Re: [Wikimedia-l] Big data benefits and limitations (relevance: WMF editor engagement, fundraising, and HR practices)

2013-01-14 Thread Richard Farmbrough
Yes there is some data on templating in a research paper somewhere, and some more on a/b template runs. But the solution is not trivial. I have stuck up for a few editors who appear to be children, suggesting that we treat them a little more gently, only to be told that they are in fact

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Big data benefits and limitations (relevance: WMF editor engagement, fundraising, and HR practices)

2013-01-03 Thread Cristian Consonni
2013/1/3 Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org: On 03/01/13 16:09, George Herbert wrote: Laugh all you want, but the best man at my wedding's scalable P2P in the cloud company was acquired by Adobe, then he was poached by Skype who were poached by Microsoft, and now he's a Very Senior Architect

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Big data benefits and limitations (relevance: WMF editor engagement, fundraising, and HR practices)

2013-01-03 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Jan 3, 2013 11:01 AM, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote: On 3 January 2013 06:38, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: You don't need big data to see what needs to be done. It might help; often it is surprising how statistical analysis can help narrow the focus of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Big data benefits and limitations (relevance: WMF editor engagement, fundraising, and HR practices)

2013-01-02 Thread Tim Starling
On 02/01/13 09:33, ENWP Pine wrote: Hi Pine, It might be because of the alcohol I've ingested these last days, but - what are you proposing exactly? Hapy new year, strainu I wasn't proposing any specific action. I was thinking, Big Data is a cool topic, it's a big topic in its own

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Big data benefits and limitations (relevance: WMF editor engagement, fundraising, and HR practices)

2013-01-02 Thread George Herbert
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 02/01/13 09:33, ENWP Pine wrote: Hi Pine, It might be because of the alcohol I've ingested these last days, but - what are you proposing exactly? Hapy new year, strainu I wasn't proposing any specific

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Big data benefits and limitations (relevance: WMF editor engagement, fundraising, and HR practices)

2013-01-02 Thread George Herbert
Yes. Big data is neither the problem nor the solution here. George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone On Jan 2, 2013, at 10:38 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 03/01/13 16:09, George Herbert wrote: Laugh all you want, but the best man at my wedding's scalable P2P in the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Big data benefits and limitations (relevance: WMF editor engagement, fundraising, and HR practices)

2013-01-01 Thread ENWP Pine
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Big data benefits and limitations (relevance: WMF editor engagement, fundraising, and HR practices) Message-ID: CAC9meR+Ap=3pn5jn4yadjmagzsnblntw8iqrmjksupgr5nm...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi Pine, It might be because

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Big data benefits and limitations (relevance: WMF editor engagement, fundraising, and HR practices)

2012-12-31 Thread Strainu
Hi Pine, It might be because of the alcohol I've ingested these last days, but - what are you proposing exactly? Hapy new year, strainu 2012/12/30, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com: I'm sending this to Wikimedia-l, Wikitech-l, and Research-l in case other people in the Wikimedia