next year we are getting 500 more contributors in the ages groups

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-25 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
erecting walls to stop new things/users. From: John at Darkstar To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 2:49:15 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics > Finally, we can not ignore the potential benefits of la

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-25 Thread Milos Rancic
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Henning Schlottmann wrote: > Don't you think it is delusional hubris to plan with editors, who stay > in the project from 15 to retiring age? For pretty much everyone > Wikipedia is of passing interest. The phase can be 30 days, 100 days, > two or three years. But v

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-25 Thread Henning Schlottmann
geni wrote: > English wikipedia has 2.9 million articles and far more words and can > still have things added to it by teenagers. And it's not just > different inclusion standards. For example [[Langstone]] meets any > reasonable inclusion standards. De does not have an article. > [[Ordnance Surve

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-25 Thread Pavlo Shevelo
People and/or folks :) Would you (several of you, starting from Milos) please, OH please stop playing with me in 'Straw man' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man) game!!! > But still there is no really reason to think think we don't have > plenty youngsters able to write science and techno

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-25 Thread geni
2009/7/25 Pavlo Shevelo : > Stewardship is (I'm simplifying) top level of adminship (sysopship). > So if we have 16 year old addmin (sysop) so it 's not big surprise to > see 19-year old steward. > > ... but what about articles on nuclear phisics or same > scientific/technology topic written by 19

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-25 Thread Pavlo Shevelo
Oh, Milos... We were talking about articles on nuclear physics, aren't we? ... and you suddenly switched to stewardship. Why? With all due respect to the institution of stewardship (and each of our Stewards personally ;) ) what's the big deal with that in context of what we were talking before yo

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-25 Thread Pavlo Shevelo
Mark, I appreciate your input to this discussion as well as I believe you regarding your contribution to en:WP. Both of us (you and me) know that there are "bright" young people (geeks etc.) and ... not so bright. Besides I'm willing not to be snobbish geek and I trust that people (whatever thei

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-25 Thread Mark Williamson
Do you have data to back this up? For the record, I'll be 20 in August and the main areas I edited were pages about cultures, countries, and languages since I was about 15. There are lots of intelligent young people scattered across the globe, I don't know how much they are able to contribute to d

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-25 Thread geni
2009/7/25 David Gerard : > 2009/7/25 Felipe Ortega : > >> * The main proportion of Featured Articles in all top-ten language versions >> needed, at least, more than 1,000 days (3 years) to reach that level. > > > Note that FA numbers on en:wp don't indicate a given quailty level - > but a rising q

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-25 Thread David Gerard
2009/7/25 Felipe Ortega : > * The main proportion of Featured Articles in all top-ten language versions > needed, at least, more than 1,000 days (3 years) to reach that level. Note that FA numbers on en:wp don't indicate a given quailty level - but a rising quality level. That is, the quality s

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-25 Thread Felipe Ortega
Best, Felipe. --- El sáb, 25/7/09, Milos Rancic escribió: > De: Milos Rancic > Asunto: Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics > So, to give the answer about quantity vs. quality: We need > quantity to > have sustainable community development or even just a > sustain

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-25 Thread David Gerard
2009/7/25 Milos Rancic : > I have quite opposite experiences. One of them had become Wikimedian > with 16-17 and two years later became a steward (by passing elections > with ~95% of support). Yes. We must keep in mind that the Wikimedia projects attract some *ridiculously* smart, clueful and ca

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-25 Thread Felipe Ortega
--- El sáb, 25/7/09, John at Darkstar escribió: > De: John at Darkstar > Asunto: Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics > Para: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" > Fecha: sábado, 25 julio, 2009 3:47 > I asked a source if they may grant us > access

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-25 Thread Milos Rancic
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > I have quite opposite experiences. One of them had become Wikimedian > with 16-17 and two years later became a steward (by passing elections > with ~95% of support). BTW, one of the persons who trolled the project (sr.wp) was economist who is

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-25 Thread Milos Rancic
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Pavlo Shevelo wrote: > Let me illustrate by example: > I started to invest good portion of my time into comforting 11 (!) > years old boy despite the fact that his usage of "be bold" rule to > several most popular templates was like hurricane that not each vandal >

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-25 Thread Pavlo Shevelo
John, Thanks a lot - you made my Saturday! ;) > Is it somehow possible to let newcomers write articles together with > oldtimers until they learn the most basic things? But why (?) we suggest that it's impossible? If we will put that as (realized) aim this is very possible - we should just to em

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-25 Thread Pavlo Shevelo
> Pavlo, just try not to think synchronically. A teenager in her or his > 17 is probably interested more in music than in nuclear physics, but > just in two years she or he may be a valuable contributor in that > scientific field. And I think that it is clever to invest time and > energy even in 12

