User:Rosskurator~enwikibooks

I’m writing my thesis in media and communication studies at the University in Zurich (Switzerland) about Wikipedia. I research the following question: What are the conditions for a wiki system to produce journalistic texts of high quality. I measure the influence that traffic, number of edits, vandalism, anonymous edits and relevance have on the quality of the articles. To put it into concrete terms, I try to find answers to the following questions:


 * What is the critical mass for users and authors in a wiki system?
 * What effect have number of edits, authors and discussion edits, traffic, age of the article and backlins on quality?
 * what influence has vandalism on quality?
 * Do anonymous authors contribute in a positive or negative way?
 * What is the connection between the relevance of a topic an the quality of the article?

I research a sample of 450 articles from the german Wikipedia.

You'll find more information at http://editthispage.blogspot.com (german) or you can contact me at abraendle [at] gmx [dot] ch.