Research talk:Productive edit

Exclusion of activity on deleted articles

While there's a clear rationale for excluding activity on deleted pages (particularly for cases where deletion and reverts are treated indifferently for low-quality content on new pages) we need to expand here (one may ask how we account for censorship in the definition of a productive edit if we do not include the archive table. DarTar (talk) 23:58, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

I forgot that for Research:Productive new editor we introduced a 7-day limit for page deletion. It probably makes sense to port that to the productive edit definition if we think we want to make the standardization consistent. DarTar (talk) 00:07, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Applicability to all Wikimedia wikis

The definition says:

A revision to an article is considered productive if it is not identity reverted within 24 hours of when it was originally saved.

And the "within 24 hours" is explained by this:

When identifying which revisions were reverted, it's necessary to wait a reasonable amount of time another editor to perform a revert (or not). In the English Wikipedia, most revision that will ever be reverted are reverted within minutes of the original edit, and nearly all are reverted within 24-48 hours.

This certainly makes sense for the English Wikipedia, and probably for some of the largest Wikimedia wikis. However, I'm wondering how much this applies to medium- and small-size wikis, for which the "reasonable amount of time" might be different.

Research:Metrics standardization says the goal is to "provide baseline measurements for all Wikimedia projects", and I'd like to use this standard metric, but I feel uncomfortable using a metric whose definition seems to be based on the largest, most active wiki.

Has there been any exploration of how the metric performs for a random sample of wikis of different sizes? If so, it would be useful to add it to the page. Guillaume (WMF) (talk) 15:29, 24 June 2015 (UTC)