Re: [Wiki-research-l] Building tools, services and datasets that respect deleted and suppressed revisions

2018-06-11 Thread Pine W
Hi Research-l, I'm bumping this question because apparently no one has answered yet, and I think that it's a good question that should get an answer. I would like for third-party researchers who are trying to align their work with Wikimedia policies and practices in their research to get the

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Elicit New Editor Interest

2018-06-11 Thread Leila Zia
Hi Pine, On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 8:32 PM Pine W wrote: > > Hi Leila, > > This looks interesting. I have a few questions. > > 1. Why are users being asked for their email addresses? This creates > privacy concerns regarding the handling of PII. I think that using > usernames would be preferable.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Elicit New Editor Interest

2018-06-11 Thread Pine W
Hi Leila, This looks interesting. I have a few questions. 1. Why are users being asked for their email addresses? This creates privacy concerns regarding the handling of PII. I think that using usernames would be preferable. 2. I'm unclear on whether the plan is to invite newbies to contact

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Building tools, services and datasets that respect deleted and suppressed revisions

2018-06-11 Thread Leila Zia
Hi Pine, thanks for the ping. I meant to send an update email but forgot. :) Yiqing: Patrick Earley and I discussed this with Lucas on Thursday. Give us a little bit of time to figure this out, I know it's priority for Patrick et al. There is no immediate pointer that we can think of and it needs

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Elicit New Editor Interest

2018-06-11 Thread Pine W
Hi Leila, Thanks for the explanation. Further down the road, I hope that we can help newbies with onboarding by improving the ease of use of talk pages, and by automatically presenting them with more helpful resources (like links to the ENWP Teahouse or its equivalents on other wikis), and

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Building tools, services and datasets that respect deleted and suppressed revisions

2018-06-11 Thread Pine W
Thank you, Leila and Patrick. :) Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 8:33 PM, Leila Zia wrote: > Hi Pine, thanks for the ping. I meant to send an update email but forgot. > :) > > Yiqing: Patrick Earley and I discussed this with Lucas on Thursday. > Give

[Wiki-research-l] Open position - Research Scientist

2018-06-11 Thread Leila Zia
[apologies for cross-posting.] Hi all, The Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation has opened a Research Scientist position. Please review the job description at https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/1173279?gh_src=a41847991 , apply if you're interested or share it with colleagues and

[Wiki-research-l] Elicit New Editor Interest

2018-06-11 Thread Leila Zia
Hi all, We just added a new formal collaboration with Ramtin Yazdanian from EPFL to develop, design and test models that can help us learn about New Editor Interests. While the applications of these models are numerous, we expect to use them at least in the line of research in addressing