User:Halfak (WMF)/OB6 type of articles edited
 | This page in a nutshell: 67% of first edits are to main regardless of condition. Of those main edits, test and control generally edit the same length articles. However, test users tended to get significantly more watched articles than the control users. |
To explore how OB6 affects the types of pages that newcomers make their first edits to, I gathered stats on the Articles where users bucketed in the experiment made their first edits.
While only 67% of first edits were made to articles, only articles make sense when asking questions with regards to page length, watchers and views. So the following analyses examined only those first edits which changed NS0 pages.
Page Length (at time of edit) edit
The length of an article is one of the best predictors of the article’s quality level. Previous work has shown that, newcomers tend to be reverted when they edit longer pages[1].
How does the length of pages first edited by newcomers differ by condition and return to status?
There could be some minor variations related to OB6 vs. control, but they are not large enough for us to be sure that they are real.
# of page watchers (2013-10-31) edit
Another way to look at the activities of newcomers is by the number of watchlisters who are watching the pages they edit.
Here, we do see some significant differences. Newcomers with OB6 tend to edit articles with more watchers in their first edit (t = -3.998, p < 0.001). This difference is relatively consistent across all return_to states.
How does the # of watchers of pages first edited by newcomers differ by condition and return to status?
