Thanks for forwarding this Sumana, just a quick note that the DataHub seems to have problems with file uploads at the moment, so expect the full non-enwiki data to be available in the coming days.
On Oct 12, 2012, at 2:23 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]> wrote: > Thought the researchers on this list might enjoy having another dataset > to play with. :-) > > -Sumana Harihareswara > Engineering Community Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Prefs removal > Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:18:37 -0700 > From: Erik Moeller <[email protected]> > Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> > To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> > > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've pinged analytics to see if they can get us a better prefs report. > > Dario Taraborelli has kindly made a detailed dataset of preferences > available. He can chime in with details if needed. > > The dataset can be found here: > > http://thedatahub.org/dataset/wikipedia-user-preferences > > These datasets capture the following: > > - user_properties set to '' from the default -> active_prefs_0 > - user_properties set to 1 from the default -> active_prefs_1 > -> NOTE: This can be very misleading for non-boolean prefs > - user_properties set to !='' from the default -> active_prefs_all > > This is based on a dataset of _active_ users which is included. > Unchanged prefs aren't included, specific non-boolean settings aren't > included, and prefs with < 5 users aren't included. This is en.wp, > other languages to follow. > > Note there's all kinds of funkiness with how prefs may be serialized > to the DB - prefs names and defaults may have changed, prefs may have > been removed, and some stuff is serialized when it doesn't need to be > (suggesting that prefs have been changed, when in fact the user has > just performed a pref save). But for a lot of the more obscure prefs > this should be good initial guidance. > > Will post some initial observations to > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Core_user_preferences > > -- > Erik Möller > VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
