Re: [Wiki-research-l] What instructors think about teaching with Wikipedia AFTER having tried it?

2019-02-10 Thread Piotr Konieczny
a dedicated person for this, and the current salaried staff of the Polish chapter does not have sufficient time to answer all requests. -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEJ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus On 2

[Wiki-research-l] Journal of Wiki Studies

2017-02-22 Thread Piotr Konieczny
I just got an email soliciting submissions to new, open source "Journal of Wiki Studies". I didn't see anything about this on this list yet, so... See http://wikistudies.org/index.php?journal=wikistudies=index -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKoni

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

2017-02-22 Thread Piotr Konieczny
I have a paper on why long-term contributors retire, but it is still in review. If you or anyone else would like a copy, do send me an email and I'll send you the draft. -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEJ

[Wiki-research-l] I intend to survey my students about Wikipedia assignments - can you suggest any refinements?

2016-09-29 Thread Piotr Konieczny
ask something else? Thank you for any comments, and do not hesitate to be critical - I'd much rather redo the survey now then after I send it out :) -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEJ http://en.wikipedia.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] A New Journal: Wiki Studies

2016-07-03 Thread Piotr Konieczny
part... :> -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEJ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus On 7/1/2016 14:56, Andrew Krizhanovsky wrote: Thank you for this good news about the journal! But I (as a us

Re: [Wiki-research-l] WMF Open Access Policy and Independent Researchers

2016-06-28 Thread Piotr Konieczny
that the OA movement hasn't made much inroads in their field (well, it is, to some degree, but that's going OT). Bottom line is that WMF grants should support research and its dissemination in what is seen as quality journals and related outlets, too. -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http

[Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia gender gap/inequality indicators

2015-11-20 Thread Piotr Konieczny
Outside the widely popular percentage of female editors on Wikipedia/WMF projects in general, and the percentage of Wikipedia biographical articles about females, is there anything else that has been used in literature / existing studies that you'd consider worth mentioning? Thanks, -- Piotr

Re: [Wiki-research-l] preelminary results from the Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index project - comments welcome

2015-01-16 Thread Piotr Konieczny
We are very happy to hear that your findings corroborate ours. What's your take on what we think is rather surprising high percentage of female bios for the South Asian/Confucian clusters? (i.e. non-Islamic Asia)? -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http

Re: [Wiki-research-l] preelminary results from the Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index project - comments welcome

2015-01-12 Thread Piotr Konieczny
/ministers. Through some of that may be, as you suggest, material for separate paper(s). We will see if we can report on any of those differences. If you know of any better data to compare ours too, please don't hesitate to suggest it! -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu

[Wiki-research-l] preelminary results from the Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index project - comments welcome

2015-01-10 Thread Piotr Konieczny
inclusive of female biographies than others (including the Western clusters). Are we seeing a data error, or something else - and if so, what? -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEJ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Drop in amount of wiki research?

2014-11-14 Thread Piotr Konieczny
How complete is wikipapers referata site? Could it be the case of lack of updates/maintenance/editor activity resulting in missing data? -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEJ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: [Wiki-research-l] List of student research assignment

2014-11-14 Thread Piotr Konieczny
I am also a bit confused about what you are asking, particularly with regards to the word thesis. Are you asking for a list of possible student assignments regarding Wikipedia? As in - topics they can write about? On Wikipedia? About Wikipedia? -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http

[Wiki-research-l] My new paper on Wikipedia and SOPA is out

2014-10-01 Thread Piotr Konieczny
of an international political opportunity structure in the form of worldwide awareness and protests, which in turn enabled a national political opportunity structure by informing and mobilizing American citizens. http://csi.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/09/26/0011392114551649 -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http

Re: [Wiki-research-l] discussion about wikipedia surveys

2014-07-29 Thread Piotr Konieczny
outstanding research (through a prize perhaps as Aaron suggested) All +1 -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEJ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus ___ Wiki

Re: [Wiki-research-l] discussion about wikipedia surveys

2014-07-29 Thread Piotr Konieczny
Wikipedia rules, our regular policies enforced by regular admin corp, plus in extreme cases potential shaming of unethical research through publicity/contacting unethical researcher departments should be enough. -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http

