Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

[Yaroslav Blanter]

Hi Gerard,

arxiv.org is a free resource. It is actually one of the earliest free
depositories, and in many fields, including mine (physics) it is customary
to upload preprints at arxiv.org prior to sending for review. It can not be
behind the paywall.

Cheers
Yaroslav

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 7:50 PM, Alice Wiegand  wrote:

> German, also.
>
> Alice.
>
> Von meinem iPhone gesendet
>
> > Am 21.04.2017 um 19:25 schrieb attolippip :
> >
> > and Ukrainian :) and per Amir about instructions
> >
> > Best regards,
> > antanana
> >
> > 2017-04-21 20:03 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni  >:
> >
> >> If I want this done for Hebrew and Russian, do I just reply to this
> thread?
> >> Or did I miss the instructions in the first email? :)
> >>
> >> בתאריך 21 באפר׳ 2017 19:46,‏ "Leila Zia"  כתב:
> >>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> ==Background==
> >>> In November 2016, I presented the result of a joint research that
> >>> helped us understand English Wikipedia readers better. (Presentation
> >>> at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIaMuWA84bY ). I talked about how
> >>> we used English, Persian, and Spanish Wikipedia readers' inputs to
> >>> build a taxonomy of Wikipedia use-cases along several dimensions,
> >>> capturing users’ motivations to visit Wikipedia, the depth of
> >>> knowledge they are seeking, and their knowledge of the topic of
> >>> interest prior to visiting Wikipedia. I also talked about the results
> >>> of the study we did to quantify the prevalence of these use-cases via
> >>> a large-scale user survey conducted on English Wikipedia. In that
> >>> study, we also matched survey responses to the respondents’ digital
> >>> traces in Wikipedia’s server logs which enabled us in discovering
> >>> behavioral patterns associated with specific use-cases. You can read
> >>> the full study at https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05379 .
> >>>
> >>> ==What do we want to do now?==
> >>> There are quite a few directions this research can continue on, and
> >>> the most immediate one is to understand whether the results that we
> >>> observe (in English Wikipeida) is robust across languages/cultures.
> >>> For this, we are going to repeat the study, but this time in more
> >>> languages. Here are the languages on our list: Arabic, Dutch, English,
> >>> Hindi, Japanese, Spanish (thanks to all the volunteers who have been
> >>> helping us translating all survey related documents to these
> >>> languages.:)
> >>>
> >>> ==What about your language?==
> >>> If your language is not one of the six languages above and you'd like
> >>> to learn about the readers of Wikipedia in it (in the specific ways
> >>> described above), please get back to me by Monday, April 24, AoE. I
> >>> cannot guarantee that we can run the study in your language, however,
> >>> I guarantee that we will give it a good try if you're interested. The
> >>> decision to include more languages will depend on: our capacity to do
> >>> the analysis, the speed at which your community can help us translate
> >>> the material to the language, the traffic to that language, a couple
> >>> of sentences on how you'd think the result can help your community,
> >>> and your willingness to help us document the results for your language
> >>> at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_
> >>> Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour
> >>> (Quite some work will need to go to have readable/usable
> >>> documentations available and we are too small to be able to guarantee
> >>> that on our own for many languages.)
> >>>
> >>> Best,
> >>> Leila
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Leila Zia
> >>> Senior Research Scientist
> >>> Wikimedia Foundation
> >>>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

[Leila Zia]

yeah, sorry, antanana and Amir: a better communication channel re
sign-ups would be better. Emailing on this thread or off-list to me
works. I'm keeping track of languages requested and I'll contact the
person who requests them to figure out the next steps no later than
Tuesday.