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-25 Thread Pavlo Shevelo
Hi Milos, Thanks a lot for so informative comment. Sorry but you provided more for my new counterargumentation than "beat" previous portion :) Let me start bottomup (I have such habit) > ... we are at the dead end Wikipedia community evolve and became different, who said that it's signs of deat

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-25 Thread Milos Rancic
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Pavlo Shevelo wrote: > Teenagers (age between 13-20 roughly) are most active in articles > about entertainment (movies, musical bands, computer games etc.) but > neither in articles on science & technology nor articles regarding > museums, literature (but Harry Pot

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-25 Thread John at Darkstar
> Finally, we can not ignore the potential benefits of large scale > contributions coming from specific communities, specially from > educational institutions at all levels. The potential applications of > Wikipedia to learning environments has been also a matter of research, > and some authors ha

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-25 Thread Pavlo Shevelo
Well, well, well > ... even if your > observations are true Not so bad for the beginning: you can suggest that my observations might be correct. By the way, when I wrote "Face the facts!" I meant (and still mean) observations first of all. > ... You are cynical, and ... > your conclusions are wr

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Дана Friday 24 July 2009 16:42:06 Pavlo Shevelo написа: > > Anyone else concerned by this line of reasoning? What happened to > > Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia anyone can edit? > > Nothing happened and we (at least talking about me) are only realistic > in analysis and straight in putting things

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Milos Rancic
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Felipe Ortega wrote: > You can check more precise figures and graphs in my thesis about general > statistics for survivability for all logged editors and core editors (the top > 10% most active editors in each month), from the beginning until Dec. 2007, > in the

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Milos Rancic
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Pavlo Shevelo wrote: >> * ... Older age groups are not interesting >> anymore in the sense of quantity > > Are we really interested in quantity as that? Are we? > >> In other words, whatever we want or prefer, projects which hope that >> their main recruiting age i

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread John at Darkstar
I asked a source if they may grant us access to some statistics on users behaviour within social media. The time series starts well before Nupedia. John Felipe Ortega wrote: > --- El vie, 24/7/09, Milos Rancic escribió: > >> De: Milos Rancic >> Asunto: Re: [Foundat

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Pavlo Shevelo
> * ... Older age groups are not interesting > anymore in the sense of quantity Are we really interested in quantity as that? Are we? > In other words, whatever we want or prefer, projects which hope that > their main recruiting age is older than 30 -- are dead projects in the > long run (i.e., i

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Falcorian
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:04 AM, geni wrote: > 2009/7/24 Henning Schlottmann : > > Milos Rancic wrote: > >> In all cases we need to think seriously how to educate younger > >> generations about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. > > > > Thanks for all the data and the number crunching. But I

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Ray Saintonge
Nikola Smolenski wrote: > Henning Schlottmann wrote: > > Quite frankly, a 15 years old can't contribute to de-WP anymore. Not > > even 20 years olds can. De-WP has reached a level where undergraduates > > Pavlo Shevelo wrote: > > As a matter od fact teenagers contribute mainly to articles about

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Przykuta
> > Everyone may contribute, but not everyone can.* > to contribute =/= to write new articles / to add new info #categorization #linking #templating #bots making #translating #etc. I know many young people who '''can''' clean up Wikipedia very well. przykuta ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
> Henning Schlottmann wrote: > >> Who are our actual users? > > This is a good question, not only with respect to level (youth or > academic), but also for topics (academic subjects like medicine, > or popular culture). Retired academics might provide useful input > on how to treat cancer, but mig

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Lars Aronsson
Henning Schlottmann wrote: > Who are our actual users? This is a good question, not only with respect to level (youth or academic), but also for topics (academic subjects like medicine, or popular culture). Retired academics might provide useful input on how to treat cancer, but might be out

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Pedro Sanchez
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Jonathan Hall wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 16:31, Yaroslav M. Blanter > wrote: > >> My point is: We don't write for students. Our articles should be on a > > There is some overlap though. I tend to find (certainly on en-wikip) > there are some articles which c

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Felipe Ortega
--- El vie, 24/7/09, Milos Rancic escribió: > De: Milos Rancic > Asunto: Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics > Para: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" > Fecha: viernes, 24 julio, 2009 5:25 > Whatever means in the official statistics. It would be good > to

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
> There is some overlap though. I tend to find (certainly on en-wikip) > there are some articles which could be explained in layman's terms, > particularly in maths and physics, that don't bother and just launch > into a forest of LaTeX. >> I agree that every article ideally should have a "Subject

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Jonathan Hall
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 16:31, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: >> My point is: We don't write for students. Our articles should be on a >> level where everyone, including kids understands the introduction and >> can find further information in the main text, but we should not dumb >> down articles to th

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
> My point is: We don't write for students. Our articles should be on a > level where everyone, including kids understands the introduction and > can find further information in the main text, but we should not dumb > down articles to the needs of school curriculums. > > Ciao Henning > > There are