Re: [Wiki-research-l] discussion about wikipedia surveys

2014-07-29 Thread Piotr Konieczny
. -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEJ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus On 7/29/2014 22:42, Aaron Halfaker wrote: I don't believe there is any claim of authority for RCOM. At least I was not involved

Re: [Wiki-research-l] discussion about wikipedia surveys

2014-07-29 Thread Piotr Konieczny
That's extremely helpful, and I suggest copying it to the https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Committee page (that page needs many updates) -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEJ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: [Wiki-research-l] discussion about wikipedia surveys

2014-07-28 Thread Piotr Konieczny
ones, and that's it. In other words, we need to condolence and organize the sprawl mess that research pages have become, not to add to them. -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEJ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: [Wiki-research-l] discussion about wikipedia surveys

2014-07-28 Thread Piotr Konieczny
meaningful way (as in, imposing on them more than asking for few seconds-a minute or two each year, collectively) I believe this discussion is a storm in a teacup and, indeed, a waste of our time. -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations

Re: [Wiki-research-l] discussion about wikipedia surveys

2014-07-28 Thread Piotr Konieczny
or visible than it has been for the past few years; in fact I am predicting the continuation of its decline, as more and more people realize its a toothless and basically unnecessary body. -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations?user

Re: [Wiki-research-l] discussion about wikipedia surveys

2014-07-28 Thread Piotr Konieczny
be researched with regards to Wikipedia. So, at least as far as I am concerned, instead of looking like a best-practices-we-want-to-help body, it started to look like IRB/Godking-wannabe, offering nothing but promising to contribute to instruction/procedure creep. -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD

[Wiki-research-l] anyone at Yokohama's ISA conference would like to chat about Wikipedia?

2014-07-07 Thread Piotr Konieczny
Hey there, I wonder if anyone from our group is coming to Yokohama's ISA's conference next week, and would like to chat about Wikipedia research? -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEJ http://en.wikipedia.org

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Any studies on vandalism levels at Wikia?

2014-05-29 Thread Piotr Konieczny
That's intriguing, any idea why Wikia is being so unfriendly with that? Are they doing the usual corporation our data is ours/secrecy is good/we don't need your research as it may reveal things we don't want the world/competitors to know about shtick? -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http

[Wiki-research-l] Any studies on vandalism levels at Wikia?

2014-05-28 Thread Piotr Konieczny
Hill (CC-ed), which did not however focus on vandalism. Wikia (the largest wiki farm?) appears to be drastically under-researched... -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEJ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus

Re: [Wiki-research-l] WikiDashboard down - anyone knows how to contact people at PARC who developed it?

2014-02-04 Thread Piotr Konieczny
only just noticed this email (seems it got routed to my newsgroup folder which I don't check regularly). I looked into this again because of this on wiki message: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Piotrus#wikidashboard:_403:_User_account_expired Cheers, -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http

[Wiki-research-l] Estimate of vandal population

2013-09-29 Thread Piotr Konieczny
Hi everyone, Another question: do we have an estimate of a vandal population? I also asked this at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#How_many_editors_are_blocked_indefinitely.3F but so far no good estimates have been provided. -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Estimate of vandal population

2013-09-29 Thread Piotr Konieczny
to Wikipedia every given timeframe. About 100,000-120,000 editors make at least one edit to Wikipedia each month. If we knew how many are indef blocked in that period, that would be another useful estimate. -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http

Re: [Wiki-research-l] How to run a query about user contributions

2013-06-25 Thread Piotr Konieczny
This is just a note that the Dashboard us up and running again - thanks to all who helped! -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEJ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus On 6/1/2013 9:09 AM, Piotr Konieczny

Re: [Wiki-research-l] How to run a query about user contributions

2013-06-09 Thread Piotr Konieczny
Thank you for the update! -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEJ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus On 6/9/2013 10:30 PM, LB wrote: Hi Piotr, I've prepared the statements and could start running them

[Wiki-research-l] How to run a query about user contributions

2013-06-01 Thread Piotr Konieczny
non-CS person friendly, as two or so years ago when I last research this topic they were, IMHO, still beyond the means of a non-coder to deal with. Alternatively, I can consider paying someone to run a number of such queries for me, since I now even have a real research budget :) -- Piotr

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Any research on Wikimedia's Protest Against SOPA/Italian Government? Taiwanese need such research now.

