[OSM-talk] Analysing the OSM community

[Mikel Maron]

Matthias

I like the sound of this. Not only useful research, but useful for the active 
OSM community, and for building new communities. A question I get often is "what 
does OSM look like in X country"? These kind of community statistics, easily 
accessible, would be great step towards this.

Similar, and very brief, thoughts at 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Stats#Thoughts_on_improved_metrics

Privacy, I only see the issue with private messages. Easy enough to focus on 
datamining other channels.

-Mikel

 == Mikel Maron ==
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From: Matthias Meißer <digi_c at arcor.de>
To: talk at openstreetmap.org
Sent: Sun, March 20, 2011 10:05:10 AM
Subject: [OSM-talk] Analysing the OSM community

Hi there,

I'm thinking about doing some research on our community itself. I would like to 
do a statistical approach to analyse our commmunication channels
-mailinglists
-Forums
-wiki
-OSM private messages
-OSM changesets
to be able to do some datamining e.g. 'most mappers work strictly local', 'users 
just reading mailinglists in their native language',...

But as far as I know, this informations are unvailable to the public, so I had 
to use the main system instance.
I'm not that sure who might be the right person to talk with, cause of the 
different aspects e.g. technical, privacy,....

Matthias

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