A friendly reminder that we will kick off this meeting in a couple of minutes. Join us if you want to talk about research. :)
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 10:13 AM Martin Gerlach <mgerl...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly > Office hours on 2020-09-01 at 16.00-17.00 (UTC). > > > Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves more available to answer > some of the research related questions that you as Wikimedia volunteer > editors, organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in your projects > and initiatives (*). > > > To participate, join the video-call via this Wikimedia-meet link [2]. There > is no set agenda - feel free to add your item to the list of topics in the > etherpad [3] (You can do this after you join the meeting, too.), otherwise > you are welcome to also just hang out. More detailed information (e.g. about > how to attend) can be found here [4]. > > > Started in the beginning of 2020 as an experiment [5], after the first 6 > editions we have evaluated the scope and format of the Research office hours. > In order to decrease barriers of accessibility and to facilitate more direct > interaction, we have switched the format from IRC to video call. We will > re-evaluate the current format at the end of the year. We would also be glad > to hear your feedback and/or comments. > > > (*) Some example cases we hope to be able to support you in: > > You have a specific research related question that you suspect you should be > able to answer with the publicly available data and you don’t know how to > find an answer for it, or you just need some more help with it. For example, > how can I compute the ratio of anonymous to registered editors in my wiki? > > You run into repetitive or very manual work as part of your Wikimedia > contributions and you wish to find out if there are ways to use machines to > improve your workflows. These types of conversations can sometimes be harder > to find an answer for during an office hour, however, discussing them can > help us understand your challenges better and we may find ways to work with > each other to support you in addressing it in the future. > > You want to learn what the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation does and > how we can potentially support you. Specifically for affiliates: if you are > interested in building relationships with the academic institutions in your > country, we would love to talk with you and learn more. We have a series of > programs that aim to expand the network of Wikimedia researchers globally and > we would love to collaborate with those of you interested more closely in > this space. > > You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [6]. > > > Hope to see many of you, > Martin (WMF Research Team) > > > [1] https://research.wikimedia.org/team.html > > [2] https://meet.wmcloud.org/ResearchOfficeHours > > [3] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Research-Analytics-Office-hours > > [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours > > [5] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2019-December/007039.html > > [6] https://research.wikimedia.org/projects.html > > > > -- > Martin Gerlach > Research Scientist > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > analyt...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