2013-05-29 Thread Piotr Konieczny
/listinfo/wiki-research-l I have a paper on SOPA protests in review; email me if you'd like a draft paper copy. -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEJ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus

[Wiki-research-l] Reasons for editors leaving Wikipedia or becoming less active

2013-04-17 Thread Piotr Konieczny
Other than data from Wikipedia Editor Survey 2011, what has been published on this topic? Thanks, -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEJ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editor retention and meetups?

2012-11-19 Thread Piotr Konieczny
in the WikiProject Pittsburgh, all to no avail. I am still at a loss to try to explain why we failed (i.e. why the meetups failed to contribute to editor retention). -- Piotr Konieczny To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat. --Józef Pilsudski On 11

[Wiki-research-l] is there any research supporting list-defined references?

2012-11-19 Thread Piotr Konieczny
tend to increase the article size by about 10%. Is there any research on how an increase in article size affects page load times, and editing window lag? -- Piotr Konieczny To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat. --Józef Pilsudski

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki Research Jounal…

2012-11-02 Thread Piotr Konieczny
- MediaWiki has a pdf-export option (wikibook), and it is a standard feature in Open/Libre Office, too. -- Piotr Konieczny On 11/2/2012 5:58 AM, Dariusz Jemielniak wrote: unfortunately, if you want to make impact in the Academia, the approach of all we need is a wiki will not work. Even the most avid

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki Research Jounal…

2012-11-02 Thread Piotr Konieczny
, with the understanding that the non-anonymous reviews are not counted as official reviews, for the purpose of double-blind peer review / indices assessment. -- Piotr Konieczny To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat. --Józef Pilsudski On 11/2/2012 8

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki Research Jounal…

2012-11-01 Thread Piotr Konieczny
. -- Piotr Konieczny To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat. --Józef Pilsudski On 11/1/2012 2:21 PM, Aaron Halfaker wrote: I'd suggest focusing on the area of wiki studies, nothing more and nothing less. I don't think that this is a good

[Wiki-research-l] Minor stats on Wikipedia

2012-10-31 Thread Piotr Konieczny
for less than a year * of Wikipedians who have been registered for less than a month The data does not have to be current. -- Piotr Konieczny To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat. --Józef Pilsudski

Re: [Wiki-research-l] War of 1812 and all that

2012-10-31 Thread Piotr Konieczny
who live in places where learning English is difficult; my scorn concerns only languages which don't classify under these criteria, and even there I acknowledge the existence of generational digital/language divide issues. -- Piotr Konieczny To be defeated and not submit, is victory

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Minor stats on Wikipedia

2012-10-31 Thread Piotr Konieczny
On 10/31/2012 6:34 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Piotr Konieczny, 31/10/2012 23:08: Would anyone have/know where to find any of the following estimates for * of Wikipedians with a userpage http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm#namespaces gives you the number of pages

Re: [Wiki-research-l] War of 1812 and all that

2012-10-31 Thread Piotr Konieczny
that is your average article, copyedit/expand/reference it, give it a uniform style, and move it towards the Wikipedia peer review procedures (that most anons don't even know exists). -- Piotr Konieczny To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels

Re: [Wiki-research-l] War of 1812 and all that

2012-10-30 Thread Piotr Konieczny
for a current GA review, would fail, due to not meeting criteria and the primary author being unreachable to address the issues raised). -- Piotr Konieczny To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat. --Józef Pilsudski On 10/29/2012 4:30 PM, Laura Hale

Re: [Wiki-research-l] War of 1812 and all that

2012-10-29 Thread Piotr Konieczny
many high quality edits to a large number of other articles). -- Piotr Konieczny To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat. --Józef Pilsudski On 10/29/2012 12:49 PM, Felipe Ortega wrote: - Mensaje original - De: Piotr Konieczny

Re: [Wiki-research-l] War of 1812 and all that

2012-10-28 Thread Piotr Konieczny
infrastructure, was and is being done by a small group of very dedicated people. -- Piotr Konieczny To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat. --Józef Pilsudski On 10/28/2012 5:57 PM, Kerry Raymond wrote: My comments on the top editors came from

