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

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Jonathan Morgan, 17/07/2014 23:37: But because we /look like /an official body, it's easy to blame us for failing to prevent disruptive research (if you're a community member), for rubber stamping research

Re: [Wiki-research-l] A researcher asking for guidance re: surveys

*Short answer: *In this case, no new paperwork is needed. The survey was built into Amanda's funded IEG proposal, and so it has already undergone community review, and received both community and Foundation approval. So I'm going to throw this particular survey review/support task into my own

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] wikipedia access traces ?

See what you started, Pine? *This* is what happens when you get professors talking about research methods. :P - J On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Benj. Mako Hill m...@atdot.cc wrote: quote who=Pine W date=Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 01:49:13PM -0700 Yes, but supposedly phone survey companies are

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

*We don’t want our best contributors feeling like the most important contribution they can make is to find stuff to get rid of - and more importantly, we want to avoid deterring people from joining the community and participating by being over-protective of what we want the site to look like.

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

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 3:15 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: I continue to maintain that editor attrition is due to the natural transition from writing and completing new articles to maintaining old articles, and have seen nothing to convince me otherwise or of the validity of any

Re: [Wiki-research-l] commentary on Wikipedia's community behaviour (Aaron gets a quote)

I mostly agree. On one hand, it's always nice to see a detailed description of how wiki-sausage gets made in a major venue. On the other, this journalist clearly has a personal axe to grind, and used his bully pulpit to grind it in public. - J On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 1:39 AM, Federico Leva

[Wiki-research-l] New user retention on Zooniverse

This from Ars[1]. Sound familiar? * - The top 10 percent of contributors end up supplying an average of about 80 percent of the total effort put into these projects. - Most people who show up to check out a project never return. The most compelling projects still saw 60 percent of their users

[Wiki-research-l] YOUR INPUT NEEDED on Inspire Campaign research proposals!

Hi there wiki-researchers, We have 6 days left in Phase 1 of the Wikimedia Inspire campaign https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire and we've received quite a few compelling research proposals. *When you have a moment this week, please peruse these proposals and endorse/comment

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Waray-Waray language Wikipedia

Please, please be civil and respectful on your behavior towards others on the research list. I stopped reading Wikimedia-l because the tone turned me off. I'd rather not have to stop reading this one. On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 4:30 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Pine W,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gender-specific page titles

Fabian, I talked with Amanda Menking about this once, about a year ago. But no, I don't believe there has been any academic work on the issue (another consequence of our over-focus on enwiki). Mako Hill and Aaron Shaw presented a paper on redirects at WikiSym last year, and their enwiki corpus

[Wiki-research-l] Anyone have access to this article?

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10./jcom.12123/abstract *What Creates Interactivity in Online News Discussions? An Exploratory Analysis of Discussion Factors in User Comments on News Items* If you have access, and can send me a PDF offline, I would be very grateful :) Cheers, Jonathan

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Anyone have access to this article?

: I have to say that a WMF staffer using their official WMF account to ask community members to commit copyright infringement is not a good look. cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Jonathan Morgan jmor...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Aaron Swartz Hypothesis on Wikipedia Authorship

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Finn Årup Nielsen f...@imm.dtu.dk wrote: One interesting original study is this one: Creating, Destroying, and Restoring Value in Wikipedia from 2007 by Reid Priedhorsky and others. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1316624.1316663 Yes, this is the best study of

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

Replicated it how? Jonathan On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:06 AM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone replicated the experiment described in http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2015/e-Biz/GeneralPresentations/11/ yet? ___ Wiki-research-l

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

Thanks, James. That sounds really interesting. I hope to read it. NOTE TO EVERYONE: if you do have access to this closed-access paper, please do NOT attach a PDF of it to an email you send to this mailing list. Turns out it's a real pain to remove these files from our public list archive (I found

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Visual Editor experiment might have a problem ...

