Research:Newcomer quality/Blog
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- Brief intro to the problem
- The decline
- Comment: always a touchy subject when we're talking about external communication... should probably make this part minimally doom-&-gloomy
- Link to Suh et al. & Editor trends
- But what if the decline is due to sucky newbies?
- So we did a study
- Randomly sampled the first edits of newcomers since the beginning of Wikipedia
- Hand categorized (screenshot of newbie coding tool) the edits of 2100 users.
- We found that (Somehow wrap three plots into something that can fit in a blog post)
- Newbie quality hasn't substantially decreased since 2006 (before the decline)
- But we do see rejection rates for good-faith newcomers rising
- We also see a dramatic decline in productive newcomer retention at the beginning of 2007.
- Title ideas
- "Newbies suck!" The quality of new contributors to Wikipedia
- Kids these days: An analysis of the quality of newcomers in Wikipedia over time - I adore this one. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:05, 22 March 2012 (UTC) Seconded! Maryana (WMF) (talk) Thirded! Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 23:09, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
- Draft
Done