Hello everyone, Just a reminder that the Wikimedia Research Showcase will be happening in about 10 minutes.
Thank you! On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 2:00 PM Sarah R <srodl...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > The second abstract was cut short in the first email. Here is the full > version: > > Deliberation and resolution on WikipediaA case study of requests for > commentsBy *Amy Zhang, Jane Im*Resolving disputes in a timely manner is > crucial for any online production group. We present an analysis of Requests > for Comments (RfCs), one of the main vehicles on Wikipedia for formally > resolving a policy or content dispute. We collected an exhaustive dataset > of 7,316 RfCs on English Wikipedia over the course of 7 years and conducted > a qualitative and quantitative analysis into what issues affect the RfC > process. Our analysis was informed by 10 interviews with frequent RfC > closers. We found that a major issue affecting the RfC process is the > prevalence of RfCs that could have benefited from formal closure but that > linger indefinitely without one, with factors including participants' > interest and expertise impacting the likelihood of resolution. From these > findings, we developed a model that predicts whether an RfC will go stale > with 75.3% accuracy, a level that is approached as early as one week after > dispute initiation. > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 1:43 PM Sarah R <srodl...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> The next Wikimedia Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday, >> September 19 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC. >> >> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY8vZ6wES9o >> >> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. >> And, you can watch our past research showcases here. >> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#Upcoming_Showcase> >> >> Hope to see you there! >> >> This month's presentations is: >> >> The impact of news exposure on collective attention in the United States >> during the 2016 Zika epidemicBy *Michele Tizzoni, André Panisson, >> Daniela Paolotti, Ciro Cattuto*In recent years, many studies have drawn >> attention to the important role of collective awareness and human behaviour >> during epidemic outbreaks. A number of modelling efforts have investigated >> the interaction between the disease transmission dynamics and human >> behaviour change mediated by news coverage and by information spreading in >> the population. Yet, given the scarcity of data on public awareness during >> an epidemic, few studies have relied on empirical data. Here, we use >> fine-grained, geo-referenced data from three online sources - Wikipedia, >> the GDELT Project and the Internet Archive - to quantify population-scale >> information seeking about the 2016 Zika virus epidemic in the U.S., >> explicitly linking such behavioural signal to epidemiological data. >> Geo-localized Wikipedia pageview data reveal that visiting patterns of >> Zika-related pages in Wikipedia were highly synchronized across the United >> States and largely explained by exposure to national television broadcast. >> Contrary to the assumption of some theoretical models, news volume and >> Wikipedia visiting patterns were not significantly correlated with the >> magnitude or the extent of the epidemic. Attention to Zika, in terms of >> Zika-related Wikipedia pageviews, was high at the beginning of the >> outbreak, when public health agencies raised an international alert and >> triggered media coverage, but subsequently exhibited an activity profile >> that suggests nonlinear dependencies and memory effects in the relationship >> between information seeking, media pressure, and disease dynamics. This >> calls for a new and more general modelling framework to describe the >> interaction between media exposure, public awareness, and disease dynamics >> during epidemic outbreaks. >> >> >> Deliberation and resolution on WikipediaA case study of requests for >> commentsBy *Amy Zhang, Jane Im*Resolving disputes in a timely manner is >> crucial for any online production group. We present an analysis of Requests >> for Comments (RfCs), one of the main vehicles on Wikipedia for formally >> resolving a policy or content dispute. We collected an exhaustive dataset >> of 7,316 RfCs on English Wikipedia over the course of 7 years and conducted >> a qualitative and quantitative analysis into what issues affect the RfC >> process. Our analysis was informed by 10 interviews with frequent RfC >> closers. We found that a major issue affecting the RfC process is the >> prevalence of RfCs that could have benefited from formal closure but that >> linger indefinitely without one, with factors including participants' >> interest and expertise impacting the likelihood of resolution. From these >> findings, we developed a model that predicts whether >> >> -- >> Sarah R. Rodlund >> Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy> >> srodl...@wikimedia.org >> >> >> >> >> > > -- > Sarah R. Rodlund > Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy> > srodl...@wikimedia.org > > > *“I am a jug filled with water both magic and plain; I have only to lean > over, and a stream of beautiful thoughts flows out of me.” * > > ― Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude > -- Sarah R. Rodlund Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy> srodl...@wikimedia.org *“I am a jug filled with water both magic and plain; I have only to lean over, and a stream of beautiful thoughts flows out of me.” * ― Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
