A reminder that the livestream will start in an hour (11:30am PT / 7:30pm UTC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmrlu5qTgyA
If you want to learn more about perceptions of privacy and safety among Tor users and Wikimedia contributors or are eager to know how much high-quality content gender-focused initiatives have contributed to Wikipedia, come and join us today (the discussion will be hosted on IRC). Dario On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Sarah R <srodl...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, > December 21, 2016 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 (UTC). > > YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmrlu5qTgyA > > 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#December_2016> > . > > The December 2016 Research Showcase includes: > > English Wikipedia Quality Dynamics and the Case of WikiProject Women > ScientistsBy *Aaron Halfaker > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Halfak_(WMF)>*With every productive > edit, Wikipedia is steadily progressing towards higher and higher quality. > In order to track quality improvements, Wikipedians have developed an > article quality assessment rating scale that ranges from "Stub" at the > bottom to "Featured Articles" at the top. While this quality scale has the > promise of giving us insights into the dynamics of quality improvements in > Wikipedia, it is hard to use due to the sporadic nature of manual > re-assessments. By developing a highly accurate prediction model (based on > work by Warncke-Wang et al.), we've developed a method to assess an > articles quality at any point in history. Using this model, we explore > general trends in quality in Wikipedia and compare these trends to those of > an interesting cross-section: Articles tagged by WikiProject Women > Scientists. Results suggest that articles about women scientists were lower > quality than the rest of the wiki until mid-2013, after which a dramatic > shift occurred towards higher quality. This shift may correlate with (and > even be caused by) this WikiProjects initiatives. > > > Privacy, Anonymity, and Perceived Risk in Open Collaboration. A Study of > Tor Users and WikipediansBy *Andrea Forte*In a recent qualitative study > to be published at CSCW 2017, collaborators Rachel Greenstadt, Naz > Andalibi, and I examined privacy practices and concerns among contributors > to open collaboration projects. We collected interview data from people who > use the anonymity network Tor who also contribute to online projects and > from Wikipedia editors who are concerned about their privacy to better > understand how privacy concerns impact participation in open collaboration > projects. We found that risks perceived by contributors to open > collaboration projects include threats of surveillance, violence, > harassment, opportunity loss, reputation loss, and fear for loved ones. We > explain participants’ operational and technical strategies for mitigating > these risks and how these strategies affect their contributions. Finally, > we discuss chilling effects associated with privacy loss, the need for open > collaboration projects to go beyond attracting and educating participants > to consider their privacy, and some of the social and technical approaches > that could be explored to mitigate risk at a project or community level. > > -- > Sarah R. Rodlund > Senior Project Coordinator-Engineering, Wikimedia Foundation > srodl...@wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > Research-wmf mailing list > research-...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/research-wmf > > -- *Dario Taraborelli *Director, Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
