Discussion Network

The size of the discussion network is large, there are 276 individual comments and a total of 5987 interactions between commenters. An interaction is considered as follows:

All commenters on a discussion are considered to have interacted with one another (i.e. a complete graph is formed from the list of commenters on a discussion page)

For indicative purposes, a static visualisation of the total network is displayed below (force atlass 2 layout)

The distribution of data across the 9 boards is as follows:

The largest board is visualised as follows:

Frequency of Comments

The activity of users on the discussion boards is quite variable, with user “Cuboctahedron” racking up 1063 comments over all the boards and 37% of users only made one comment.

The total number of interactions between all users is 5987, removing those users who only commented once decreases this to 5987 interactions.

In the network below, only those individuals in the #Notes board who have commented more than once across all boards are included:

Specific Boards

The sections below include visualisations/analyses of specific boards, note that these visualisations include ALL commenters unless otherwise specified

OED Discussions

This is how commenters on the #OED board are connected to one another if multiple edges are allowed:

Removing multiple edges:

Include only those individuals who commented more than once:

Help & Technical Issues

Women

The “Women writers and autobiography” network appears as follows: