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2004-03-09

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A thought just popped into my head and I wanted to save it. I was thinking about the barrier to entry on wikis. A lot of wiki engines will show the ReadToEditRatio?, that is, comparing how many reads there are on a page versus how many times the page is updated. It can be useful to tell how inviting your UserInterface is for getting people to BeBold, as well as how complete and stable a page is. If a page covers its topic well, then the read-to-edit ratio should be high.

I'm wondering if any wiki engines have EditToSaveRatio? info -- how often people hit the "Edit this page" link, versus how often they actually save it. It'd be an interesting measure of a few things: how easy-to-use editing is (is the markup complicated? is the interface inviting?), as well as how the editorial norms of the wiki make editing easy. Long pages, ThreadMess pages, etc. may be hard to find a place to add info. Pages with complicated wiki markup may be hard to edit.

I guess this should go on WikiFeatures, now that I think about it.

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