Research talk:Wikimedia Summer of Research 2011/Questions
Latest comment: 12 years ago by Alecmconroy in topic Predictions on newbie retention
Predictions on newbie retention edit
Just to throw out my predictions before the amazing work being done here actually produces results--
Recruitment patterns have changed over time, and everything around here has changed during the same time.
My intuition is that the strongest factors are:
- An inability to lastingly alter article content. (increasing over time as articles accumulate edits and watchers-- weakly predicted by editing popular articles, predicted by reverts, deletions, or other edits that somehow 'destroy' rather than 'polish' a contribution in the contributor's eyes.)
- An pure inability to substantively add 'new facts' to an article. (increasing over time as our average article-viewed-by-newbies keeps increases in article length, approach article saturation.)
Can't wait to see what you all find! Good Work! --Alecmconroy 15:41, 12 July 2011 (UTC)