Re: [Wiki-research-l] Kill the bots

2014-05-18 Thread Scott Hale
doesn't break for more than 6 hours in 5-6 days is probably not human) Cheers, Scott [1] Multilinguals and Wikipedia Editing http://www.scotthale.net/pubs/?websci2014 -- Scott Hale Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford http://www.scotthale.net/ scott.h...@oii.ox.ac.uk On Sun, May 18

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Kill the bots

2014-05-19 Thread Scott Hale
Thanks all for the comments on my paper, and even more thanks to everyone sharing these super helpful ideas on filtering bots: this is why I love the Wikipedia research committee. I think Oliver is definitely right that this would be a useful topic for some piece of method-comparing research,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Kill the bots

2014-05-21 Thread Scott Hale
and screaming into the light. (sorry, it's annual review season. That always gets me blithe.) On 19 May 2014 13:03, Scott Hale computermacgy...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks all for the comments on my paper, and even more thanks to everyone sharing these super helpful ideas on filtering bots: this is why

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Quality on different language version

2014-06-10 Thread Scott Hale
___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l -- Scott Hale Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford http://www.scotthale.net/ scott.h...@oii.ox.ac.uk

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

2014-09-24 Thread Scott Hale
are not known by the community of Wikipedia researchers. Best, Valerio ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l -- Scott Hale Oxford Internet Institute

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

2014-09-25 Thread Scott Hale
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Luca de Alfaro l...@dealfaro.com wrote: Better merging would be welcome. But also less aggressive editing/policing. When I edit openstreetmap I have a better overall experience: the edits may or may not go live immediately, but I don't have the impression

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

2014-09-25 Thread Scott Hale
edit to their heart content, without triggering the interest of editors and the consequent conflicts, then save their changes. Luca On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Scott Hale computermacgy...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Luca de Alfaro l...@dealfaro.com wrote: Better

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

2014-09-25 Thread Scott Hale
, and that was the exact point of my first email: On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Scott Hale computermacgy...@gmail.com wrote: And that is the fundamental flaw with this whole email thread. The question needing to be answered isn't what increases new user retention. The real question is what increases

Re: [Wiki-research-l] How to track all the diffs in real time?

2014-12-13 Thread Scott Hale
-- Scott Hale Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford http://www.scotthale.net/ scott.h...@oii.ox.ac.uk ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Release]

2015-03-04 Thread Scott Hale
Oliver: Scott Hale and I have been working on a paper looking at global reach and how it tracks with internet access growth, in the context of editing, particularly looking at the mobile web. That, we should be done with by then; presenting it could be highly useful (Scott? ;p) I see what

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: Traffic to the portal from Zero providers

2015-05-07 Thread Scott Hale
The accept-language header is the obvious place to start, but there is amble scope to combine multiple approaches together. In addition to accept-language and geolocation data, any logged in user will have view/edit history related to multiple editions. If the user is requesting a specific

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia search logs needed

2015-04-03 Thread Scott Hale
The search logs will then be analyzed in order to find recurrent search patterns across participants. Before beginning the experiment, I want to check that I can indeed find patterns in search logs, using several different algorithms. The idea is to check these algorithms on Wikipedia search

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

2015-07-19 Thread Scott Hale
___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l -- Dr Scott Hale Data Scientist Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford http://www.scotthale.net/ ___ Wiki

Re: [Wiki-research-l] "Quick" request

2016-02-22 Thread Scott Hale
omepage: www.bgoncalves.com > Email: bgoncal...@gmail.com > *** > ___ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > -- Dr. Scott Hale Data Sci

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Parsing editor's each revision contents from wiki XML dumps

2016-01-20 Thread Scott Hale
lp > me make more progress. Thanks in advance! > > Sincerely, > Bowen > > ___ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > -- Dr Scot

Re: [Wiki-research-l] ground truth for section alignment across languages

2017-08-28 Thread Scott Hale
the Article-as-Concept Assumption in Wikipedia. 2017 http://www.brenthecht.com/publications/cscw17_subarticles.pdf [6] Omnipedia: Bridging the Wikipedia Language Gap. 2012. http://www.brenthecht.com/papers/bhecht_CHI2012_omnipedia.pdf Best wishes, Scott -- Dr Scott Hale Senior Data Scientist Oxford Inte

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Users across all Wikimedia projects

2018-08-03 Thread Scott Hale
Hi Alessandro, Usernames are unique across Wikimedia projects now; so, it is possible to simply union/intersect the usernames from any projects to understand the overlap. There are, however, as you have seen a huge number of users although most are not active in any given month. One approach I

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] April 17 at 11:30 AM PDT, 19:30 UTC

2019-04-11 Thread Scott Hale
Thank you for organizing. Just a note for Europe based colleagues, that 11:30AM PDT is 18:30 UTC. This will be 20:30 Central European Summer Time or 19:30 Western European Summer Time (e.g., Portugal and UK). Cheers, Scott On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 8:49 AM Janna Layton wrote: > Hello, everyone,

[Wiki-research-l] Hiring Research Fellow position (Oxford/SF/Remote)

2020-03-25 Thread Scott Hale
Dear All, I didn't send this earlier because it isn't strictly Wiki related, but seeing other recent posts to the list I wanted to share as I think many people here would be good candidates. If you are interested by unable to send a CV by the deadline, please just tell me. We're hiring a

[Wiki-research-l] [job] Open-source supporting fact-checking

2020-10-20 Thread Scott Hale
Meedan, a global non-profit I work with, is hiring a software engineer. The posting says frontend, but full-stack developers are also super welcome. It's a distributed organization with a great mission and culture. I'm very happy to answer questions if anyone's interested and very much appreciate

[Wiki-research-l] [Job] Oxford Internet Institute - Departmental Research Lecturer Post

2021-06-20 Thread Scott Hale
The Social Data Science program at the University of Oxford is hiring! Below is the link for an open position in the MSc program in Social Data Science. This position is suitable for someone in their early or mid-career stage. It is a three-year fixed term position in the first instance and funded

[Wiki-research-l] [job] - Train algorithms / build software to counter misinformation

2022-08-17 Thread Scott Hale
Meedan, a global technology non-profit, is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to play a key role in our research and engineering teams. We build Check, a web platform for collaborative media annotation and claim-checking used by some of the world’s leading fact-checking and media organizations,