Hoi,
Forgot to include the URL
[1] http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm
Sorry,
Gerard
On 6 March 2014 09:17, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hoi Dario,
> When you look at the statistics [1], you find that the number of page
> views in English is going down faster than in the other languages combined.
> You also find that the percentage of readers for the top ten Wikipedias in
> size is slowly but surely decreasing (now at 88.94%). How can we decrease
> this percentage even more without sacrificing the number of page views for
> the top 10?
>
> Has there been any research in how we can stimulate the growth in
> Wikipedias that are not part of the top 10%. Do we know to what extend the
> English Wikipedia model works for these other languages or is a hindrance.
> Do we know what people are looking for in the smaller Wikipedias and do we
> know what they do / do not find. Do we know how people find articles in
> those languages, does this work in the same way as it does for English? Is
> it possible that we have to cultivate contacts with the local "Googles" in
> order to grow attention for what we have to offer.
>
> Do we know what the effect is of the new search engine that is much better
> at providing results in other scripts? Do we know to what extend inter
> language links are created and, do we know how this has changed since the
> move to Wikidata?
>
> Dario, can you please tell us to what extend the other languages are
> studied at all? Do we know what effect they have? Do we know about the
> experience of these Wikipedias locally? Do we care about the typography in
> other scripts? Do we know about the NPOV in the small projects? Do we know
> about gender diversity in the smaller languages. How about cultural bias
> and how does this compare to the cultural bias in the big projects?
>
> Dario there is so much that we do not know, have not touched. Why study
> more of what has been studied to death?
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
>
> On 6 March 2014 02:25, Dario Taraborelli <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> these are highlights from a session the Wikimedia Foundation’s Research
>> & Data team
>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Research_and_Data>hosted at CSCW
>> ’14 in Baltimore. The audience was a group of researchers
>> either working on Wikipedia/Wikimedia-related research projects or
>> interested in learning about opportunities to collaborate with the
>> Foundation.
>>
>> Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions/comments.
>> Contact
>>
>> - Dario Taraborelli - [email protected]
>> - Aaron Halfaker - [email protected]
>> - Jonathan Morgan - [email protected]
>>
>>
>> IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-research
>> (webclient<http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-research>
>> )
>>
>> Mailing list: wiki-research-l (mailing
>> list<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l>
>> )
>>
>> Resources
>> We gave a short overview of existing resources of potential interest to
>> Wikipedia/Wikimedia researchers:
>>
>>
>> - OAuth allows 3rd-party software to edit Wikipedia on behalf of a
>> Wikipedia editor and it’s a (mostly untapped) opportunity to run
>> experimental research or test new interfaces targeted at Wikipedians.
>> See:
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OAuth#Using_OAuth
>> - Data portal summarizes data sources that are currently available to
>> researchers and app developers. See:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Data
>> - Wikimedia Research Newsletter: A monthly overview reviewing or
>> summarizing recent research (contributions are welcome, please contact
>> Dario if you’re interested in contributing)
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter
>>
>> Subject recruitment. Aaron and Dario have managed a
>> process<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Subject_recruitment>for
>> documenting and vetting subject recruitment occurring on Wikimedia
>> projects. This process was set in place to help resolve the tension
>> between researchers’ need to recruit subjects and editors’ desire to not be
>> bothered. The process involves a public discussion and mentorship in order
>> to ensure that proposed studies that affect editors are well documented,
>> are addressing original questions and do not result in unnecessary
>> disruption of wiki work. This is a service we’ve been providing on a
>> volunteer basis as members of the Research Committee, it’s meant to offer
>> support to researchers but doesn’t eliminate the risk that an account used
>> for recruitment purposes might be blocked by an administrator. IRBs and
>> minors. One of the issues that we discussed is dealing with IRB & other
>> ethics boards’ requirements when studies may result in interaction with
>> minors. Aaron <[email protected]> is willing to discuss the issue
>> with researchers and university staff upon request. Annual survey
>> modules. Interest was expressed in exploring strategies for expanding
>> the annual editor/reader survey with new questions contributed by
>> researchers. At this point (March 2014) we cannot commit to any such
>> project, but in general there is potential for cooperations between WMF and
>> academic researchers in this area. Interested parties should contact Tilman
>> Bayer (tbayer at wikimedia dot org) who has been conducting the last WMF
>> editor survey and can provide information about these surveys (methodology,
>> results, available data etc.) and their calendar.
>> WikiResearch Workshop at CSCW 2015. We discussed planning a workshop for
>> CSCW next year. Anyone who is interested in collaborating, please contact
>> us. Details are TBD, but our general goals include:
>>
>> - increase awareness of the public data resources that are available
>> - highlight research areas that are ripe for investigation, esp.
>> where WMF could benefit from the results
>> - get a better sense of what kind of data resources (and/or what data
>> formats) researchers would like to have
>> - brainstorm a (lightweight, ethical, practical) model for
>> partnership between WMF and academic research orgs that want access to
>> certain non-public data
>>
>>
>> Wiki Research Hackathons. On Nov. 9th, 2013, we held our first global
>> research hackathon
>> (announcement<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Labs2/Hackathons/November_9th,_2013>).
>> We had universities and other local meetups from around the world connect
>> via Google Hangout to share ideas, data and presentations geared toward
>> datasets, code and other resources. We’ll be planning another hackathon in
>> the coming months. You can help by hosting or attending your own local
>> event. Please contact us if you’re interested.
>>
>> Public listing on WMF’s strategic research questions. We discussed the
>> potential for the Wikimedia Foundation to list out key areas of research
>> that we are interested in. This is something we are keenly interested in
>> and you should expect to hear from us soon through
>> wiki-research-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l>and
>> @WikiResearch <https://twitter.com/WikiResearch>.
>>
>> Tweet @WikiResearch. We maintain a relatively high-visibility twitter
>> account from which we tweet about new research, data, and other
>> initiatives. If you tweet about your own wiki-related work
>> @WikiResearch<https://twitter.com/WikiResearch>,
>> we will retweet it so long as it’s relevant. We will also experiment with
>> the use of this Twitter handle to increase the visibility of libraries and
>> analytics tools to support Wikipedia research.
>>
>> Internships/grad student residencies. We talked briefly about research
>> collaborations, internships and other forms of work opportunities at WMF.
>> We’re actively exploring possibilities and will broadcast details through
>> wiki-research-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l>and
>> @WikiResearch <https://twitter.com/WikiResearch> when we know more.
>>
>> We’re hiring. We are looking to expand the research team at WMF, if you
>> are interested in working with us keep an eye on wiki-research-l and
>> @WikiResearch for job openings or contact us off-list.
>>
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