No, I'm not aware of any ongoing CAPTCHA work. There was a long thread on wikitech-l starting last December (Our CAPTCHA is very unfriendly) that resulted in some Phabricator tasks and a wikipage. But I don't know of any active development plans. By the way: Aaron's in transition (of the timezone

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Has the recent increase in English wikipedia's core community gone beyond a statistical blip?

a proportion to account for the increase in the number of editors doing 100 edits per month. On 17 August 2015 at 15:54, Jonathan Morgan jmor...@wikimedia.org wrote: There are gobs and gobs* of people using VE. Many of them are experienced editors. I'm also interested in looking at VE adoption

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Has the recent increase in English wikipedia's core community gone beyond a statistical blip?

-on-hhvm If the data is correct, then that is likely to be one of the main reasons for the change. Regards Jonathan Cardy On 17 Aug 2015, at 19:11, Jonathan Morgan jmor...@wikimedia.org wrote: It looks like about 10% of highly active Enwiki editors have used VE in the past month (across

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Has the recent increase in English wikipedia's core community gone beyond a statistical blip?

I don't think Jonathan was saying we should buy a full page adin the NYT and declare editor retention solved. I share his cautious optimism. The *rate* of the editor decline has decreased along several metrics, and we're seeing an intriguing uptick in 100+ editor activity. Back in 2011, when he

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] statistics about frequent section titles

Cross-posting this request to wiki-research-l. Anyone have data on frequently used section titles in articles (any language), or know of datasets/publications that examined this? I'm not aware of any off the top of my head, Amir. - Jonathan -- Forwarded message -- From: Amir E.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] Does StackExchange have more monthly active users than Wikipedia?

+research Fascinating. Thanks for sharing this, Nemo. And for setting those arrogant Stackers straight ;) For anyone else interested: Nemo was able to answer this question because StackExchange has a Quarry -like public query interface of their own. You should go play

Re: [Wiki-research-l] New editor retention rates Visual Editor vs Wikitext

Aaron Halfaker ran a study of whether VE affected new editor retention in May: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:VisualEditor%27s_effect_on_newly_registered_editors/May_2015_study He didn't find any difference in short term survival or productivity between VE and wikitext. That said, you

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Reinforcing or incentivizing desired user behavior

Hi Pine, The book *Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence Based Social Design*[1] provides a great synthesis of concepts from economics, sociology, and cognitive psychology as they apply to the design of projects like Wikipedia. In fact, Wikipedia is one of the primary case studies used

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Reinforcing or incentivizing desired user behavior

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) < nwil...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > There was also an editfilter tracking the usage of the WikiLove extension, > but it appears that was disabled in February 2015 due to performance issues > with too many concurrent editfilters (IIUC). old

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

Hi Kerry, Cool initiative. But then I expect nothing less from Ijon. I probably don't have to time perform additional analysis, unless it's a project I'm supporting on a volunteer basis. But one thing I do have time for is leading more SQL tutorials[1] to teach more people how to ask and answer

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Verifying claims about ENWP project size

Hi Pine, TL;DR: best to just say it's the largest encyclopedia ever. That should be safe. Claims like this are hard to make because terms that seem concrete from afar tend to break down up close. For example: What do you mean by largest? Largest in bytes? Words? Content "units" (articles vs.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] mobile pageviews

Hi Phoebe, I just forwarded you this email from Mobile-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2015-September/009773.html (since I'm not sure the attached images were archived). I think that might be what you want. If not, Tilman can probably point you to other, related resources. Hope

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Looking for help finding tools to measure UNESCO project

Hi John, I added one suggestion re: pages-in-a-category to your work page. Not sure it was a particularly helpful one, though. Looking through your other possible metrics, I see ways of gathering most of them via database and/or API queries, but I don't know of many tools (other than the ones

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Data on editathons held in each Wikipedia Language?

