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List:       wikipedia-l
Subject:    Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedia + culture differences on different
From:       SJ <2.718281828 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-11-03 2:54:37
Message-ID: 742dfd060511021854v5758fd94j535ee5ae7c7e38b1 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 11/2/05, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih@gmail.com> wrote:
> Rui: "Oh no. Not just anyone can get a barnstar. The community must vote on it!"
>
> :)
>
> http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?BarnStar

Mmm, barnstar subterfuge.

As for cultural differences across wikis, it would be fun to have a
wiki-community survey, and ask certain questions of each wiki.  "How
do you say inclusionist/deletionist[/mergist?] on this wiki?  What are
typical 'keywords' that identify troublemakers?"   Also to pick
certain useful comparative statistics -- creation/deletion/undeletion
ratios; anon/other editing ratios; vandalism frequency; admin
activity; density of internal, external, and interwiki links; types of
NPOV/disputed tags, and proportion of articles using them; frequency
of page protection; &c.

elian writes:
> It would be an interesting project to go through all the wikis and check
> for such things but probably nobody has the time to do this - and the
> community seems to consider it more important to found new wikis and
> new projects than to care that all is working well in the existing ones.

There are people who hang out on small wikis (for instance, gathering
other multilingual/cross-project statistics), who might be interested
in doing this. However it is hard at present to organize or contribute
to a project across many wikis.

If this kind of project were phrased in the right way, this kind of
feedback loop could be part of setting up a new project, just as
creating other local policies is.

--SJ
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