[Wiki-research-l] wikipedia articles and google rank

2012-10-24 Thread Piotr Konieczny
front. -- Piotr Konieczny ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Research areas

2012-10-04 Thread Piotr Konieczny
this, you should aim for keywords as categories. A dynamic listing like that may eventually have a chance of being up to date, and exhaustive. -- Piotr Konieczny On 10/4/2012 2:57 PM, Ziko van Dijk wrote: Hello, Great list; I will have a closer look later. Sometimes I have the impression

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Open-Access journals for papers about wikis

2012-09-16 Thread Piotr Konieczny
, and such, but this is not really needed...). -- Piotr Konieczny On 9/16/2012 4:12 AM, emijrp wrote: 2012/9/15 Kerry Raymond kerry.raym...@gmail.com mailto:kerry.raym...@gmail.com To establish a journal (of any kind), you need a: * Topic * A community to read, write, review

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Open-Access journals for papers about wikis

2012-09-14 Thread Piotr Konieczny
So what does it take to get a journal indexed in ISI? -- Piotr Konieczny On 9/14/2012 11:33 AM, Jodi Schneider wrote: Getting First Monday indexed in ISI would be a good step. I have helped start an open access journal before [1] so I'd be happy to give advice. But generally, I don't think

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Open-Access journals for papers about wikis

2012-09-14 Thread Piotr Konieczny
This has been proposed before, and I do support it - I think a good case can be made that there is a field in Wikipedia studies (or on a larger scale, wiki studies) - yet there is no dedicated journal. This needs to change. -- Piotr Konieczny On 9/14/2012 11:00 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: I've

Re: [Wiki-research-l] WMF to endorse a petition to the White House mandate free access to publicly funded research

2012-05-25 Thread Piotr Konieczny
Excellent! -- Piotr Konieczny To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat. --Józef Pilsudski On 5/24/2012 3:26 PM, Dario Taraborelli wrote: Hi everybody, I wanted to give you the heads up that the Wikimedia Foundation is planning

Re: [Wiki-research-l] real scholarship is expensive

2012-05-22 Thread Piotr Konieczny
of $3.2 billion Think a moment about where that money is coming from, and where is it going... -- Piotr Konieczny To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat. --Józef Pilsudski On 5/22/2012 3:13 PM, Richard Jensen wrote: There seems

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Access2research petition

2012-05-22 Thread Piotr Konieczny
a profit margin of 36% on revenues of $3.2 billion. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/science/researchers-boycott-elsevier-journal-publisher.html?_r=1 -- Piotr Konieczny To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat. --Józef Pilsudski

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Access2research petition

2012-05-22 Thread Piotr Konieczny
is freely available online. This can be done, just like many other free things were created in cyberspace (Linux, Wikipedia, many open content journals...). -- Piotr Konieczny To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat. --Józef Pilsudski On 5/22

Re: [Wiki-research-l] real scholarship is expensive

2012-05-22 Thread Piotr Konieczny
. With regard to your medical analogy, I have one word for you: generics. (At least, patents last 20 years, scholarly knowledge is copyrighted and locked for about a century...). -- Piotr Konieczny To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat. --Józef

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Are there any stats on activity of editors compared to the population?

2012-05-20 Thread Piotr Konieczny
Thank you both, those are very useful to know about. -- Piotr Konieczny To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat. --Józef Pilsudski On 5/17/2012 6:41 PM, Dario Taraborelli wrote: Piotr, have you seen this: https://wiki.toolserver.org

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Are there any stats on activity of editors compared to the population?

2012-05-16 Thread Piotr Konieczny
, or reviewing a GA) for such assistance :) -- Piotr Konieczny To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat. --Józef Pilsudski On 5/10/2012 2:29 PM, Dario Taraborelli wrote: Piotr, if you are interested in getting fresh figures about lifetime edit

[Wiki-research-l] Are there any stats on activity of editors compared to the population?

2012-05-09 Thread Piotr Konieczny
... Incidentally, if anybody has those numbers, in addition to replying here feel free to add the information and/or source the one present at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians Thanks, -- Piotr Konieczny PhD Candidate Dept of Sociology Uni of Pittsburgh http

Re: [Wiki-research-l] WikiPapers has now over 1, 000 publications - why WikiLit?