I don't personally know of any central repository for data on past edit-a-thons. There might be something out there. You could probably get some information from pinging folks in CE who've worked on Project & Event Grants (Asaf Bartov, Kacie Harold) or Program Evaluation (Amanda Bittaker, Edward

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Community health statistics of Wikiprojects

*Gabe/Nemo:* There is at least one piece of research that indicates it does, under certain circumstances: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/connect/CSCW_10/docs/p107.pdf At one point, I started building a WikiProject-matching workflow on the Teahouse (with Nettrom, using

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Reinforcing or incentivizing desired user behavior

t; teams. I'd like to suggest that anyone in Product who is interested in the > subject of contributor growth make at least a brief pass through this book. > > Thanks so much for the recommendation, J-mo. > > Pine > On Oct 6, 2015 08:29, "Jonathan Morgan" <jmor...@wikimedia.o

[Wiki-research-l] Re: Lists of WikiProject articles and members (was: Community health statistics of Wikiprojects)

Hi Pine et al., Apologies for resurrecting this old thread, but my colleague Michael Gilbert alerted me the other day that the API we set up a couple years ago to collect and expose data about EnWiki WikiProject size and membership is still up and running!* Here's a couple samples: - pages

[Wiki-research-l] ReplayEdits tool gets a shout-out in NYT

Yesterday, 2013 IEG grantee Jeph Paul started seeing 1000s of hits on his (grant-funded, volunteer-maintained) ReplayEdits tool which visually replays edit histories of Wikipedia articles. Here's why: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/us/politics/wikipedia-donald-trump-2016-election.html?_r=0

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Sharing Wiki related research data

Many WMF researchers use https://figshare.com Jonathan On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 7:38 AM, Robert Jäschke wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Dear Moritz, > > On 21.04.2016 16:32, Physikerwelt wrote: > > is there a central data repository, we want to

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] The WikiLove research project

eing a paper a > while back about the positive effect of barnstars, which may be of interest > to the discussion, but I'm not aware of anything about the effects of > WikiLove specifically. > > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Jonathan Morgan <jmor...@wikimedia.org> > wrote

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wmfall] Fwd: [CE] Announcing Rapid Grants

Dear Wikimedia research community, If you ever thought of organizing a small event, print some stickers, or any other activity for the good of Wikimedia that costed money, now Rapid Grants might be the simple solution you were looking for. Details below. -- Forwarded message --

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Watchlists

Thanks, Pine! Jan, Pau Giner and I did some interviews with experienced editors about their use of the Notifications feature between October and April (study 1 , study 2

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

ons (cf. > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy/FAQ ). > > Cheers, > d. > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Jonathan Morgan <jmor...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > Thanks, Sydney and Pine. > > > > This is timely, as Resources i

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Request: Studies of external impacts of Wikipedia

Following up on Fabian's suggestions, I put together a lit review last year of the use of Wikipedia by a few different populations (focusing on students), which includes the Head and Eisenberg

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] Question about data mining of the "Articles for Deletion" queues

+research-l because this is more of a research than an analytics question. Hi Jane, What do you mean by acronyms in deletion queues here? Are you talking about policy links used to justify !votes in deletion discussions, or acronyms used in deletion comments of AfD'd articles? Or something else

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Chapters

Hi Aisha, Interesting question. I haven't read anything that fits this description, but you may want to take a look at the work of Iolanda Pensa[1] and Darius Jemielniak[2], both of whom are researchers and also active in Movement governance. 1. http://repository.supsi.ch/2138/ 2.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Article Lifecycle stats

Hi Peter, Re: your question about getting historical ORES article quality predictions, there's an open ticket on Phabricator to add these data to the public replicas hosted on Labs (and therefore accessible via both SSH tunnel and Quarry). Chime in on

[Wiki-research-l] New guide for organizing Edit-a-thons at science conferences

I just ran across a new-ish (Feb 17) resource for people interested in running editathons for scientists, developed by the Simons Foundation. You can read the blog post[1] and download the guide in PDF form[2]. The guide provides a well-organized and comprehensive set of practical tips for

Re: [Wiki-research-l] surveying Wiki editors?

