Re: [Wiki-research-l] Altmetric.com now tracks Wikipedia citations

2015-02-06 Thread James Salsman
Laura Hale wrote: ... [Avoiding SEO spamming is] a Wikipedia thing, by putting a rel=nofollow class=external text in the article source code Of the mirrors that come and go from time to time, it always seems to be about even odds as to whether they keep rel=nofollow in external and

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: $55 million raised in 2014

2015-01-03 Thread James Salsman
Han-Teng Liao wrote: ... I hope that the Wikimedia foundation budget grows in proportion with the number of Internet users, and the average donations remains the same (inflation-adjusted). Do you think donations will grow in proportion to the median income of internet users? That measure is

[Wiki-research-l] Delph-in LOGON vs. traditional sentence complexity for isolating confusing passages

2015-03-20 Thread James Salsman
Has anyone studied comparing the use of http://erg.delph-in.net/logon with traditional measures of text reading level for locating potentially confusing sentences? ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wiki-research-l] identity disclosure hurt the reliability of review systems, but not necessarily efforts provision

2015-08-12 Thread James Salsman
Jonathan, I am so sorry http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2015/e-Biz/GeneralPresentations/11/ is behind a paywall. It wasn't when I first found it, and that version is miles away from me at the moment. It describes a truly fascinating empirical simulation laboratory participation experiment, which

Re: [Wiki-research-l] The Wikimedia Research Newsletter 5(7) is out

2015-08-04 Thread James Salsman
To answer your point about basic categorisation of the nature of edits I have two words for you: Revision Scoring As Adam Wight pointed out at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Revision_scoring_as_a_service#Perpetuating_bias the Mediawiki system doesn't allow the editor to

Re: [Wiki-research-l] identity disclosure hurt the reliability of review systems, but not necessarily efforts provision

2015-08-13 Thread James Salsman
Kerry Raymond wrote: ... we could use big data to try to pro-actively find patterns of undesirable behaviour I agree, including with the specific examples given, most if not all of which could be implemented within a general accuracy review system. Please consider the three-level (actually

[Wiki-research-l] identity disclosure hurt the reliability of review systems, but not necessarily efforts provision

2015-08-12 Thread James Salsman
Has anyone replicated the experiment described in http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2015/e-Biz/GeneralPresentations/11/ yet? ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia live monitor for identifying breaking news on Wikipedia

2015-07-19 Thread James Salsman
Pine wrote: ... The Wikipedia live monitor tool was designed by Thomas Steiner ... this is the first that I can recall seeing it If you like WLM you will love the Wikipedia Natural Disaster Monitor: http://disaster-monitor.herokuapp.com/ http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1268/paper15.pdf

[Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia Natural Disaster Monitor (was Re: Wikipedia live monitor for identifying breaking news on Wikipedia)

2015-07-19 Thread James Salsman
P.S. Would someone on Facebook please ask https://www.facebook.com/EarthWindMap if they would consider integrating http://earth.nullschool.net with Wikipedia Natural Disaster Monitor? The Wikipedia live monitor tool was designed by Thomas Steiner ... this is the first that I can recall seeing it

Re: [Wiki-research-l] WMF initiative: Community Capacity Development

2015-08-27 Thread James Salsman
That reminds me, did en:User:Dispenser ever get the 20 terabytes he wanted for a reflinks cache? The Foundation should be hosting it, not a volunteer, because the Foundation can easily afford to defend the (what I believe is very clearly) fair use but if a volunteer has to it could ruin multiple

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

2016-06-29 Thread James Salsman
Max, this advise is very good: > On 6/29/2016 11:01, Stuart A. Yeates wrote: > > There are many open access journals which do not charge fees or any > description. See http://www.opendoar.org/ or talk to a friendly > librarian to find a journal that meets your needs. Please see also Table 5 on

[Wiki-research-l] Institutional review board exceptions in the United States

2016-08-15 Thread James Salsman
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_review_board#Exceptions "Research ... involving the study of instructional strategies or effectiveness of various techniques [and] curricula ... [or] intended to assess the performance or effectiveness of public benefit or service programs"