2012-05-07 Thread Piotr Konieczny
That's a useful FAQ. May I suggest adding it as a link from the main page of your wiki? I'd do it myself, but the explanation of the email is @ by you unless you release it, so... :) -- Piotr Konieczny To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels

Re: [Wiki-research-l] WikiPapers has now over 1,000 publications

2012-05-01 Thread Piotr Konieczny
Can somebody tell me why we have both the http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page and http://wikilit.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page ? -- Piotr Konieczny PhD Candidate Dept of Sociology Uni of Pittsburgh http://pittsburgh.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: [Wiki-research-l] how to query WIkipedia for a list of people who died in a given year

2011-12-24 Thread Piotr Konieczny
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Persondata could be of use. -- Piotr Konieczny PhD Candidate Dept of Sociology Uni of Pittsburgh http://pittsburgh.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Summary of findings from WMF Summer of Research program now available

2011-09-12 Thread Piotr Konieczny
/Wikipedia_interwiki_and_specialized_knowledge_test) suggest Wikipedia is not even a tenth-complete at this point (just talking about existing articles, and not their quality). -- Piotr Konieczny PhD Candidate Dept of Sociology Uni of Pittsburgh http://pittsburgh.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny/ http

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikimedia Research Newsletter launched

2011-09-03 Thread Piotr Konieczny
[3] and follows the publication of two research updates in the Signpost, see also last month's announcement on this list [4]. Excellent initiative! -- Piotr Konieczny PhD Candidate Dept of Sociology Uni of Pittsburgh http://pittsburgh.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny/ http://en.wikipedia.org

[Wiki-research-l] Is use of diacritics common?

2011-06-21 Thread Piotr Konieczny
data on that, or if somebody could create and run some form of query on the database (as I don't code, this is unfortunately beyond my capabilities). -- Piotr Konieczny PhD Candidate Dept of Sociology Uni of Pittsburgh http://pittsburgh.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-16 Thread Piotr Konieczny
to select feed from only some wikis (for example, En Wikipedia only, or Pl Wikipedia only). -- Piotr Konieczny PhD Candidate Dept of Sociology Uni of Pittsburgh http://pittsburgh.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Summaries of recent Wikipedia research

2011-06-10 Thread Piotr Konieczny
John Vandenberg wrote: Thank you HaeB for this valuable addition to the signpost. Seconded. Ideally, new papers are going to be announced on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academic_studies_of_Wikipedia -- Piotr Konieczny To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Historical Wikipedia edits on excel files

2011-05-17 Thread Piotr Konieczny
be happy to share them. Perhaps a public distribution on Google Docs would allow interested researches to do so, wiki-style? -- Piotr Konieczny PhD Candidate Dept of Sociology Uni of Pittsburgh To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Student Summaries?

2011-04-25 Thread Piotr Konieczny
Joseph Reagle wrote: Before getting to particulars, is there some other venue where this discussion would be more appropriate? The new https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education perhaps? -- Piotr Konieczny To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest

Re: [Wiki-research-l] seeking admins to supervise an experiment in political discourse

2011-03-25 Thread Piotr Konieczny
do they intend to deal with potential trouble, and what kind of remedies they use when they are imposing sanctions. -- Piotr Konieczny To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat. --Józef Pilsudski

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Request to verify articles for Wikipedia literature review

2011-03-19 Thread Piotr Konieczny
inform us of: I see you found three out of my four papers, I will add the missing one : A while ago I started a draft of a paper in which I attempted to review the Wikipedia research up to 2007. I never finished it, but perhaps you'd find it of use. Let me know if you'd like a copy. -- Piotr

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editor Trends Study results published

2011-03-11 Thread Piotr Konieczny
not half-bad, neither. Glad to see that the doomsday scenarios are not supported by the data... -- Piotr Konieczny To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat. --Józef Pilsudski ___ Wiki

Re: [Wiki-research-l] ProveIt - Wikipedia references made easy

2010-12-02 Thread Piotr Konieczny
term (it is a great tool, but one I will not need for most of my edits). It would be nice if the window was draggable and would remember its position. Great job! -- Piotr Konieczny To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat. --Józef

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editor Trends Study - Improving the tool

2010-11-09 Thread Piotr Konieczny
and no graphical user interface, many would-be users will not be able to use it * ditto for things like Python and Subversion (I never even heard of the latter...). I assume that having a GUI is planned in some foreseeable future? -- Piotr Konieczny To be defeated and not submit, is victory

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Mining Wikipedia public data notes. Do we want to document research methods tools?