L


On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 10:25 AM, attolippip  wrote:
> and Ukrainian :) and per Amir about instructions
>
> Best regards,
> antanana
>
> 2017-04-21 20:03 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni :
>
>> If I want this done for Hebrew and Russian, do I just reply to this thread?
>> Or did I miss the instructions in the first email? :)
>>
>> בתאריך 21 באפר׳ 2017 19:46,‏ "Leila Zia"  כתב:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > ==Background==
>> > In November 2016, I presented the result of a joint research that
>> > helped us understand English Wikipedia readers better. (Presentation
>> > at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIaMuWA84bY ). I talked about how
>> > we used English, Persian, and Spanish Wikipedia readers' inputs to
>> > build a taxonomy of Wikipedia use-cases along several dimensions,
>> > capturing users’ motivations to visit Wikipedia, the depth of
>> > knowledge they are seeking, and their knowledge of the topic of
>> > interest prior to visiting Wikipedia. I also talked about the results
>> > of the study we did to quantify the prevalence of these use-cases via
>> > a large-scale user survey conducted on English Wikipedia. In that
>> > study, we also matched survey responses to the respondents’ digital
>> > traces in Wikipedia’s server logs which enabled us in discovering
>> > behavioral patterns associated with specific use-cases. You can read
>> > the full study at https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05379 .
>> >
>> > ==What do we want to do now?==
>> > There are quite a few directions this research can continue on, and
>> > the most immediate one is to understand whether the results that we
>> > observe (in English Wikipeida) is robust across languages/cultures.
>> > For this, we are going to repeat the study, but this time in more
>> > languages. Here are the languages on our list: Arabic, Dutch, English,
>> > Hindi, Japanese, Spanish (thanks to all the volunteers who have been
>> > helping us translating all survey related documents to these
>> > languages.:)
>> >
>> > ==What about your language?==
>> > If your language is not one of the six languages above and you'd like
>> > to learn about the readers of Wikipedia in it (in the specific ways
>> > described above), please get back to me by Monday, April 24, AoE. I
>> > cannot guarantee that we can run the study in your language, however,
>> > I guarantee that we will give it a good try if you're interested. The
>> > decision to include more languages will depend on: our capacity to do
>> > the analysis, the speed at which your community can help us translate
>> > the material to the language, the traffic to that language, a couple
>> > of sentences on how you'd think the result can help your community,
>> > and your willingness to help us document the results for your language
>> > at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_
>> > Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour
>> > (Quite some work will need to go to have readable/usable
>> > documentations available and we are too small to be able to guarantee
>> > that on our own for many languages.)
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > Leila
>> >
>> > --
>> > Leila Zia
>> > Senior Research Scientist
>> > Wikimedia Foundation
>> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

[Alice Wiegand]

German, also.

Alice.

Von meinem iPhone gesendet

> Am 21.04.2017 um 19:25 schrieb attolippip :
> 
> and Ukrainian :) and per Amir about instructions
> 
> Best regards,
> antanana
> 
> 2017-04-21 20:03 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni :
> 
>> If I want this done for Hebrew and Russian, do I just reply to this thread?
>> Or did I miss the instructions in the first email? :)
>> 
>> בתאריך 21 באפר׳ 2017 19:46,‏ "Leila Zia"  כתב:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> ==Background==
>>> In November 2016, I presented the result of a joint research that
>>> helped us understand English Wikipedia readers better. (Presentation
>>> at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIaMuWA84bY ). I talked about how
>>> we used English, Persian, and Spanish Wikipedia readers' inputs to
>>> build a taxonomy of Wikipedia use-cases along several dimensions,
>>> capturing users’ motivations to visit Wikipedia, the depth of
>>> knowledge they are seeking, and their knowledge of the topic of
>>> interest prior to visiting Wikipedia. I also talked about the results
>>> of the study we did to quantify the prevalence of these use-cases via
>>> a large-scale user survey conducted on English Wikipedia. In that
>>> study, we also matched survey responses to the respondents’ digital
>>> traces in Wikipedia’s server logs which enabled us in discovering
>>> behavioral patterns associated with specific use-cases. You can read
>>> the full study at https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05379 .
>>> 
>>> ==What do we want to do now?==
>>> There are quite a few directions this research can continue on, and
>>> the most immediate one is to understand whether the results that we
>>> observe (in English Wikipeida) is robust across languages/cultures.
>>> For this, we are going to repeat the study, but this time in more
>>> languages. Here are the languages on our list: Arabic, Dutch, English,
>>> Hindi, Japanese, Spanish (thanks to all the volunteers who have been
>>> helping us translating all survey related documents to these
>>> languages.:)
>>> 
>>> ==What about your language?==
>>> If your language is not one of the six languages above and you'd like
>>> to learn about the readers of Wikipedia in it (in the specific ways
>>> described above), please get back to me by Monday, April 24, AoE. I
>>> cannot guarantee that we can run the study in your language, however,
>>> I guarantee that we will give it a good try if you're interested. The
>>> decision to include more languages will depend on: our capacity to do
>>> the analysis, the speed at which your community can help us translate
>>> the material to the language, the traffic to that language, a couple
>>> of sentences on how you'd think the result can help your community,
>>> and your willingness to help us document the results for your language
>>> at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_
>>> Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour
>>> (Quite some work will need to go to have readable/usable
>>> documentations available and we are too small to be able to guarantee
>>> that on our own for many languages.)
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Leila
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Leila Zia
>>> Senior Research Scientist
>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>> 
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[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] New guide for organizing Edit-a-thons at science conferences

