[Wiki-research-l] Help to solve three doubts on Wikipedia research data

2010-04-11 Thread Fuster, Mayo
Hi everybody! How are you? I hope happy and fine. I am Mayo Fuster Morell doing a Phd research on Wikipedia governance at the European University Institute. I would appreciate if you could help me with three specific doubts that I have on Wikipedia data. * Is there data or research results

[Wiki-research-l] RS: Help to solve three doubts on Wikipediaresearch data

2010-04-11 Thread Fuster, Mayo
Thank you Gregory. I didn't want to imply that the data should be public. But if Wikipedia system learn from the searchers and the navigation of the visitors. The reason why I am interested on this question is because I am discussing if and why even only using (without contributing) can be

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Help to solve three doubts on Wikipedia research data

2010-04-11 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello, Gregory (? if I remember well) mentioned in August 2009 this: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1446862 All examined sites spy on their visitors, but Wikimedia and Wikipedia. Kind regards Ziko 2010/4/11 Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com: On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:06

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Help to solve three doubts on Wikipedia research data

2010-04-11 Thread Luca de Alfaro
I guess that Wiki(pedia|media) could very well gather statistics on (revision_id, clicked_link) pairs without compromising the anonimity of the visitors. It would be very useful to have indications on which hyperlinks are most useful. For example, I am always curious whether the large

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Help to solve three doubts on Wikipedia research data

2010-04-11 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Ziko van Dijk zvand...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, Gregory (? if I remember well) mentioned in August 2009 this: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1446862 All examined sites spy on their visitors, but Wikimedia and Wikipedia. It's possible

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Help to solve three doubts on Wikipedia research data

2010-04-11 Thread Peter Ansell
The fact that there are only a few wikimedia personell who are able to access the information about browsing trails, and a few community representatives who can check the IP's for registered users doesn't mean Wikimedia doesn't spy. It spys heavily on editing, and then offers some of the

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Help to solve three doubts on Wikipedia research data

2010-04-11 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Luca de Alfaro l...@dealfaro.org wrote: I guess that Wiki(pedia|media) could very well gather statistics on (revision_id, clicked_link) pairs without compromising the anonimity of the visitors. It would be very useful to have indications on which hyperlinks

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Help to solve three doubts on Wikipedia research data

2010-04-11 Thread Luca de Alfaro
The first thing I proposed is innocuous (gathering stats on (revision_id, clicked_link)), and in fact can be done easily with a minimum of instrumentation. The second is very different from the AOL search data. The AOL search data was problematic because it associated data on a per-user basis,