On Feb 27, 2007, at 11:17 PM, Rich Holton wrote:
I assume that these others were
watching recent changes, or had the page on their watchlist and their
attention was drawn by my edit (as Adam recounts, above).
That happens to me quite often as well. An article in my watchlist
that did not showed up there for months, suddenly lights up, I check
the edit, add a new tidbit, a new source perhaps. Tthat attracts a
few edits from other editors, only to disappear for a few months and
so on...
This brings up an interesting statistical analysis problem - Do the
database exports include any user info, such as userid/name and user
watchlists? Is it possible to look at this factor in a public
database export, or would someone have to do statistics analysis on
one of the WMF MySQL mirrors?
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