[Pine W]

Forwarding a resource.

Pine


-- Forwarded message --
From: Jonathan Morgan 
Date: Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 10:23 AM
Subject: [Wiki-research-l] New guide for organizing Edit-a-thons at science
conferences
To: Wiki Research-l 


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 organizing, publicizing, and running editathons and is tuned to the
needs and interests of science SMEs.

Forwarding because I know there are many folks on this list who are
involved in this sort of work and/or could be.

Cheers,
Jonathan

1.
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/education-outreach/crowdsourcing-expertise/
2.
http://simonsfoundation.s3.amazonaws.com/share/sciencesandbox/
CrowdsourcingExpertise_4.7.17.pdf

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

[attolippip]

and Ukrainian :) and per Amir about instructions

Best regards,
antanana

2017-04-21 20:03 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni :

> If I want this done for Hebrew and Russian, do I just reply to this thread?
> Or did I miss the instructions in the first email? :)
>
> בתאריך 21 באפר׳ 2017 19:46,‏ "Leila Zia"  כתב:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > ==Background==
> > In November 2016, I presented the result of a joint research that
> > helped us understand English Wikipedia readers better. (Presentation
> > at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIaMuWA84bY ). I talked about how
> > we used English, Persian, and Spanish Wikipedia readers' inputs to
> > build a taxonomy of Wikipedia use-cases along several dimensions,
> > capturing users’ motivations to visit Wikipedia, the depth of
> > knowledge they are seeking, and their knowledge of the topic of
> > interest prior to visiting Wikipedia. I also talked about the results
> > of the study we did to quantify the prevalence of these use-cases via
> > a large-scale user survey conducted on English Wikipedia. In that
> > study, we also matched survey responses to the respondents’ digital
> > traces in Wikipedia’s server logs which enabled us in discovering
> > behavioral patterns associated with specific use-cases. You can read
> > the full study at https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05379 .
> >
> > ==What do we want to do now?==
> > There are quite a few directions this research can continue on, and
> > the most immediate one is to understand whether the results that we
> > observe (in English Wikipeida) is robust across languages/cultures.
> > For this, we are going to repeat the study, but this time in more
> > languages. Here are the languages on our list: Arabic, Dutch, English,
> > Hindi, Japanese, Spanish (thanks to all the volunteers who have been
> > helping us translating all survey related documents to these
> > languages.:)
> >
> > ==What about your language?==
> > If your language is not one of the six languages above and you'd like
> > to learn about the readers of Wikipedia in it (in the specific ways
> > described above), please get back to me by Monday, April 24, AoE. I
> > cannot guarantee that we can run the study in your language, however,
> > I guarantee that we will give it a good try if you're interested. The
> > decision to include more languages will depend on: our capacity to do
> > the analysis, the speed at which your community can help us translate
> > the material to the language, the traffic to that language, a couple
> > of sentences on how you'd think the result can help your community,
> > and your willingness to help us document the results for your language
> > at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_
> > Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour
> > (Quite some work will need to go to have readable/usable
> > documentations available and we are too small to be able to guarantee
> > that on our own for many languages.)
> >
> > Best,
> > Leila
> >
> > --
> > Leila Zia
> > Senior Research Scientist
> > Wikimedia Foundation
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

[Amir E. Aharoni]

If I want this done for Hebrew and Russian, do I just reply to this thread?
Or did I miss the instructions in the first email? :)

בתאריך 21 באפר׳ 2017 19:46,‏ "Leila Zia"  כתב:

> Hi all,
>
> ==Background==
> In November 2016, I presented the result of a joint research that
> helped us understand English Wikipedia readers better. (Presentation
> at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIaMuWA84bY ). I talked about how
> we used English, Persian, and Spanish Wikipedia readers' inputs to
> build a taxonomy of Wikipedia use-cases along several dimensions,
> capturing users’ motivations to visit Wikipedia, the depth of
> knowledge they are seeking, and their knowledge of the topic of
> interest prior to visiting Wikipedia. I also talked about the results
> of the study we did to quantify the prevalence of these use-cases via
> a large-scale user survey conducted on English Wikipedia. In that
> study, we also matched survey responses to the respondents’ digital
> traces in Wikipedia’s server logs which enabled us in discovering
> behavioral patterns associated with specific use-cases. You can read
> the full study at https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05379 .
>
> ==What do we want to do now?==
> There are quite a few directions this research can continue on, and
> the most immediate one is to understand whether the results that we
> observe (in English Wikipeida) is robust across languages/cultures.
> For this, we are going to repeat the study, but this time in more
> languages. Here are the languages on our list: Arabic, Dutch, English,
> Hindi, Japanese, Spanish (thanks to all the volunteers who have been
> helping us translating all survey related documents to these
> languages.:)
>
> ==What about your language?==
> If your language is not one of the six languages above and you'd like
> to learn about the readers of Wikipedia in it (in the specific ways
> described above), please get back to me by Monday, April 24, AoE. I
> cannot guarantee that we can run the study in your language, however,
> I guarantee that we will give it a good try if you're interested. The
> decision to include more languages will depend on: our capacity to do
> the analysis, the speed at which your community can help us translate
> the material to the language, the traffic to that language, a couple
> of sentences on how you'd think the result can help your community,
> and your willingness to help us document the results for your language
> at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_
> Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour
> (Quite some work will need to go to have readable/usable
> documentations available and we are too small to be able to guarantee
> that on our own for many languages.)
>
> Best,
> Leila
>
> --
> Leila Zia
> Senior Research Scientist
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
The DOI is..
Thanks,
 GerardM

On 21 April 2017 at 18:58, Gerard Meijssen 
wrote:

> Hoi,
> Is this paper behind a paywall ?
> Thanks,
>  GerardM
>
> On 21 April 2017 at 18:45, Leila Zia  wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> ==Background==
>> In November 2016, I presented the result of a joint research that
>> helped us understand English Wikipedia readers better. (Presentation
>> at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIaMuWA84bY ). I talked about how
>> we used English, Persian, and Spanish Wikipedia readers' inputs to
>> build a taxonomy of Wikipedia use-cases along several dimensions,
>> capturing users’ motivations to visit Wikipedia, the depth of
>> knowledge they are seeking, and their knowledge of the topic of
>> interest prior to visiting Wikipedia. I also talked about the results
>> of the study we did to quantify the prevalence of these use-cases via
>> a large-scale user survey conducted on English Wikipedia. In that
>> study, we also matched survey responses to the respondents’ digital
>> traces in Wikipedia’s server logs which enabled us in discovering
>> behavioral patterns associated with specific use-cases. You can read
>> the full study at https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05379 .
>>
>> ==What do we want to do now?==
>> There are quite a few directions this research can continue on, and
>> the most immediate one is to understand whether the results that we
>> observe (in English Wikipeida) is robust across languages/cultures.
>> For this, we are going to repeat the study, but this time in more
>> languages. Here are the languages on our list: Arabic, Dutch, English,
>> Hindi, Japanese, Spanish (thanks to all the volunteers who have been
>> helping us translating all survey related documents to these
>> languages.:)
>>
>> ==What about your language?==
>> If your language is not one of the six languages above and you'd like
>> to learn about the readers of Wikipedia in it (in the specific ways
>> described above), please get back to me by Monday, April 24, AoE. I
>> cannot guarantee that we can run the study in your language, however,
>> I guarantee that we will give it a good try if you're interested. The
>> decision to include more languages will depend on: our capacity to do
>> the analysis, the speed at which your community can help us translate
>> the material to the language, the traffic to that language, a couple
>> of sentences on how you'd think the result can help your community,
>> and your willingness to help us document the results for your language
>> at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wiki
>> pedia_Reader_Behaviour
>> (Quite some work will need to go to have readable/usable
>> documentations available and we are too small to be able to guarantee
>> that on our own for many languages.)
>>
>> Best,
>> Leila
>>
>> --
>> Leila Zia
>> Senior Research Scientist
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Is this paper behind a paywall ?
Thanks,
 GerardM

