Page churn

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Charles Page churn refers to the way older pages are edited and brought to attention in RecentChanges. You could define it, say, as the percentage of pages with major edits in a given week: currently a few percent, maybe 4%?

Page churn is good because:

  1. Older pages can be brought up to date for format (which has evolved a long way);
  2. They can be better wikified (linked in to existing pages, by the addition of links to and from them);
  3. The content can be reviewed;
  4. In particular duplications and parallels to other pages can be picked up;
  5. Better sense can be made of matters not well expressed in the first drafts;
  6. Mistakes can be taken out;
  7. Difficulty levels can be adjusted;
  8. And, naturally, there is plenty that is of interest in older pages, which isn't so accessible just by following links from pages receiving current attention.

benni: Maybe it would be nice, to have an automatism, that took every day a random page, which was not touched since a year or so and put it in RecentChanges with a note "Just to remember...". Should be not so difficult to implement.

Bildstein: But the problem with random pages is that they are predominantely problems, solutions, attempts, biographies, homepages, etc.


Arno (2003-10-12): as for the actual churn rate have a look at SL statistics. In the last 7 days 204 different pages had major edits (2.73%), 498 pages in the last 30 days (6.67%), and 2116 pages in the last 6 months (28.4%). Note however, that 1592 pages were created during the last 6 months, so only 524 of 5870 pages of pages older than 6 months were modified (8.9%).

Charles Seems I was optimistic - by a factor of two.


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