[Wiki-research-l] measuring time to proofread wikipedias and the Making Work Pay Tax Credit

2016-09-17 Thread James Salsman
I am pleased to announce that, thanks to Google Summer of Code student Priyanka Mandikal, the project for the Accuracy Review of Wikipedias project has delivered a working demonstration of open source code and data available here: https://github.com/priyankamandikal/arowf/ Please try it out at:

[Wiki-research-l] article of note

2016-10-03 Thread James Salsman
I enjoyed https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=4061737011161182722=en_sdt=0,6 CELL (BIOLOGY)-WIKIPEDIA LEARNING PERFORMANCE IN RELATION TO COGNITIVE STYLES, LEARNING STYLES, AND SCIENCE ABILITY OF STUDENTS: A HIERARCHICAL MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS "It is resulted that Wikipedia

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] "Can Wikipedia save the internet?": Wikipedia and political neutrality

2016-11-05 Thread James Salsman
tical candidates. I think statistics would show a > relationship between news mentions and editing conflict, and, also, the > amount of profit associated with marketing of a product. > > Fred > > > On Wed, 2 Nov 2016 12:52:58 -0600 > James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Publicpolicy] supporting Wikipedia citations as formal scholarly reputation in tenure committees

2016-11-17 Thread James Salsman
ewhere else (or do you have the full reference so I can > search it)? > > Thanks, > Dario > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 9:43 PM, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Can anyone familiar with European Commission procedure please explain >>

[Wiki-research-l] supporting Wikipedia citations as formal scholarly reputation in tenure committees

2016-10-31 Thread James Salsman
Can anyone familiar with European Commission procedure please explain how to support the Wikipedia-associated proposals in [1] based on the statistics in [2] please? Very recent publications such as [3] in Nature along with what appears to be a relatively sudden groundswell of frankness and

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] "Can Wikipedia save the internet?": Wikipedia and political neutrality

2016-11-02 Thread James Salsman
Fred and Craig, Do you think a comparison of the effects of bias in individual candidates' articles to the effects systemic bias towards trickle-down austerity economics and the social implications thereof in light of the WP:MEDRS-grade source at http://talknicer.com/ehip.pdf might produce a

Re: [Wiki-research-l] crowdsource question

2016-12-01 Thread James Salsman
included along with companies. 2016-12-01 4:12 GMT+01:00 James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com>: > > Who, if anyone, is examining crowdsource survey > questions such as, "Look at the text added or > removed in this edit to [Company]'s Wikipedia > article. Was the editor

[Wiki-research-l] crowdsource question

2016-11-30 Thread James Salsman
Who, if anyone, is examining crowdsource survey questions such as, "Look at the text added or removed in this edit to [Company]'s Wikipedia article. Was the editor saying [ ] good things, [ ] bad things, or [ ] was neutral about [Company]'s financial prospects?"? Best regards, Jim

[Wiki-research-l] please critique my grant application

2017-03-12 Thread James Salsman
Please critique and endorse my grant application, especially after Doc James replaces his name as the applicant so I can be the adviser and my Google Summer of Code co-mentor and student can be co-grantees: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Intelligibility_Transcriptions Thank you!

Re: [Wiki-research-l] research trying to influence real-world outcomes by editing Wikipedia

2017-07-17 Thread James Salsman
A followup by the same authors reviewed in today's Signpost reverses their opinion on causality, asserting that I improvements to articles about places increases tourism: http://marit.hinnosaar.net/wikipediamatters.pdf On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 3:52 PM, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com>

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: research trying to influence real-world outcomes by editing Wikipedia

2017-07-26 Thread James Salsman
Is there any other research studying whether editing wikipedia(s) produces real-world changes? -- Forwarded message -- From: James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 6:10 PM Subject: Re: research trying to influence real-world outcomes by editing Wik

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia Education] Essay about fake news, algorithms, social bots, and more

2017-05-14 Thread James Salsman
that content > themselves or flag it for review by more experienced editors. > > Pine > > > On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 5:53 AM, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Pine wrote: >> > >> > I'm finding it encouraging to see that a number of researc