Hi Misha, You might find the survey support desk to be a useful resource for guidance on the do's and don't's of survey design and deployment. Best, Jonathan On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 6:56 AM, Misha Teplitskiy wrote: > Dear

Re: [Wiki-research-l] (qualitative?) Wiki Researchers at Wikimania?

I'd love to meet! Leila and Aaron are honorary quals ;) Leila does a massive amount of survey research, and Aaron is building a system to capture qualitative judgements around ORES scores. - J On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Aaron Halfaker wrote: > I'll be there.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC

Andy: thanks for sharing this more widely. Looks like it sparked some interesting conversation (and touched a few nerves!). I just added a link to the manuscript to the Showcase page. I hope that some of the discussion

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Escience_bbl] Call for Application - Mozilla Fellowship for Science

Call for research fellows from an ideologically-aligned organization. Looks like a fascinating opportunity. Wish I could apply! - J -- Forwarded message -- From: Sarah and Micaela Date: Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:09 AM Subject: [Escience_bbl]

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Looking for examples and suggestions for research project on my work at UNESCO

hi John, When you say "research project", do you mean specifically "measure the impact of a program or event", or do you mean something more general? - J On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 6:27 AM, john cummings wrote: > Dear all > > I've been working as Wikimedian in Residence

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Report/Reflection on CHI 2017

This is wonderful, Andrew. Thank you for sharing it! - Jonathan On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Andrew Hall wrote: > Hello all, > > I recently attended the 2017 Conference on Human Factors in Computing > Systems (CHI) and put together a small report/reflection for Aaron

Re: [Wiki-research-l] sharing my project "Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory" / grant application

Thanks for sharing this, Marc. I've endorsed the project overall (as a volunteer, not staff), but also described some concerns/considerations with some aspects of the proposal on the talk page. Cheers, Jonathan On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 6:33 AM, Marc Miquel wrote: > Hello

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: ACM JOCCH Special Issue Call for Papers on Evaluation of Digital Cultural Resources

Looks to be an interesting venue for people doing Wikipedia research with a focus on cultural heritage (esp. GLAM/WikiLoves research?). Manuscripts are due November 30, and it looks like they accept several types of submissions . --

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Announcement - NICO Hosts International Conference on Computational Social Science

The call for abstracts link was broken for me. This one should work: http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/news-events/conference/ic2s2/2018/call-for-abstracts.aspx On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 2:35 PM, NICO Northwestern < niconorthwestern...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > > > We are very

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: JDIQ Call for Papers: Special issue on Combating Digital Misinformation and Disinformation

Interesting and timely CFP... -J -- Forwarded message -- From: Tiziana Catarci, ACM JDIQ Editor-in-Chief Date: Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 8:00 AM Subject: JDIQ Call for Papers: Special issue on Combating Digital Misinformation and Disinformation To: jmor...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editor participation rates in surveys

Hi Juliana, Can you give a little more info about what you're looking for, and a little context about why your asking? I don't know of any research that has specifically asked whether there is a difference in response rate per target group. Anecdotally (I've run a lot of editor surveys), I can

[Wiki-research-l] Wikimedia is hiring a Senior Design Researcher

Hi everyone, There's a new full-time Senior-level research position available at WMF that you should know about. Details below and here. Please forward this on to relevant contacts and channels! I am able to answer some

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikidata] Fwd: Call for Papers: EuropeanaTech 2018 Conference

Interesting/relevant research venue... -- Forwarded message -- From: Sandra Fauconnier Date: Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 10:07 AM Subject: [Wikidata] Fwd: Call for Papers: EuropeanaTech 2018 Conference To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] A new landing page for the Wikimedia Research team

