Hey all,
Not sure if this would be interesting to researchers or community members,
but: you might remember a paper Stuart and Aaron did a while ago about
measuring edit sessions -
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/Using_Edit_Sessions_to_Mea…
To me it's really interesting, because it's (as much as anything else) a
new metric for measuring participation, and a metric we can extract
additional metrics from (e.g., session length).
As part of some related work on /reader/ sessions, I wrote a pile of code
to handle session reconstruction. I've generalised it (it doesn't care if
you've got reader timestamps, editor timestamps, or best buy receipt
timestamps) and thrown it up at
https://github.com/Ironholds/reconstructr .
I figure it could be useful to any researchers or community members looking
into sessions.
Thanks,
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Oliver Keyes
Research Analyst
Wikimedia Foundation