On 23 Mar 2011, at 20:46, Erik Zachte wrote: > In Wikimania Boston, 2006, visualization experts [1] Fernanda Viégas en > Martin Wattenberg presented a tool which could produce a tag cloud from a > person's edit history. Tag clouds were a novelty and very suitable for the > matter at hand. You could see at a glance that editor Johanna Doe was mainly > engaged in articles about say classic music, and Chinese and Iran politics, > which is OK of course, but maybe better left to the person to disclose at > her own discretion.
Or to view privately, to understand his/her own editing history. I'd be very interested in using such a tool in that way. > We discussed implications of the visualization: on one > hand this was all data from the public dumps, and anyone could make such a > script once the idea spread, on the other hand would it be wise to help > facilitate this process. I later found out they decided not to publish the > tool for this very reason. Regarding ethics, and adding to Andrea's email, the ACM code of ethics may give a useful idea: http://www.acm.org/about/code-of-ethics Many other professional societies have similar codes. -Jodi > > [1] See first two entries on http://infodisiac.com/Wikimedia/Visualizations/ > > Erik Zachte > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fae > Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 10:45 > To: [email protected]; Research into Wikimedia content and communities > Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] edit counts for specific users > > Hi, > > Please take care to stay within the policy stated at > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy - if you are researching in > general there is no issue but if you are analysing/data mining a specific > editor's contributions it should be for a recognized bureaucratic purpose. > > Cheers, > Fæ > -- > http://enwp.org/user_talk:fae > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
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