Aaron: I'll ask Baha about the issue tracking... *issue* today. The code is hosted on Gerrit now, with a one-way mirror on this GitHub repo[1], which is not ideal from an openness/collaboration POV. For me, enabling easy issue tracking and pull requests is the most pressing issue. In the meantime,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] A new landing page for the Wikimedia Research team

Quick heads up that there's now a Phab tag[1] for the landing page. Please feel free to use this tag to document issues and feature requests. Thanks, Jonathan 1. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/3243/ On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 8:46 AM, Jonathan Morgan <jmor...@wikimedia.org>

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gaps

Thanks, Heather! This looks super interesting and relevant. I look forward to reading it :) Jonathan On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 3:28 PM, Heather Ford wrote: > Dear Amir, > > I did send this via Twitter, but wanted to send here too in case anyone > else is interested. Our paper

[Wiki-research-l] New policy about performing research on English Wikipedia

Hi there wiki-research folks, This is just a heads-up that English Wikipedia has adopted a new policy[1] about research on that project. The policy codifies some new requirements for community notification and disclosure that potentially apply to all research projects (regardless of the

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Revert data by article importance/quality/readership/watchership/BLP

al Message- > From: Wiki-research-l [mailto:wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] > On Behalf Of Jonathan Morgan > Sent: Wednesday, 21 March 2018 4:30 AM > To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities < > wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wiki-

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Revert data by article importance/quality/readership/watchership/BLP

Kerry, Did you really mean "not allow" here? IMO we (WMF, researchers, Wikipedians) shouldn't be in the business of creating Yet Another Barrier to newcomer contribution. *Suggesting* that people avoid making their first edit to the article on Donald Trump, etc.--sure, that's a good "teachable

Re: [Wiki-research-l] question - Psychiatry studies

Hi Juliana, Nothing comes to mind. Although there's been a good deal of high-profile research on editor motivation, which should be discoverable via Google Scholar. And I see there's currently a research project written up on Meta

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Results from 2018 global Wikimedia survey are published!

whoops, last sentence of paragraph #5 should read "You *CAN* have higher walls and easier quality control, but you can't have higher walls and higher newcomer retention (or diversity)." On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 9:45 AM Jonathan Morgan wrote: > Kerry, > > I like this a lot e

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Results from 2018 global Wikimedia survey are published!

Kerry, I like this a lot except for one small, but critical, distinction. I want to get your take on it (yours specifically, in this case, because of your background and the thought you've put into this issue). I think that explicitly forbidding newcomers from performing certain kinds of

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Results from 2018 global Wikimedia survey are published!

(Re: Jonathan's 'Chilling Effect' theory and Kerry's call for experiments to increase gender diversity) Kerry: In a magic world, where I could experiment with anything I wanted to without having to get permission from communities, I would experiment with enforceable codes of conduct that covered

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Results from 2018 global Wikimedia survey are published!

new > culture is going to be. En.WP will not change of its own accord; we have > years of evidence to demonstrate that. > > Kerry > > -Original Message- > From: Wiki-research-l [mailto:wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] > On Behalf Of Jonathan Morgan > Sen

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Vandalism

Tom, You may be interested in the ORES Platform , which provides a vandalism detection service across many (but not all) Wikipedia languages. It works at the revision level, not the user level, but I suppose you could filter and/or aggregate. Best, Jonathan

Re: [Wiki-research-l] where did I read about predicting user conflicts?

Kerry, Here are a couple recent pieces on predicting conversation outcomes, that I'm aware of. 1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.05345.pdf 2. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/I17-1103 There's another recent one about predicting whether RFCs will be closed, that Chris Schilling worked on with some

[Wiki-research-l] New research: predicting whether (and why) a Wikipedia sentence needs a citation

Hi all, Miriam Redi and I just published a blog post summarizing some of our recent research using machine learning to detect sentences that need citations, as well as the reason why a citation is likely necessary for that sentence. Read the blog post (high-level summary) here

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

Piotr, I think this is an excellent topic, FWIW. And I bet the Wikipedia Education Program would be interested in the outcomes of this research. And they might be willing to point you to potential interview candidates (tho, obviously, they have a strong US/EnWiki bias, so it wouldn't be the

Re: [Wiki-research-l] open position(s) in digital sociology

FWIW I personally think these kinds of posts are totally relevant and useful. So as long as we don't get too many complaints, I plan to make them as well! - J On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 1:20 PM Dariusz Jemielniak wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure what the rules for posting such announcements at this

[Wiki-research-l] Propose a Community Growth session at Wikimania before June 1!