2010-07-13 Thread Piotr Konieczny
Some time ago - around 2007/2008 - I collected related tools at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Researching_Wikipedia I missed the WikiSym session, but I think merging the notes from it with that page would be useful. -- Piotr Konieczny Jodi Schneider wrote: We

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Analyses of Wikipedia quality

2010-05-11 Thread Piotr Konieczny
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academic_studies_of_Wikipedia -- Piotr Konieczny PhD Candidate Dept of Sociology Uni of Pittsburgh To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat. --Józef Piłsudski ___ Wiki

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia Research policy (now accepted)

2010-04-07 Thread Piotr Konieczny
/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:Subject_Recruitment_Approvals_Group -- Piotr Konieczny To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat. --Józef Piłsudski ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Java API for reading Wikipedia XML dumps

2009-11-24 Thread Piotr Konieczny
by people who don't know what a DOM parser or SAX interface is? -- Piotr Konieczny The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in reality, not in theory. ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wiki-research-l] How many contributions are unproductive?

2009-11-08 Thread Piotr Konieczny
for vandalism: as others pointed out here, anything more complex that obvious vandalism may in fact be productive. Of course, this is erring on the side of productivity (just like discarding all revert edits is erring of the side of unproductivity - WP:BRD and so on...). -- Piotr Konieczny

[Wiki-research-l] 2 important studies

2009-04-20 Thread Piotr Konieczny
/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-04-20/News_and_notes#Preliminary%20results%20from%20the%20UNU%20merit%20survey http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/a/a7/Wikipedia_General_Survey-Overview_0.3.9.pdf -- Piotr Konieczny The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in reality, not in theory

Re: [Wiki-research-l] 150, 000 volunteers... and 8 milion vandal sock accounts?

2008-12-25 Thread Piotr Konieczny
Matthew Flaschen wrote: I'm not at all clear how you arrived at the figure 8 millions vandal sockpuppet accounts, nor what you mean by it. However, it doesn't follow from the figures you've cited. Rather, I believe most of the 8.5 million user accounts are simply inactive. Someone made an

Re: [Wiki-research-l] soliciting participants for Wikipedia studies

2008-11-19 Thread Piotr Konieczny
it. Is asking for a survey spamming? That's a good question. If we could raise it on a community page and get a consensus that it is not, than we could potentially create a bot that could be fed a survey and would deliver it to x random users via the above page. -- Piotr Konieczny The problem

[Wiki-research-l] Any wiki researches present during the American Sociological Conference this weekend in Boston?

2008-07-27 Thread Piotr Konieczny
American Sociological Conference will have its 2008 conference in Boston on August 1-4th. I wonder if any wikipedia/wiki researchers with a sociological bent will be there? Perhaps we could organize a lunch or some other form of impromptu meeting... -- Piotr Konieczny The problem about

Re: [Wiki-research-l] thesis: automatically building a multilingual thesaurus from wikipedia

2008-05-30 Thread Piotr Konieczny
Nice job, please add it to WP:ACST so it can be known to a wider audience. -- Prokonsul Piotrus aka Piotr Konieczny ||| __ __ I=I__|_|I__I= Lennier, get us the hell out of here. ||| Initiating 'getting the hell out of here' maneuver

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Dissertation: In Good Faith

2008-04-02 Thread Piotr Konieczny
Aude wrote: Congratulations! Very interesting to read over the first chapter. If possible, it would be helpful to look over the pdf. Indeed. May I suggest adding the direct link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ACST#Thesis ? -- Piotr Konieczny The problem about Wikipedia

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikis as a tool for fostering emergence of communities

2007-08-29 Thread Piotr Konieczny
at this kind of impact of wikis? Check: WP:ACST for a list of articles with abstracts. There should be a few suitable. -- Piotr Konieczny The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in reality, not in theory. ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list