Gordon Joly wrote:
At 08:55 -0500 16/12/05, Jimmy Wales wrote:
In January, it is anticipated that the
long-awaited "article validation"
feature will go live. This is essentially just a system for gathering
public feedback and *doing nothing with it* (at first). The idea is to
simply record feedback on all the articles and then take a look at it
with minimal a prior preconceptions on what it will tell us to do.
[...]
So, how does that differ from a member of the "public" editing by
correcting an article or musing in the talk page?
Action research anyone?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_research
I read Action research is
1. Data Collection
2. Evaluation
3. Action
4. ...
So what data do you need?
# edits per article (for which articles)
# edits on it's discussion page (dito)
# distinct authors per article
# distinct authors per discussion page
# percentage of anonymous edits
...?
Unfourtunately the history export is disabled but I can get the data out
of the XML dump und the database.
Greetings,
Jakob