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Milos Rancic
Initially, I wanted to ask questions; to say that we need this or that analysis. But, I realized that I am able to make some approximations based on my Wikimedian experience. Of course, if we get more precise data, we would be able to make more precise conclusions. On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:48 PM,

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
>> Do you have any ideas how to get them? As I still believe, for many >> articles this is a meta issue, meaning that it is likely that only a few >> people in the world have necessary expertise AND a wish to edit the >> articles, and they all speak English, but may have random mothertongues >> (no

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Marco Chiesa
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Henning Schlottmann wrote: > > But do we know how many professionals and other people from the general > public use Wikipedia every day? One of the most active contributors to > de-WP once told the story that he was at a pediatric with his sick child > and the docto

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Pavlo Shevelo
> we should not dumb down articles Exactly! On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Henning Schlottmann wrote: > Dennis During wrote: > >> It might be possible to rely on a population of academics as contributors >> but there needs to be a mechanism to make sure that the needs of our actual >> users ha

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Pavlo Shevelo
> Dennis During wrote: >> Uhm sorry but I don't think it's acceptable to confine ourselves with the >> user vulgaris, which is by definition semi-literate imbecile :) Our target > > Anyone else concerned by this line of reasoning? What happened to > Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia anyone can edit?

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Henning Schlottmann
Dennis During wrote: > It might be possible to rely on a population of academics as contributors > but there needs to be a mechanism to make sure that the needs of our actual > users have appropriate weight in decision making Who are our actual users? Students are of course well known to use Wiki

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Anders Wennersten
Some complementing data on users from Swedish Wikipedia, -Youngsters 15-22- high turnover & somewhat decreasing volume - do vandal fighting, write of computer games, music, film, sport etc (and these areas are worthy of respect too) -Middle aged 22-50 --An increasing number of low volume contr

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Dennis During
Just to clarify: The passage below was one I quoted and was requoted by Nikola. It was from another en.wikt admin, NOT ME. Moreover it is not en.wikt policy and got negative response, but not as much as I would have hoped, from those I believe to be retired and active academics and graduate studen

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Henning Schlottmann
Nikola Smolenski wrote: > Anyone else concerned by this line of reasoning? What happened to > Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia anyone can edit? Everyone may contribute, but not everyone can.* Ciao Henning * Mantra No.2: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Markus_Mueller/Mantras Disclaimer: T

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Henning Schlottmann wrote: > Quite frankly, a 15 years old can't contribute to de-WP anymore. Not > even 20 years olds can. De-WP has reached a level where undergraduates Pavlo Shevelo wrote: > As a matter od fact teenagers contribute mainly to articles about > sports, movies and other enterta

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread geni
2009/7/24 Henning Schlottmann : > Milos Rancic wrote: >> In all cases we need to think seriously how to educate younger >> generations about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. > > Thanks for all the data and the number crunching. But I think you are > wrong in your assumptions and therefore in

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Dennis During
The retired academics trend is apparent at en.wikt too. There are many valuable depth and quality contributions that they can make and few others can. It might be possible to rely on a population of academics as contributors but there needs to be a mechanism to make sure that the needs of our act

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Pavlo Shevelo
> Do you have any ideas how to get them? As I still believe, for many > articles this is a meta issue, meaning that it is likely that only a few > people in the world have necessary expertise AND a wish to edit the > articles, and they all speak English, but may have random mothertongues > (not nec

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Pavlo Shevelo
> Here we are not looking at 15 year olds, we are looking > at retired academics as the future of our user base. That's right point! If Wikipedia is education tool we should (!) think about something more than "cross-education" of teenagers and students As a matter od fact teenagers contribute m

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Pavlo Shevelo
Hello Milos, What an informative note you made! Thanks a lot! There is a lot to think about but as for meantime would you please provide more details on > If we assume that our target groups > are between 15 and 24... (and you never went over age of 35 in your analisys) ? As a part of that: do

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
> It is the logical step to look for retired academics, because they have > the expertise needed. The demographics in the 15-35 range therefore are > completely irrelevant for de-WP. > > Ciao Henning > > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@li

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Przykuta
> Bad news is that I was right almost a year ago about trends of new > Wikimedians. Relatively good news is that the statistics may be > interpreted as not so bad ones. Good news is that WMF started to act > in relation to those problems around half a year ago. > "July 17, 2009: the method of cou

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Henning Schlottmann
Milos Rancic wrote: > In all cases we need to think seriously how to educate younger > generations about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Thanks for all the data and the number crunching. But I think you are wrong in your assumptions and therefore in your analysis at least regarding de-WP.

[Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Milos Rancic
Bad news is that I was right almost a year ago about trends of new Wikimedians. Relatively good news is that the statistics may be interpreted as not so bad ones. Good news is that WMF started to act in relation to those problems around half a year ago. I went to en.wp stats [1] and I've seen that