Thanks for the feedback and resources all. Links to relevant research and
suggestions for editing the draft taxonomy have both been extremely helpful.
To answer emijrp:
While we are interested in getting a better picture of who the most active
Wikimedians are using these metrics, we don't see the results being
something like say, the current lists of Wikimedians by number of edits.
At this point we haven't considered there to be a need to rank or weigh
different activities to different degrees. We simply want to make sure that
we can get a more comprehensive map of the roles volunteers can take.
Steven Walling
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:18 AM, emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi;
It is an interesting topic, but also, I think that a difficult one. It is
said that editcount is not the real value of an user. It is correct, but,
how do you compare the value of different actions like editing a page,
fixing a typo, adding a paragraph, converting a png diagram to svg, taking a
pic, developing a bot, ect? There is no a comparison table.
I can help with the tech side of this task, if help is needed.
Regards,
emijrp
2010/8/12 Steven Walling <steven.walling(a)gmail.com>
Hi all,
I'm Steven Walling, a longtime Wikimedia volunteer. Damian Finol (also a
longtime volunteer) and I are working on the beginnings of a new research
project in cooperation with the Foundation's Community Department.
Everyone knows that editors are publicly listed based on edit count, and
some other details are visible related to the type of contributions an
individual user makes.
The goal of this project is to try and highlight highly active volunteers
who may not participate in tasks that produce a high edit count. By creating
a detailed taxonomy of sorts for all the different roles users can take in a
project, we hope to get a better picture of who the most active contributors
are and what they are doing.
If anyone has done similar roles-based investigations into volunteer
participation or has any suggestions at all, please feel free to contact us
at feedback(a)wikimedia.org.ve or via the project's page on Meta at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Contribution_Taxonomy_Project
Thanks,
Steven Walling
http://enwp.org/User:Steven_Walling
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