Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia traffic: selected language versions

2014-05-18 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thanks for your suggestions. Just some quick pointers below. h, 18/05/2014 08:26: (I-A). Tabulate the data points in absolute numbers first, not percentage numbers [...] (I-B). Include all language versions for the *editing traffic* report as well. [...] (I-C). Provide static data objects in

[Wiki-research-l] Conference venues for Social Media Researchers [Deadlines are fast approaching!] Reminder

2014-05-18 Thread Anatoliy Gruzd
*Apologies for cross-posting* Calling all Social Media and Online Communities Researchers! Please consider submitting your research to the following conferences. Deadlines are fast approaching. (1) #SMSociety14: SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOCIETY CONFERENCE Location: Toronto, ON, Canada When: September

[Wiki-research-l] Kill the bots

2014-05-18 Thread Brian Keegan
Is there a way to retrieve a canonical list of bots on enwiki or elsewhere? I'm interested in omitting automated revisions (sorry Stuart!) for the purposes of building co-authorship networks. Grabbing everything under 'Category:All Wikipedia bots' excludes some major ones like SmackBot, Cydebot,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Kill the bots

2014-05-18 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
People whose last name is Abbot will be discriminated. And a true story: A prominent human Catalan Wikipedia editor whose name is PauCabot skewed the results of an actual study. So don't trust just the user names. בתאריך 18 במאי 2014 19:34, מאת Andrew G. West west.andre...@gmail.com: User name

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia traffic: selected language versions

2014-05-18 Thread h
Dear Nemo, As I am waiting for a more complete response, I am not sure that I understand your last No as in No, we definitely can't means. To clarify, take the CLDR supplement Language-Territory information for example

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Kill the bots

2014-05-18 Thread Scott Hale
Very helpful, Lukas, I didn't know about the logging table. In some recent work [1] I found many users that appeared to be bots but whose edits did not have the bot flag set. My approach was to exclude users who didn't have a break of more than 6 hours between edits over the entire month I was

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia traffic: selected language versions

2014-05-18 Thread Oliver Keyes
Could you give an example of what we could do better than CLDR or the relevant ISO standards? On 18 May 2014 10:06, h hant...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Nemo, As I am waiting for a more complete response, I am not sure that I understand your last No as in No, we definitely can't means. To

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Kill the bots

2014-05-18 Thread Brian Keegan
How does one cite emails in ACM proceedings format? :) On Sunday, May 18, 2014, R.Stuart Geiger sgei...@gmail.com wrote: Tsk tsk tsk, Brian. When the revolution comes, bot discriminators will get no mercy. :-) But seriously, my tl;dr: instead of asking if an account is or isn't a bot, ask