[Wiki-research-l] Re: How to access deleted Wikipedia articles

2021-11-05 Thread L.Gelauff
Hi Doris, as you can see here , the article was actually deleted multiple times. But it was also restored and recreated. It was definitely deleted, but: * Deletion is not always permanent. Articles can be restored (e.g. after

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Feedback about Wikipedia-related project.

2020-09-22 Thread L.Gelauff
Hi dlab, Are you looking at articles from scratch, or articles that already exist? If they already exist, you could perhaps derive the 'type' from the category the article is placed in, or predict it from the lead paragraph. If you're aiming at articles that get created in non-English (I don't

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editor surveys on race/ethnicity/religion

2020-09-21 Thread L.Gelauff
measures to disguise their country. > > That's a lot of people, but I'm not sure how many editors that is. > > cheers > stuart > > -- > ...let us be heard from red core to black sky > > On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 07:01, L.Gelauff wrote: > > > > Just thinking

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editor surveys on race/ethnicity/religion

2020-09-21 Thread L.Gelauff
Just thinking out loud.. are we looking for actual race/ethnicity/etc data, or is it rather that we're looking for whether someone belongs to an under represented group in their specific situation? If it is the latter, there may be ways to phrase the question without asking for actual

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Data on arbitration, mediation, voting

2018-12-06 Thread L.Gelauff
Hi Ofer, Could you explain a bit more of the background what kind of questions you're trying to answer? I have been looking into voting on Wikipedia myself, and getting clean data is a challenge indeed. Are you only interested in English or also in other communities? Do you refer with 'article'

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Definition of the death of a wiki

2018-11-05 Thread L.Gelauff
Please also note the exclusion criteria that Zhu et al used (not counting people that edit in 10 communities or more at the same time). I'm not exactly sure how that works out in practice, but this should take care of some obvious edits you want to avoid in Wikimedia at least: (interwiki) bots,