More information about the Community Growth space, topics, and submission formats is available on the proposal page <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Community_Growth>. Sincerely, Jonathan Morgan On behalf of the Community Growth leadership team -- Jonathan T. Morgan Senior Design R

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Research showcase for May

Hi Pine, We're at the WIkiWorkshop this week, so no Showcase.* We'll be back next month (exact date TBD; we originally inadvertently scheduled over Juneteenth so we'll need to move the showcase up or back a week). Check MediaWiki for updates! Best, Jonathan

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Research showcase for May

*not going to be recorded On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 8:57 AM Jonathan Morgan wrote: > Hi Pine, > > We're at the WIkiWorkshop <http://wikiworkshop.org/2019/> this week, so > no Showcase.* We'll be back next month (exact date TBD; we originally > inadvertently scheduled over Jun

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

RhinosF1, All talks are recorded and archived on YouTube, so the link below should still work. Let me know if there's a problem with the archiving and I'll see what I can do. I'm also working on getting all slides linked to from the Showcase page on me.org, whenever possible! It was a great

Re: [Wiki-research-l] sockpuppets and how to find them sooner

Nemo, Can you please elaborate on what use of language, and whose use of language, you are criticizing? It is not clear from your email what "jargon" you refer to, and why you feel it is inappropriate. Jonathan On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 12:59 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Please everyone

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Modelling user behaviour on Wikipedia

Taking a quick step back from all the very enthusiastic questioning of the researcher's motives... Kiril, Regarding your methods, Your proposal states that for this study "The

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Modelling user behaviour on Wikipedia

cs mailing list <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics>. > > Best, > Kiril > > On Tue 25. Feb 2020 at 17:06, Jonathan Morgan > wrote: > > > Taking a quick step back from all the very enthusiastic questioning of > the

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Analytics] Introducing statistics for media files

New datasets = new potential research questions ;) -- Forwarded message - From: Francisco Dans Date: Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 9:52 AM Subject: [Analytics] Introducing statistics for media files To: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] Active meta users v active wikimedia users

RhinosF1, Are you looking for information like this , or something different? - J On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 8:51 AM RhinosF1 - wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know a way to find out how many wikimedia users are active > globally compared to

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] Active meta users v active wikimedia users

Same dashboard, but for "All wikis": https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/all-projects That work? - J On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 11:32 AM RhinosF1 - wrote: > Hi, > > That provides active users for meta but not globally. Anything for global? > > RhinosF1 > > On Mon

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] Active meta users v active wikimedia users

gt; > The best solution to this is to have a common table/relation across all > > Wikis and to aggregate from there. I don't think there's any such > > cross-wiki table/relation available. > > > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 1:38 PM Jonathan Morgan > > wrote: > > &

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Asperges, ADHD and editors

le do get hurt, people do get traumatised because of this inattention. > Thanks, > GerardM > > On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 17:58, Jonathan Morgan > wrote: > > > There's this study > > < > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:The_Construction_and_Applic

[Wiki-research-l] MOSS launches COVID-19 Solutions Fund

FYI: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/03/31/moss-launches-covid-19-solutions-fund/ From the announcement: *"Mozilla is announcing today the creation of a COVID-19 Solutions Fund as part of the Mozilla Open Source Support Program (MOSS). Through this fund, we will provide awards of up to $50,000