[Wiki-research-l] link rot

2017-06-26 Thread James Salsman
Is anyone studying the rate at which external links become unavailable on Wikipedia projects? I just did a quick tally and less than 40% of the external links cited in the introductions of L1-vital enwiki health and social science articles I sampled were good, and that's only counting those which

[Wiki-research-l] research trying to influence real-world outcomes by editing Wikipedia

2017-05-29 Thread James Salsman
This was in the recent Research Newsletter: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/127472/1/847290360.pdf They found a correlation between the length of articles about tourist destinations and the number of tourists visiting them. They tried to influence other destinations by adding content and

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 144, Issue 15

2017-08-24 Thread James Salsman
I have to recuse myself from the reviews until further notice because I am publishing on the topic: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsalsman/featex/master/Spoken-English-Intelligibility-Remediation.pdf On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 8:00 PM, wrote: > Send

[Wiki-research-l] share research without paywalls or requests for personal information?

2017-08-24 Thread James Salsman
information? On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 9:04 PM, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have to recuse myself from the reviews until further notice because > I am publishing on the topic: > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsalsman/featex/master/Spoken-English-Intelligibility-Remediation

Re: [Wiki-research-l] feedback appreciated

2017-08-26 Thread James Salsman
Dr. Heather Ford wrote: >... You may want to read Angele Christin's paper that just came > out in Big Data and Society that complicates the notion of judges > accepting algorithmic reasoning wholesale in making decisions. > > http://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SPgDYyisV8mAJn4fm7Xi/full I am in

Re: [Wiki-research-l] feedback appreciated

2017-08-27 Thread James Salsman
>... what does this post have to do with wikis? FRSbot is a very prominent bot on Wikipedia crucial to obtaining neutral feedback for less-prominent RFCs, but it doesn't work the way people think it does, or the way it's authors have implied it does, or the way it should if it was going to be

Re: [Wiki-research-l] December 2017 Research Showcase

2017-12-12 Thread James Salsman
Leila and Lani, The Article Expansion Recommendation System is an absolutely spectacular project, which will clearly very substantially improve the encyclopedia in ways that perhaps no other single effort has come near to being able, so I can't wait to learn more about it. But I might not be able

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Education] Evaluation report on Wikipedia Fellows pilot

2018-05-22 Thread James Salsman
ellows pilot To: jsals...@gmail.com Message rejected by filter rule match -- Forwarded message -- From: James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> To: Wikimedia Education <educat...@lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Bcc: Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 17:50:48 -0600 Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Edu

Re: [Wiki-research-l] New policy about performing research on English WikipediaWiki-research-l Digest, Vol 149, Issue 1

2018-01-03 Thread James Salsman
Hi Jonathan, Can you please give a concrete example of what, for example, the http://ide.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/SSRN-id3039505.pdf researchers would have had to do differently under this new policy? Best regards, Jim > Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 15:29:03 -0800 > From: Jonathan

[Wiki-research-l] please review this open peer review medical article; article request

2018-02-02 Thread James Salsman
Please consider reviewing this article: http://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/9683 If you have never peer reviewed a medical literature review, this is your chance. If you know M.D.s with some spare time, please ask them to review it, too. Please see also: https://imgur.com/gallery/OtLil Finally,

[Wiki-research-l] a video from the Foundation's Research Showcase

2018-06-19 Thread James Salsman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1sSzKKoHB8 Best regards, Jim ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

[Wiki-research-l] Towards an inclusive digital literacy framework for digital India

2018-07-28 Thread James Salsman
Of considerable interest: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326141291_Towards_an_inclusive_digital_literacy_framework_for_digital_India "Policy makers can use this transformational model to extend the reach and effectiveness of Digital Inclusion through the last mile enhancing existing

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki-research-l] Country (culture...) as a factor in contributing to collective intelligence projects

2018-07-24 Thread James Salsman
> Why do you think different language Wikipedia's have different > sizes, outside of the popularity of a given language? Piotr, if you model organic editing production with a Poisson distribution, which is reasonable for a first approximation, 3x+ disparities are just natural for the same

