Research:Measuring editor labor hours

This page documents a completed research project.

In this project, I'll be estimating a lower-bound on the number of labor hours committed toward editing Wikipedia by estimating session duration for all editors over all time in Wikimedia's projects.

Methods edit

Primarily, I'll be using the activity session-based session duration estimation methods similar to [1]

Results edit

to do

In the meantime, see the work log.

References edit

  1. Geiger, R. S., & Halfaker, A. (2013, February). Using edit sessions to measure participation in Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work (pp. 861-870). ACM.