Identifying Important Factors for Future Contribution of Wikipedia Editors

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Identifying Important Factors for Future Contribution of Wikipedia Editors
Authors
Yutaka Yoshida
Hayato Ohwada
Publication date
2012
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-32541-0_25
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Identifying Important Factors for Future Contribution of Wikipedia Editors - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2012, written by Yutaka Yoshida and Hayato Ohwada.

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This paper presents research relevant to predicting future editing by [[Wikipedia editors]]. Authors demonstrate the importance of each characteristic and attempt to clarify the characteristics that affect prediction. Clarifying this can help the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] (WMF) understand the editor's actions. This research adopted the increase in prediction errors as the means of evaluating the importance of a characteristic and thus computed the importance of each characteristic. Authors used random forest (RF) regression for calculating the importance. Characteristic evaluation in experiment revealed that the past number of edits and the editing period increased predictive accuracy. Furthermore, information regarding earlier edit actions clearly contains factors that determine future edit actions.

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Yoshida, Yutaka; Ohwada, Hayato. (2012). "[[Identifying Important Factors for Future Contribution of Wikipedia Editors]]". Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32541-0_25.

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Yoshida, Yutaka; Ohwada, Hayato. (2012). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Identifying_Important_Factors_for_Future_Contribution_of_Wikipedia_Editors">Identifying Important Factors for Future Contribution of Wikipedia Editors</a>&quot;. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32541-0_25.