streaming will start in 2 minutes at: http://youtu.be/arO9YzcTWGE
On Feb 25, 2014, at 6:06 PM, Dario Taraborelli <[email protected]> wrote: > Starting tomorrow (February 26), we will be broadcasting the monthly showcase > of the Wikimedia Research and Data team. > > The showcase is an opportunity to present and discuss recent work researchers > at the Foundation have been conducting. The showcase will start at 11.30 > Pacific Time and we will post a link to the stream a few minutes before it > starts. You can also join the conversation on the #wikimedia-office IRC > channel on freenode (we’ll be sticking around after the end of the showcase > to answer any question). > > This month, we’ll be talking about Wikipedia mobile readers and article > creation trends: > > Oliver Keyes > Mobile session times > A prerequisite to many pieces of interesting reader research is being able to > accurately identify the length of users' 'sessions'. I will explain one > potential way of doing it, how I’ve applied it to mobile readers, and what > research this opens up. (20 mins) > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Mobile_sessions > > Aaron Halfaker > Wikipedia article creation research > I'll present research examining trends in newcomer article creation across 10 > languages with a focus on English and German Wikipedias. I'll show that, in > wikis where anonymous users can create articles, their articles are less > likely to be deleted than articles created by newly registered editors. I’ll > also show the results of an in-depth analysis of Articles for Creation (AfC) > which suggest that while AfC’s process seems to result in the publication of > high quality articles, it also dramatically reduces the rate at which good > new articles are published. (30 mins) > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation > > Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow! > > Dario
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