Thanks Aaron - looks like an exciting quarter! Congrats on the ORES betas. -Toby
On Wednesday, April 6, 2016, Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey folks! > > I'm happy to announce that the Wikimedia Research team's goals > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Goals#April_-_June_2016_.28Q4.29> > for the next quarter (April - July 2016) are up on the wiki. > > The Research and Data > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research#Research_and_Data> > team will deploy the ORES extension > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ORES> that makes revision > scoring as a service <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/R:Revscoring> available > within the wiki to Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia as a beta feature. We're > also digging into studies of discussion modeling. We'll be releasing > datasets of on-wiki discussions and starting our own modeling work to try > to detect harassment & personal attacks. We'll be hosting three workshops: > WikiCite <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite> in Berlin and the Wiki > Workshop 2016 <http://snap.stanford.edu/wikiworkshop2016/> at WWW and > ICWSM. We'll be extending our work surveying readers > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/R:Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour/S3-English_Large_Scale> > last quarter by digging into data analysis. > > The Design Research > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research#Design_Research> team > will support the use of pragmatic personas > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Personas_for_product_development> in > product development and analyze data on on Reader, New Editor and New > Reader personas. We'll also continue supporting ongoing user-facing > projects in Editing, Reading, Search and Community Engagement. We'll > perform a new set of deep-dive interviews in Nigeria to extend the > deep-dive interviews recently completed for Mexico. We'll deploy surveys > to University of Washington students > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Publicly_available_online_learning_resource_survey> > and complete the analysis of results. We'll also create a project plan for > benchmarking UX characteristics of Wikimedia software and to create a > stable testing environment to support our user studies of software changes. > > > We're constantly looking for contributors and as usual we welcome feedback > on these projects via the corresponding talk pages on Meta. You can contact > us for any question on IRC via the #wikimedia- > <http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-research>research > <http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-research> channel and > follow @WikiResearch <https://twitter.com/WikiResearch> on Twitter for > the latest Wikipedia and Wikimedia research updates hot off the press. > > -Aaron (on behalf of the team) >
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