On 21 April 2017 at 18:45, Leila Zia  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> ==Background==
> In November 2016, I presented the result of a joint research that
> helped us understand English Wikipedia readers better. (Presentation
> at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIaMuWA84bY ). I talked about how
> we used English, Persian, and Spanish Wikipedia readers' inputs to
> build a taxonomy of Wikipedia use-cases along several dimensions,
> capturing users’ motivations to visit Wikipedia, the depth of
> knowledge they are seeking, and their knowledge of the topic of
> interest prior to visiting Wikipedia. I also talked about the results
> of the study we did to quantify the prevalence of these use-cases via
> a large-scale user survey conducted on English Wikipedia. In that
> study, we also matched survey responses to the respondents’ digital
> traces in Wikipedia’s server logs which enabled us in discovering
> behavioral patterns associated with specific use-cases. You can read
> the full study at https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05379 .
>
> ==What do we want to do now?==
> There are quite a few directions this research can continue on, and
> the most immediate one is to understand whether the results that we
> observe (in English Wikipeida) is robust across languages/cultures.
> For this, we are going to repeat the study, but this time in more
> languages. Here are the languages on our list: Arabic, Dutch, English,
> Hindi, Japanese, Spanish (thanks to all the volunteers who have been
> helping us translating all survey related documents to these
> languages.:)
>
> ==What about your language?==
> If your language is not one of the six languages above and you'd like
> to learn about the readers of Wikipedia in it (in the specific ways
> described above), please get back to me by Monday, April 24, AoE. I
> cannot guarantee that we can run the study in your language, however,
> I guarantee that we will give it a good try if you're interested. The
> decision to include more languages will depend on: our capacity to do
> the analysis, the speed at which your community can help us translate
> the material to the language, the traffic to that language, a couple
> of sentences on how you'd think the result can help your community,
> and your willingness to help us document the results for your language
> at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_
> Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour
> (Quite some work will need to go to have readable/usable
> documentations available and we are too small to be able to guarantee
> that on our own for many languages.)
>
> Best,
> Leila
>
> --
> Leila Zia
> Senior Research Scientist
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

[Leila Zia]

Hi all,

==Background==
In November 2016, I presented the result of a joint research that
helped us understand English Wikipedia readers better. (Presentation
at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIaMuWA84bY ). I talked about how
we used English, Persian, and Spanish Wikipedia readers' inputs to
build a taxonomy of Wikipedia use-cases along several dimensions,
capturing users’ motivations to visit Wikipedia, the depth of
knowledge they are seeking, and their knowledge of the topic of
interest prior to visiting Wikipedia. I also talked about the results
of the study we did to quantify the prevalence of these use-cases via
a large-scale user survey conducted on English Wikipedia. In that
study, we also matched survey responses to the respondents’ digital
traces in Wikipedia’s server logs which enabled us in discovering
behavioral patterns associated with specific use-cases. You can read
the full study at https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05379 .

==What do we want to do now?==
There are quite a few directions this research can continue on, and
the most immediate one is to understand whether the results that we
observe (in English Wikipeida) is robust across languages/cultures.
For this, we are going to repeat the study, but this time in more
languages. Here are the languages on our list: Arabic, Dutch, English,
Hindi, Japanese, Spanish (thanks to all the volunteers who have been
helping us translating all survey related documents to these
languages.:)

==What about your language?==
If your language is not one of the six languages above and you'd like
to learn about the readers of Wikipedia in it (in the specific ways
described above), please get back to me by Monday, April 24, AoE. I
cannot guarantee that we can run the study in your language, however,
I guarantee that we will give it a good try if you're interested. The
decision to include more languages will depend on: our capacity to do
the analysis, the speed at which your community can help us translate
the material to the language, the traffic to that language, a couple
of sentences on how you'd think the result can help your community,
and your willingness to help us document the results for your language
at 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour
(Quite some work will need to go to have readable/usable
documentations available and we are too small to be able to guarantee
that on our own for many languages.)

Best,
Leila

--
Leila Zia
Senior Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation

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