Research:Measuring editor labor hours

Contact

Aaron Halfaker

Wikimedia Foundation

Duration: 2015-08 – 2015-09

Wikimedia hosted

Open access
via meta.wikimedia.org

Open source
via github.com

Open data
via datasets.wikimedia.org

Research:Projects

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

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

Results

to do

In the meantime, see the work log.

References

↑ 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.

[geiger13using-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.

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