[Wiki-research-l] Monthly research data showcase livestreamed today

2014-05-21 Thread Dario Taraborelli
The next Research Data showcase will be live-streamed today Wed 5/21 at 11.30 PT. The streaming link will be posted on the lists a few minutes before the showcase starts and as usual you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. We look forward to seeing you! Dario This

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Monthly research data showcase livestreamed today

2014-05-21 Thread Dario Taraborelli
The livestream link is http://youtu.be/AUupsnvV1oA On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Dario Taraborelli dtarabore...@wikimedia.org wrote: The next Research Data showcasehttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Research_and_Data/Showcase will be live-streamed *today Wed 5/21 at 11.30 PT*.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Monthly research data showcase livestreamed today

2014-05-21 Thread Kerry Raymond
Are these sessions available for viewing afterwards on YouTube? A live stream isn't much use for my time zone Australian Eastern Standard, UTC +10. I watch the WMF Metrics meetings using the YouTube link so hoping something similar can be available. Thanks Kerry Sent from my iPad On 22

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

2014-05-21 Thread Oliver Keyes
Okay. Methodology: *take the last 5 days of requestlogs; *Filter them down to text/html requests as a heuristic for non-API requests; *Run them through the UA parser we use; *Exclude spiders and things which reported valid browsers; *Aggregate the user agents left; *??? *Profit It looks like

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

2014-05-21 Thread Scott Hale
Thank you, Oliver, This is really interesting and gives some credibility to the idea that the ability to track API/non-API edits could address the bot problem in part, but definitely could miss some bots. Thank you very much for your time to check this and share the results. Anyone think it would

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Monthly research data showcase livestreamedtoday

2014-05-21 Thread Aaron Halfaker
Theoretically, the link should work during and immediately after the showcase. Practically, google seems to be changing things with high regularity so it's hard to comment on the current state of things. On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Kerry Raymond kerry.raym...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks. I