[Wiki-research-l] San Francisco union rules

2018-01-24 Thread James Salsman
> you can't have volunteer resources run the video > equipment for you. You need a professional crew. Is there a more specific description of the specific authority, wording, and legislative intent for this, please? ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list

Re: [Wiki-research-l] bias relative to accuracy or populist centrism? (was re: The complete program of Wiki Workshop 2018 is live)

2018-04-18 Thread James Salsman
ir political opinions and to take this background > information into account when creating ground truth data. > > Best regards, > Christoph > > > > Am 4/18/2018 um 2:22 PM schrieb James Salsman: >>> >>> ... Accepted papers >>> Christoph Hube

[Wiki-research-l] bias relative to accuracy or populist centrism? (was re: The complete program of Wiki Workshop 2018 is live)

2018-04-18 Thread James Salsman
reflecting the propaganda-influenced whims of the populist center? Sincerely, James Salsman [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economics=prev=511580566 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Economics/Archive_7#Tax_cut_claim_in_Fiscal_policy_section [3] http://talknic

[Wiki-research-l] weekly periodicity mode

2018-04-23 Thread James Salsman
[Crossposting to Research and Analytics lists] Most Wikipedia articles with a weekly periodicity show more pageviews on a typical weekday than a weekend. Some articles associated with weekends (e.g. articles associated with a variety of hobbies) will show relatively fewer pave views on weekdays.

[Wiki-research-l] Growing Wikipedia Across Languages via Recommendation

2018-03-27 Thread James Salsman
Leila, since https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.03235.pdf worked so well, is it going to be implemented widely, or is it shelved? Does it need advocates? ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wiki-research-l] research on topic coverage?

2018-03-24 Thread James Salsman
Amy Bruckman wrote: > I was just re-reading Halavais & Lackaff’s 2008 paper on topic coverage in > the English Wikipedia. > Has anyone redone or extended that analysis more recently? I've been keeping track of the length articles on

[Wiki-research-l] please hire a CTO who wants to protect reader privacy

2019-03-23 Thread James Salsman
I noticed just now that the Foundation is soliciting applications for a new CTO: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6515003866130505729 Can we please hire a CTO who would prefer to protect reader privacy above the interests of any State or non-state actors, whether they have

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tech Talk livestream chat transcript (was Re: [Wikimedia Technical Talks] Data and Decision Science at Wikimedia with Kate Zimmerman, 26 February 2020 @ 6PM UTC)

2020-02-26 Thread James Salsman
I note now that the full chat transcript has been restored; thank you. I am still interested in the answer to the question. Sincerely, Jim On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 10:46 AM James Salsman wrote: > > Just now I asked the following question on the Technical Talk > livestream

[Wiki-research-l] Tech Talk livestream chat transcript (was Re: [Wikimedia Technical Talks] Data and Decision Science at Wikimedia with Kate Zimmerman, 26 February 2020 @ 6PM UTC)

2020-02-26 Thread James Salsman
est at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ0NPhT-fsE=25m40s 10:20 AM: Does the Foundation still share that identifying information with research affiliates? If so, how many are them world-wide; if not, when did sharing this information stop? 10:25 AM: MediaWiki @James Salsman I see your question, but d

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Availability of hourly pagecounts files

2020-01-11 Thread James Salsman
That's fascinating, John; thank you. I'm copying this to wiki-research-l and Fabian Suchanek, who gave the first part of the Research Showcase last month. What do you like for coding stories? https://quanteda.io/reference/dfm.html ? Sentiment is hard because errors are often 180 degrees away from

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 173, Issue 5

2020-01-06 Thread James Salsman
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ActiveUsers > Says about 2,570 active users on meta in the past 30 days, compared to about 70,000 in unique editors on all projects? 3.7%? ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [RCom-l] Fwd: Actual Inactive Wikipedia administrator survey (swalling at wikimedia.org)

2012-02-13 Thread James Salsman
-- Forwarded message -- From: James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:19 AM Subject: Re: [RCom-l] Fwd: Actual Inactive Wikipedia administrator survey (swalling at wikimedia.org) To: rco...@lists.wikimedia.org On 12 February 2012, Steven Walling wrote: I

