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
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
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?
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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
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
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
Has anyone replicated the experiment described in
http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2015/e-Biz/GeneralPresentations/11/
yet?
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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
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
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
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
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"
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:
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
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
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
>>
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
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
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
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
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!
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>
Is there any other research studying whether editing wikipedia(s)
produces real-world changes?
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editing Wik
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
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
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
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
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
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
>... 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
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
ellows pilot
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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
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,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1sSzKKoHB8
Best regards,
Jim
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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
> 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
> 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?
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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
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
[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.
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?
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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
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
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
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
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
>
> 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%?
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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
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
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
the community thinks of this new requirement.
Sincerely,
James Salsman
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sufficiently.
Sincerely,
James Salsman
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at the Wikimedia Foundation?
Sincerely,
James Salsman
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... 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,
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
.
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
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,
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
, editing activity
necessary to maintain quality. Wikidata can help, but QA review needs
to be independent and relatively anonymous.
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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
Enforcement
R. Geodata
S. Open Educational Resources
T. Software Patents
U. Research Funding
V. Surveillance
W. Public Broadcasting
X. Frequency Allocation
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... 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
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
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James Salsman
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
with their safe harbor
provisions regarding content control intact.
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James Salsman
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In ten years time, I predict the Foundation will raise $3 billion:
http://i.imgur.com/hdoAIan.jpg
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Subject: $55 million raised in 2014
To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedi
... 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,
> 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
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
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