Wikipedia:Dispute Resolution Improvement Project/Activity analysis

Methodology for Activity Analysis of Dispute Resolution

To follow up the results of the survey, an analysis of existing dispute resolution techniques will be undertaken to measure the effectiveness of the processes.

The activity of the following pages,

http://enwp.org/WP:3O DRN, http://enwp.org/WP:RSN, http://enwp.org/WP:BLPN, http://enwp.org/WP:MEDCAB, http://enwp.org/WP:RFM, http://enwp.org/WP:WQA, As well as RFCs filed from the period of 1 - 31 May will be assessed the following against the following measures:

• Number of disputes filed: Doing a raw number count based on the history of each page in the period of 1-31 May, I will be able to determine which forums are used the most utilised by the community.

• Number of editors participating: I will determine this by running a database query on the above pages to get a count of editors on those pages.

• Response time: The time, on average, it takes from when a dispute is listed to when a volunteer responds to the dispute. This doesn’t reflect how long it takes for the dispute to be resolved, only responded to.

• Number of volunteers: A key concern from the survey was the insufficient amount of dispute resolution volunteers. Examining dispute resolution threads and the comments left by editors to determine who are participants and who are volunteers will do assessing the amount of volunteers.

• Resolution time: Another concern was the time it took for disputes to be resolved. This will find out how long, on average, it takes to resolve a dispute.

• Success rate: This will be checked by looking at the discussions, and seeing if the dispute had been resolved, based on article and talk page activity.