[Wiki-research-l] effects of vandalism and abuse on editors and readers

Hi, Is there any research about the effect of vandalism in wiki content pages on readers, experienced editors, and new and potential editors? And of abuse in discussion pages and edit summaries on experienced editors and new and potential editors? Intuitively and anecdotally one could think of

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Generalizability of research across different language versions

Thanks a lot for bringing this up. Sorry for not offering a solution, but I do want to mention a frequently-missed aspect of the problem: Wikis in different languages have some differences that are understandable because they reflect some objective cultural characteristics of the people who speak

[Wiki-research-l] distinguishing native contributors from helpful strangers

Hi, There is a phenomenon in Wikipedias in smaller languages: There activity level of people who actually know the language of the wiki and make meaningful text contributions is relatively low, and the activity of people from other wikis who make various technical edits that don't require the

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Country (culture...) as a factor in contributing to collective intelligence projects

Very interesting and much-needee research. Thanks for doing this. I'd love to see the results and even the process. Some things to consider: 1. How long is the tradition of having published encyclopedias in that culture? 2. Alphabet: Using a common alphabet may make it somewhat easier to

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gaps

Heather, Thanks for starting this thread. Where can I read your research that comes to the conclusion that automated mechanisms are insufficient for solving the gaps problem? Sorry if this was mentioned somewhere already; I sometimes get lost on long emails, and it's possible that I missed it

Re: [Wiki-research-l] today's survey

I think that I understand WereSpiekChequers problem. I received similar feedback from an experienced Hebrew Wikipedia editor: he said he was disappointed that "I was reading this article to fibd something to improve". I guess that this is a very common reason for experienced Wikipedians, but not

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Survey of Welsh Wicipedia's readership

These are valid questions, and I am curious about them as well. The suggested reasons for choosing Welsh over English are valid as well, and I would add a couple more: 1. They study in a Welsh school and had to research the topic for a homework assignment, which they have to write in Welsh. 2.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Retention of Wikimedians for the long term

I actually suspect that Twinkle is ones of the causes of the famous flattening of the growth that happened in 2007. Twinkle was introduced around the same time. Telling new people they are doing something wrong became too easy, and sticking around became less fun. Though operated by humans,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Retention of Wikimedians for the long term

2017-02-21 17:56 GMT+02:00 Melody Kramer (ET) : > Another fun experiment: a blood bank in Sweden texts donors to thank them > after donating, and then AGAIN when the blood is actually used: > http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/blood- >

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Thinking big: scaling up Wikimedia's contributor population by two orders of magnitude

I agree with pretty much all that Bob says here, except one important point: This is probably correct for Wikipedia in English, and maybe a few other very big languages. A rarely remembered fact: most people don't know English. In other languages there's much work to do in writing articles on

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Thinking big: scaling up Wikimedia's contributor population by two orders of magnitude

The English Wikipedia alone has hundreds of thousands of items to fix - missing references, misspellings, etc. The problems are nicely sorted at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_backlog . There are millions of other things to fix in other projects. So quality is getting higher in

[Wiki-research-l] link trails in different languages

Hi, Here's a fun simple little idea: Did anybody ever try to find what are the most common link trails wikis in different languages? In English, for example, the two most common ones will probably be "s" and "es", in links like [[bottle]]s and [[box]]es; these two possibly appear millions of

[Wiki-research-l] frequency of defaultsort usage

Hi, It's probably not the most important thing to research but just out of curiosity... Did anybody compare the frequency of {{DEFAULTSORT}} usage in Wikipedias in different languages? I just realized that in Japanese it is _probably_ used more frequently than in other languages, maybe because

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Looking for help finding tools to measure UNESCO project

Thanks for this email. This raises a wider question: What is the comfortable way to compare the coverage of a topic in different languages? For example, I'd love to see a report that says: Number of articles about UNESCO cultural heritage: English Wikipedia: 1000 French Wikipedia: 1200 Hebrew

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] statistics about frequent section titles

E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il Date: Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 3:29 AM Subject: [Wikitech-l] statistics about frequent section titles To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi, Did anybody ever try to collect statistics about frequent section titles in Wikimedia

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

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

[Wiki-research-l] published articles about Wikipedia translation

Hi, Is there any list of academic studies of Wikimedia projects sorted or tagged by topic? In particular I'm interested in anything to do with translation, but it is useful for other topics as well. The best thing that I could think of now is going to

Re: [Wiki-research-l] identifying Wikipedia article topics

regards, Maik -- Maik Anderka Research Group Knowledge-Based Systems Department of Computer Science University of Paderborn, Germany http://www.uni-paderborn.de/cs/ag-klbue Am 17.03.2014 16:21, schrieb Amir E. Aharoni: Hallo, Is there any known easy way to classify

[Wiki-research-l] identifying Wikipedia article topics

Hallo, Is there any known easy way to classify Wikipedia articles into a relatively small number of types? By relatively small I mean no more than twenty, and by types I mean things that are intuitively clear to readers, for example: * Biographies * Articles about scientific phenomena (can be

Re: [Wiki-research-l] how find language switch codings? [[xx:xxxxxxxx...]]

I'm not sure of what do you mean by language switch. Do you mean adding, removing or changing a link to a version of the article in another language? If that's what you mean, then you should indeed search for [[code:title]], and note that the 'code' part is one of the 270 or so language codes

Re: [Wiki-research-l] long in tooth: ignoring recent scholarship

2012/5/3 Richard Jensen rjen...@uic.edu: Looking at a spinoff Shakespeare article: [[Shakespeare's plays]]. It's peak activity year was 2007.  A dozen people made 10 or more edits.  It has 26 citations and no bibliography.  There are no scholarly journals. Half the citations are over 40 years

Re: [Wiki-research-l] long in tooth.

2012/5/2 Richard Jensen rjen...@uic.edu: I am looking at the edit history of a number of major articles on historical topics (in the English Wikipedia) A random sample, or something systematic? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in

Re: [Wiki-research-l] New toolbox Wikipedia pages

2011/1/25 Felipe Ortega glimmer_phoe...@yahoo.es Hi all. I just discovered this, it may be potentially interesting for the Wikipedia research community. In short, now for any Wikipedia page, not only articles, e.g. More precisely, for any English Wikipedia page. This tool is useful for all