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Contact details

2012-02-14 Thread James Salsman
Dario, I have replied at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:FAQ Sincerely, James Salsman On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Dario Taraborelli dtarabore...@wikimedia.org wrote: James, I replied here so other RCom members can chime in  (rcom-l is publicly indexed but members-only

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikitrends

2012-02-21 Thread James Salsman
Ed, Please consider asking Johan Gunnarsson johan.gunnars...@gmail.com to collaborate with you. He did something similar (with the same name) in 2008 which you can see at: http://toolserver.org/~johang/wikitrends Best regards, James Salsman Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:01:28 -0500 From: Ed

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Motivations to Contribute to Wikipedia

2012-03-19 Thread James Salsman
the community thinks of this new requirement. Sincerely, James Salsman ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Motivations to Contribute to Wikipedia

2012-03-19 Thread James Salsman
sufficiently. Sincerely, James Salsman ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Foundation-l] Motivations to Contribute to Wikipedia

2012-03-19 Thread James Salsman
at the Wikimedia Foundation? Sincerely, James Salsman ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

[Wiki-research-l] sustainability of conferences (was Re: Wiki Research Journal?)

2012-11-04 Thread James Salsman
... WikiSym is changing is for the same reason. People are not going to the conference! I think the attendance has been below 100 for some time now. That's not a sustainable number for the amount of work that goes into organizing a conference. I would like to see an honest comparison of,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] *** Extended deadline *** CfP: 4th International Workshop on Model-driven Approaches for Simulation Engineering part of the Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation (SCS Sp

2013-10-28 Thread James Salsman
Dear Drs. Gianni and Cuccuru: Are you aware that you posted a solicitation of papers for publication in non-open access journals to wiki-research-l? Ref.: http://www.scs.org/publications Would you please find a publisher adhering to the open access principles? Thank you. Regards, James Salsman

[Wiki-research-l] Principal component analysis for multivariate testing

2013-11-01 Thread James Salsman
. Best regards, James Salsman [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivariate_analysis [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_component_analysis [3] http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/alkes-price/software/ [4] http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/alkes-price/files/2013/08/EIG5.0.1.tar.gz

[Wiki-research-l] gastroenterology and hepatology articles (was Re: Fwd: the Helsinki Times evaluates...)

2013-12-07 Thread James Salsman
Has there ever been a general purpose encyclopedia which was found suitable for medical student instruction? What are our median level readers going to do if we suddenly start including enough pathophysiology images to please the med school instructors? I'm not entirely sure it will help them,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Existitng Research on Article Quality Heuristics?

2013-12-15 Thread James Salsman
Maximilian Klein wrote: ... Can you also think of any other dimensions or heuristics to programatically rate? Ref tags per article text bytes works pretty well, even by itself. Also, please consider readability metrics. I would say that at this point on enwiki, about a third of our real

[Wiki-research-l] generating QA review questions?

2014-02-18 Thread James Salsman
, editing activity necessary to maintain quality. Wikidata can help, but QA review needs to be independent and relatively anonymous. Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wiki-research-l] General user survey: future plans?

2014-02-21 Thread James Salsman
Is anyone working on a general user survey? http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/advocacy_advisors/2014-February/000394.htm Our advocacy orientation isn't well aligned with the issues that most affect Wikimedians at present, because previous surveys had some huge bias flaws. We need to cover

Re: [Wiki-research-l] General user survey: future plans?

2014-02-22 Thread James Salsman
Enforcement R. Geodata S. Open Educational Resources T. Software Patents U. Research Funding V. Surveillance W. Public Broadcasting X. Frequency Allocation Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Notes from the wiki research session at CSCW '14

2014-03-06 Thread James Salsman
... There’s also a related ... project that was piloted a few months ago to try and gauge gender gap in specific segments of the editor population or editor lifecycle via microsurveys I’d love to hear from other parties interested in using this model, which I think is promising Having

[Wiki-research-l] community survey

2014-03-08 Thread James Salsman
motivated to ask for action on it without some expectation of whether it is even worth it to try to persuade people. see also: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/advocacy_advisors/2014-February/000394.html Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wiki-research

[Wiki-research-l] stats.grok.se beats Google Flu Trends for predicting outbreaks

2014-04-23 Thread James Salsman
McIver, David J. and John S. Brownstein (April 17, 2014) Wikipedia Usage Estimates Prevalence of Influenza-Like Illness in the United States in Near Real-Time PLOS Computational Biology: http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003581 Wikipedia article view data has been

Re: [Wiki-research-l] What works for increasing editor engagement?

