Erik, thanks for your great work on stats, and welcome back to the volunteer force. Where the real work is done :-)
Magnus On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 10:31 AM Sandra Rientjes - Wikimedia Nederland < rient...@wikimedia.nl> wrote: > Dear Erik, > > Many thanks for all the help and support you gave Wikimedia Nederland and > myself over the past years. Whenever we had tricky stats-related questions, > we knew we could turn to you. > > I hope to see you at many WMNL-events in the future. > > Enjoy the freedom! > > Best, > > Sandra > > > Sandra Rientjes > Directeur/Executive Director Wikimedia Nederland > > tel. (+31) (0)30 3200238 <+31%2030%20320%200238> (ma, di, do) > mob. (+31) (0)6 31786379 <+31%206%2031786379> (wo, vrij) > > www.wikimedia.nl > > > Mariaplaats 3 > 3511 LH Utrecht > > > Op do 7 feb. 2019 om 11:22 schreef rupert THURNER < > rupert.thur...@gmail.com > >: > > > Many thanks erik and all the best!! One sentence in eriks blog post > cited i > > found surprising. What type of modesty you guys were talking about? > > > > "At Wikimania London (2014) I talked about how we should err on the side > of > > modesty. That message never came across. I started to have a discussion > on > > this within WMF but failed to bring this to fruition. My bad." > > > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2019, 22:18 Dario Taraborelli <dtarabore...@wikimedia.org > > wrote: > > > > > “[R]ecent revisions of an article can be peeled off to reveal older > > layers, > > > which are still meaningful for historians. Even graffiti applied by > > vandals > > > can by its sheer informality convey meaningful information, just like > > > historians learned a lot from graffiti on walls of classic Pompei. > > Likewise > > > view patterns can tell future historians a lot about what was hot and > > what > > > wasn’t in our times. Reason why these raw view data are meant to be > > > preserved for a long time.” > > > > > > Erik Zachte wrote these lines in a blog post > > > < > > > > > > https://web.archive.org/web/20171018194720/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/07/michael-jackson/ > > > > > > > almost > > > ten years ago, and I cannot find better words to describe the gift he > > gave > > > us. Erik retired <http://infodisiac.com/back_to_volunteer_mode.htm> > this > > > past Friday, leaving behind an immense legacy. I had the honor to work > > with > > > him for several years, and I hosted this morning an intimate, tearful > > > celebration of what Erik has represented for the Wikimedia movement. > > > > > > His Wikistats project <https://stats.wikimedia.org/>—with his > signature > > > pale yellow background we've known and loved since the mid 2000s > > > < > https://web.archive.org/web/20060412043240/https://stats.wikimedia.org/ > > > >—has > > > been much more than an "analytics platform". It's been an individual > > > attempt he initiated, and grew over time, to try and comprehend and > make > > > sense of the largest open collaboration project in human history, > driven > > by > > > curiosity and by an insatiable desire to serve data to the communities > > that > > > most needed it. > > > > > > Through this project, Erik has created a live record of data describing > > the > > > growth and reach of all Wikimedia communities, across languages and > > > projects, putting multi-lingualism and smaller communities at the very > > > center of his attention. He coined metrics such as "active editors" > that > > > defined the benchmark for volunteers, the Wikimedia Foundation, and the > > > academic community to understand some of the growing pains and editor > > > retention issues > > > < > > > > > > https://web.archive.org/web/20110608214507/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/12/new-editors-are-joining-english-wikipedia-in-droves/ > > > > > > > the movement has faced. He created countless reports—that predate by > > nearly > > > a decade modern visualizations of online attention—to understand what > > > Wikipedia traffic means in the context of current events like elections > > > < > > > > > > https://web.archive.org/web/20160405055621/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2008/09/sarah-palin/ > > > > > > > or public health crises > > > < > > > > > > https://web.archive.org/web/20090708011216/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/05/h1n1-flu-or-new-flu-or/ > > > >. > > > He has created countless > > > <https://twitter.com/Infodisiac/status/1039244151953543169> > > visualizations > > > < > > > > > > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/27/new-interactive-visualization-wikipedia/ > > > > > > > that show the enormous gaps in local language content and > representation > > > that, as a movement, we face in our efforts to build an encyclopedia > for > > > and about everyone. He has also made extensive use of pie charts > > > < > > > > > > https://web.archive.org/web/20141222073751/http://infodisiac.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/piechartscorrected.png > > > >, > > > which—as friends—we are ready to turn a blind eye towards. > > > > > > Most importantly, the data Erik has brougth to life has been cited over > > > 1,000 times > > > < > > > > > > https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=stats.wikimedia.org > > > > > > > in the scholarly literature. If we gave credit to open data creators in > > the > > > same way as we credit authors of scholarly papers, Erik would be one of > > the > > > most influential authors in the field, and I don't think it is much of > a > > > stretch to say that the massive trove of data and metrics Erik has made > > > available had a direct causal role in the birth and growth of the > > academic > > > field of Wikimedia research, and more broadly, scholarship of online > > > collaboration. > > > > > > Like I said this morning, Erik -- you have been not only an invaluable > > > colleague and a steward for the movement, but also a very decent human > > > being, and I am grateful we shared some of this journey together. > > > > > > Please join me in celebrating Erik on his well-deserved retirement, > read > > > his statement <http://infodisiac.com/back_to_volunteer_mode.htm> to > > learn > > > what he's planning to do next, or check this lovely portrait > > > <https://www.wired.com/2013/12/erik-zachte-wikistats/> Wired > published a > > > while back about "the Stats Master Making Sense of Wikipedia's Massive > > Data > > > Trove". > > > > > > Dario > > > > > > > > > -- > > > *Dario Taraborelli *Director, Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation > > > research.wikimedia.org • nitens.org • @readermeter > > > <http://twitter.com/readermeter> > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > 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> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > 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> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > 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> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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>
