Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikimedia monthly research showcase: Feb 26, 11.30 PT
Yay! Very cool to see this :) Heather Ford Oxford Internet Institute http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk Doctoral Programme EthnographyMatters http://ethnographymatters.net | Oxford Digital Ethnography Group http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/?id=115 http://hblog.org | @hfordsa http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa On 26 February 2014 23:43, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for these showcases, they are great. I'm a fan of using session data as a baseline metric; kudos to Oliver for this work. Is there a catalog of all data that could possibly be available (for instance, the mw.session cookie), along with where it is logged, for how long, and where in various toolchains it gets stripped out? Related lists could be useful for planning: * Limitations our privacy policies place on data gathering (handy when reviewing those policies) * Studies that are easy and hard given the types of data we gather * Wishlists (from external researchers, and from internal staff) of data-sets that would be useful but aren't currently available. Along with a sense of priority, complexity, cost. On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Dario Taraborelli dtarabore...@wikimedia.org wrote: Starting tomorrow (February 26), we will be broadcasting the monthly showcase of the Wikimedia Research and Data team. The showcase is an opportunity to present and discuss recent work researchers at the Foundation have been conducting. The showcase will start at 11.30 Pacific Time and we will post a link to the stream a few minutes before it starts. You can also join the conversation on the #wikimedia-office IRC channel on freenode (we'll be sticking around after the end of the showcase to answer any question). This month, we'll be talking about Wikipedia mobile readers and article creation trends: Oliver Keyes Mobile session times A prerequisite to many pieces of interesting reader research is being able to accurately identify the length of users' 'sessions'. I will explain one potential way of doing it, how I've applied it to mobile readers, and what research this opens up. (20 mins) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Mobile_sessions Aaron Halfaker Wikipedia article creation research I'll present research examining trends in newcomer article creation across 10 languages with a focus on English and German Wikipedias. I'll show that, in wikis where anonymous users can create articles, their articles are less likely to be deleted than articles created by newly registered editors. I'll also show the results of an in-depth analysis of Articles for Creation (AfC) which suggest that while AfC's process seems to result in the publication of high quality articles, it also dramatically reduces the rate at which good new articles are published. (30 mins) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow! Dario ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
Re: [Wiki-research-l] Upcoming research newsletter: new papers open for review
Hi Max :) Thanks for adding your name to the review! Not quite sure I understand your question about other wiki sites that we could emulate? The research newsletter is pretty much single author per review so it's not really done in a 'wiki way' (e.g. by many authors producing a single review) other than using wiki software so I don't think anything is needed other than simply adding the byline next to the headline of the review as well as to at the top of the newsletter as per current practice. I'm thinking that these bylines wouldn't be needed for the snippets but rather for the more significant reviews. What do you think? Or were you asking about other methods of actually producing the signpost? Heather Ford Oxford Internet Institute http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk Doctoral Programme EthnographyMatters http://ethnographymatters.net | Oxford Digital Ethnography Group http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/?id=115 http://hblog.org | @hfordsa http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa On 25 February 2014 20:35, Klein,Max kle...@oclc.org wrote: Great idea Heather, I will add my name to my review. Do you know any other review sites that aggregate in a wiki way that we could emulate? Maximilian Klein Wikipedian in Residence, OCLC +17074787023 From: wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Tilman Bayer tba...@wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 9:16 AM To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities Cc: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics. Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Upcoming research newsletter: new papers open for review Hi Heather, that's a cool idea, and we have actually been considering something like this already. While the names of the reviewers are prominently displayed in the byline on top (and also, many readers of the Signpost and the newsletter are of course experienced in reading version histories), showing them next to each review might be make attribution easier. We just haven't found the time to implement it yet, like with many other things for the newsletter. You are welcome to figure out a suitable format and add these attributions in the upcoming issue, let's follow up offlist if more information is needed. On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 1:11 AM, Heather Ford hfor...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Dario, Tilman! I was wondering whether it would be helpful to add reviewer names/usernames to individual signpost reviews. I was struck while reading a review of a paper on Signpost recently that I felt like the reviewer was inserting some very opinionated statements about the article rather than the regular summaries. While I don't think that this is a problem necessarily (although I wish that they were a bit more informed about the topic and social science research in general), I do think it can be problematic to have these comments unattributed. Would be interested to hear what others think... Best, Heather. Heather Ford Oxford Internet Institute Doctoral Programme EthnographyMatters | Oxford Digital Ethnography Group http://hblog.org | @hfordsa On 25 February 2014 05:26, Tilman Bayer tba...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Max, yes, we're co-publishing with the Signpost, so the ultimate deadline is the Signpost's actual publication time. Its formal publication date is this Wednesday (the 26th) UTC, although actual publication might take place several hours or even a few days later. Thanks for signing up to review the Editor's Biases paper, I'm looking forward to reading your summary! On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Klein,Max kle...@oclc.org wrote: Dario, what's the timeframe for writing reviews so they can get into the signpost in time. 25th? Maximilian Klein Wikipedian in Residence, OCLC +17074787023 From: wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Dario Taraborelli dtarabore...@wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 8:11 AM To: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics.; Research into Wikimedia content and communities Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Upcoming research newsletter: new papers open forreview Hi everybody, with CSCW just concluded and conferences like CHI and WWW coming up we have a good set of papers to review for the February issue of the Research Newsletter [1] Please take a look at: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201402 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in reviewing. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome. Instead of contacting past contributors only, this month we're experimenting with a
[Wiki-research-l] [nan-l] 2014 ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'14) - Still accepting poster and data challenge submissions!
***Apologies for duplicate postings*** The paper deadline for the 2014 ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'14) has passed. We are thrilled to announce that we received 160 paper submissions! Paper notifications are scheduled for 13 April. We are, however, still accepting late-breaking extended abstract submissions (2 pages) for posters and lightning talk presentations, until 23 March. For details, see http://www.websci14.org/#call-for-papers-and-posters Also, the Data Visualization Challenge is accepting submissions through 15 April, and is offering $1000 in prizes! For details, see: http://websci14.org/#call-for-data-visualization-challenge. ACM Web Science 2014 will be held 23-26 June 2014 at Indiana University, Bloomington. Further information available at http://www.websci14.org/. For questions, contact webscience-14-organiz...@googlegroups.com mailto:webscience-14-organiz...@googlegroups.com. -- Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia Postdoctoral fellow Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research Indiana University ✎ 910 E 10th St ∙ Bloomington ∙ IN 47408 ☞ http://cnets.indiana.edu/ ✉ gciam...@indiana.edu ✆ 1-812-855-7261 ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikimedia monthly research showcase: Feb 26, 11.30 PT
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a catalog of all data that could possibly be available (for instance, the mw.session cookie), along with where it is logged, for how long, and where in various toolchains it gets stripped out? Another example someone pointed out today: our search logs. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/19/what-are-readers-looking-for-wikipedia-search-data-now-available/ Is there a sense of how many groups wanted this data? Was it possible to publish those logs without field #4, or was that simply not interesting? c. Extra thanks for having the showcases permanently up online! SJ ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
