Dario, Are the streams recorded?
Sounds interesting! -Jodi On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:06 AM, Dario Taraborelli < [email protected]> wrote: > Starting tomorrow (February 26), we will be broadcasting the monthly > showcase <http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikiResearchShowcase> of the > Wikimedia Research and Data team. > > The showcase is an opportunity to present and discuss recent work > researchers at the Foundation have been conducting. The showcase will start > at 11.30 Pacific Time and we will post a link to the stream a few minutes > before it starts. You can also join the conversation on the > #wikimedia-office IRC channel on freenode (we'll be sticking around after > the end of the showcase to answer any question). > > This month, we'll be talking about Wikipedia mobile readers and article > creation trends: > > Oliver Keyes > *Mobile session times * > A prerequisite to many pieces of interesting reader research is being able > to accurately identify the length of users' 'sessions'. I will explain one > potential way of doing it, how I've applied it to mobile readers, and what > research this opens up. (20 mins) > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Mobile_sessions > > Aaron Halfaker > *Wikipedia article creation research* > I'll present research examining trends in newcomer article creation across > 10 languages with a focus on English and German Wikipedias. I'll show > that, in wikis where anonymous users can create articles, their articles > are less likely to be deleted than articles created by newly registered > editors. I'll also show the results of an in-depth analysis of Articles > for Creation (AfC) which suggest that while AfC's process seems to result > in the publication of high quality articles, it also dramatically reduces > the rate at which good new articles are published. (30 mins) > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation > > Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow! > > Dario > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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