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Greetings Fellow Wiki Researchers! Along with fellow Wikimedians Jonathan Morgan and Frances Hocutt (and many others), I am helping run three and a half day-long workshops in November for anyone interested in learning how to use programming and data science tools to ask and answer questions about online communities with a strong focus on doing research on Wikipedia. This will be a new and improved version of the workshops we ran successfully earlier this year. You will need to be in Seattle to participate or volunteer in our workshops. That said, you can /totally/ build on our curriculum to run your own workshops. One group in Waterloo already has! Details on how to do that are online (http://mako.cc/go/03) and we'd be happy to help! If you /are/ in Seattle... The workshops are for people with no previous programming experience and will be free of charge and open to anyone. Our goal is that, after the three workshops, participants will be able to use data to produce numbers, hypothesis tests, tables, and graphical visualizations to answer questions like: - Are new contributors to an article in Wikipedia sticking around longer or contributing more than people who joined last year? - Who are the most active or influential users of a particular Twitter hashtag? - Are people who participated in a Wikipedia outreach event staying involved? How do they compare to people that joined the project outside of the event? Details and dates are online here: http://networkcollectiv.es/2014/10/16/cdsw-november-2014/ If you are interested in participating, fill out our registration at the link above before October 30th. If you already know how to program in Python, it would be really awesome if you would volunteer as a mentor! Being a mentor will involve working with participants and talking them through the challenges they encounter in programming. No special preparation is required. If you’re interested, send me an email. Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill http://mako.cc/ Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto
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