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Asperges, ADHD and editors

There's this study but I don't know if it was ever completed (and as you can infer from my posts on the talkpage, I very much hope it was NOT). In general, any

[Wiki-research-l] [Announcement] Daily Social Media Traffic Report for English Wikipedia articles

The WMF Research team has published a new pageview report of inbound traffic coming from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Reddit.[1] The report contains a list of all articles that received at least 500 views from one or more of these platforms (i.e. someone clicked a link on Twitter that sent

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Announcement] Daily Social Media Traffic Report for English Wikipedia articles

or the Dutch, > the German, the French, the Chinese, the Russian Wikipedia?? > Thanks, >GerardM > > On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 at 20:24, Jonathan Morgan > wrote: > > > The WMF Research team has published a new pageview report of inbound > > traffic coming f

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Announcing Citation Detective, a public dataset of sentences missing citations

a greater number of articles. It is > also possible to expand the database to contain more fields in a future > version according to feedback from tool developers and researchers. More > use cases for this type of data were identified in a design research > project > < > https://meta

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Announcement] Daily Social Media Traffic Report for English Wikipedia articles

ues. > > Cheers > Stuart > > On Tue, 24 Mar 2020, 8:24 AM Jonathan Morgan, > wrote: > > > The WMF Research team has published a new pageview report of inbound > > traffic coming from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Reddit.[1] > > > > The report contai

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Bibliography of wiki related works

Hi Ziko, How about WikiData? There are some scholarly articles about Wikipedia there already: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21679410 Cheers, J On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 3:27 AM Ziko van Dijk wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > Here a remark/question(s) about the way how we keep record in the >

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Interesting Wikipedia studies

A few more for consideration: Keegan et al.'s work on how editors collaborate around breaking news events (I expect this to get cited a lot in the next year or so, with increased interest in the role of Wikipedia in combating COVID

[Wiki-research-l] Re: New Dataset on Search Engine Traffic to Wikipedia

this is an amazing resource. Thank you! Jonathan > On Jun 10, 2021, at 2:52 PM, Isaac J wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > I'd like to announce a new dataset of Wikipedia pageviews that shows trends > in search engine usage across countries, language editions, internet > browsers, and device

[Wiki-research-l] Re: [announcement] Welcoming Emily Lescak to Research at the Wikimedia Foundation

Welcome, Emily! Jonathan > On Aug 20, 2021, at 10:49 PM, Mardetanha wrote: > > We are glad to have you, Emily, Welcome > > > Mardetanha > > >> On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 5:31 AM Leila Zia wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> In February 2021, I reached out to you [0] to gather your input for a >>

[Wiki-research-l] Re: Negative views of Wikipedia in schools [was: Re: Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 193, Issue 5

Hi Mattieu, I did some literature reviews on similar topics a few years back. Hope this helps! 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Student_use_of_free_online_information_resources/Related_work 2.

[Wiki-research-l] Re: [data] Announcement - Data release

ser:Benjamin Mako Hill) > David Lazer, Professor, Northeastern University > J. Nathan Matias, Assistant Professor, Cornell Communication > Jason Moore, English Wikipedia, WikiProject COVID-19, (User:Another > Believer) > Jonathan Morgan, Senior Design Researcher at CrowdStrike (then: Senior

[Wiki-research-l] Re: Article on WP for fact-checking in schools

great article! Thanks for sharing, J > On Nov 7, 2021, at 3:49 PM, Mathieu O'Neil wrote: > > Hi all > > The first stage in the campaign to introduce WP as part of the fact-checking > curriculum in primary and secondary schools i n Australia was launched last > week with the publication of

[Wiki-research-l] Re: What's your favorite text about general research frameworks?

+1 for Stu Geiger's approach. I also like to take an ethnographic approach to understanding Wikipedia as a project/workspace/community. I used to conduct a *lot* of interviews with Wikipedia community members, and the best reference I've found for how to do ethnographic interviewing well is James