2014-09-13 Thread James Salsman
Pine wrote: I agree that the shift to mobile is a big deal; I do not agree: Active editor attrition began on its present trend in 2007, far before any mobile use was significant. I remain concerned that tech-centric approaches to editor engagement like VE and Flow, while perhaps having a

Re: [Wiki-research-l] What works for increasing editor engagement?

2014-09-14 Thread James Salsman
Oliver Keyes wrote: ... Mobile now makes up 30% of our page views and its users display divergent behavioural patterns; you don't think a group that makes up 30% of pageviews is a user group that is a 'big deal' for engagement? For the English Wikipedia: 100Million

Re: [Wiki-research-l] What works for increasing editor engagement?

2014-09-14 Thread James Salsman
Pine wrote: ... The data you show in that table indicates that there is a negative correlation between active editors and mobile pageviews No, it does not. The rate of editor attrition has been constant since 2007, while mobile views have increased from zero to billions. Mobile pageviews

Re: [Wiki-research-l] FW: What works for increasing editor engagement?

2014-09-24 Thread James Salsman
Hi Aaron, Is the data set from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Desirable_newcomer_survival_over_time.png available for correlation with the number of new articles each user created? Aaron Halfaker ahalfa...@wikimedia.org wrote: ... I propose a project where we work together to generate

Re: [Wiki-research-l] FW: What works for increasing editor engagement?

2014-09-25 Thread James Salsman
Luca wrote: Re. the edit conflicts happening when a new user is editing: Can't one add some AJAX to the editor that notifies that one still has the editing window open? Maybe editors could wait to modify work in progress, if they had that indication, and if the content does not seem

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Tool to find poorly written articles

2014-10-24 Thread James Salsman
Ditty, Article quality is inherently subjective in the hard-AI sense. A panel of judges will consider accurate articles full of spelling, grammar, and formatting errors superior in quality to hoax, biased, spam, or out-of-date articles with perfect grammar, impeccable spelling, and immaculate

Re: [Wiki-research-l] StackExchange editor decline (serverfault)

2014-12-11 Thread James Salsman
Jonathan Morgan wrote: ... not a single Korean Supreme Court Justice has an article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Sung-tae http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_In-bok http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Sang-hoon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Shin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_So-young

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: $55 million raised in 2014

2015-01-02 Thread James Salsman
with their safe harbor provisions regarding content control intact. Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: $55 million raised in 2014

2015-01-02 Thread James Salsman
In ten years time, I predict the Foundation will raise $3 billion: http://i.imgur.com/hdoAIan.jpg -- Forwarded message -- From: James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 9:01 PM Subject: $55 million raised in 2014 To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedi

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: $55 million raised in 2014

2015-01-02 Thread James Salsman
... here are a couple illustrations of some reasons I believe a ten year extrapolation of Foundation fundraising is completely reasonable: http://imgur.com/a/mV72T Words tend to be more useful than contextless images. I meant that the very sharply declining cost of solar (and wind) energy,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] June 26, 2019 at 11:30 AM PST, 19:30 UTC

2019-06-27 Thread James Salsman
> For those that couldn't make it, Is there are summary of what was said? Full recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiUfpmeJG7E Slides: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Trajectories_of_Blocked_Community_Members_-_Slides.pdf

[Wiki-research-l] open source alternatives to dbpedia?

2019-07-06 Thread James Salsman
Given some of the recent under-performance noticed by toxicity-sniffing tools, I thought I would ask what people here think of http://chat.dbpedia.org Have a look: https://i.imgur.com/jKqRRTw.png Is anyone else working on an open source text chatbot based on Wikidata? I can offer no promises