Hi Leila, I'm curious about the in-depth reading differences according to the socio-economic status. Why do you think such differences exist?
Regards, Micru On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 1:15 AM Leila Zia <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > As some of you know, we started a line of research back in 2016 to > understand Wikipedia readers better. We published the first taxonomy > of Wikipedia readers and we studied and characterized the reader types > in English Wikipedia [1]. During the past 1+ year, we focused on > learning about the potential differences of Wikipedia readers across > languages based on the taxonomy built in [1]. We've learned a lot, and > today we're sharing what we learnt with you. > > Some pointers: > * Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.00474 > * Data: > https://figshare.com/articles/Why_the_World_Reads_Wikipedia/7579937/1 > * (under continuous improvement) Research page on meta: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour > * Research showcase presentation: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#December_2018 > * A series of presentations to WMF teams and community: Look for tasks > under https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201699 with title "Present > the results of WtWRW" for link to slides and more info when available. > * We will send out a blog post about it hopefully soon. A blog post > about the intermediate results is at > https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/03/15/why-the-world-reads-wikipedia/ > > In a nutshell: > * We ran the taxonomy of Wikipedia readers in 14 languages and > measured the prevalence of Wikipedia use-cases and characterized > Wikipedia readers in these languages. > * While we observe similarities in terms of the prevalence of the use > cases as well as the way we can characterize readers, we can see that > Wikipedia languages lend themselves to different distributions of > readership and characteristics. In many cases, the one-size-fit-all > solutions may simply not work for readers. > * Intrinsic learning remains as the number one motivation for people > to come to Wikipedia in the majority of the languages, followed by > media. > * In-depth reading and the reading of scientific oriented topics is > highly and negatively correlated with the socio-economic status and > Human Development Index of countries the readers in these languages > are coming from. Long articles that may seem just too long for the > bulk of our audience in US, Japan, and the Netherlands is in high > demand in India, Bolivia, Argentina, Panamá, México, … > * ... > > This research was not possible without the extensive contributions by > our formal collaborators: Florian Lemmerich (RWTH Aachen University) > and Bob West (EPFL). On the WMF end, I was fortunate to work with > Diego Saez on this project as well as more recently, Isaac Johnson. > And all those in the Reading Web and Legal team who supported us > throughout the process. I also want to underline the amazing work that > the volunteers in the languages in the study did to support us heavily > to learn more about their languages, not only through help with > communications within their communities but also with the translation > task which was not an easy one as they were asked to offer their time > not only to translate but also do in-person meetings with us for us to > make sure the intent of the question is translated the same way across > the languages. Usernames Strainu, Tgr, Amire80, Awossink, Antanana, > Lyzzy, Shangkuanlc, Whym, Kaganer, عباد_ديرانية, Satdeep_Gill, Racso, > Hasive: Thank you! > > Next we are going to extend this study to include demographics > information. More information about it coming out in the next few > weeks. (And I will send out a separate email to wikimedia-l about this > topic and future research over the weekend. I need some time to > finalize the message to make the message most useful for that > audience.:) > > Best, > Leila > > > [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05379 > > -- > Leila Zia > Senior Research Scientist, Lead > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > -- Etiamsi omnes, ego non _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
