just a friendly reminder, that research office hours will start in ~20 minutes. Martin
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 10:50 AM Martin Gerlach <mgerl...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly > Office hours on 2021-03-16 at 16:00-17:00 UTC (9am PT/5pm CET). > > To participate, join the video-call via this link [2]. There is no set > agenda - feel free to add your item to the list of topics in the etherpad > [3] (You can do this after you join the meeting, too.), otherwise you are > welcome to also just hang out. More detailed information (e.g. about how to > attend) can be found here [4]. > > Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves more available to > answer some of the research related questions that you as Wikimedia > volunteer editors, organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in > your projects and initiatives. Some example cases we hope to be able to > support you in: > > - > > You have a specific research related question that you suspect you > should be able to answer with the publicly available data and you don’t > know how to find an answer for it, or you just need some more help with it. > For example, how can I compute the ratio of anonymous to registered editors > in my wiki? > - > > You run into repetitive or very manual work as part of your Wikimedia > contributions and you wish to find out if there are ways to use machines to > improve your workflows. These types of conversations can sometimes be > harder to find an answer for during an office hour, however, discussing > them can help us understand your challenges better and we may find ways to > work with each other to support you in addressing it in the future. > - > > You want to learn what the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation > does and how we can potentially support you. Specifically for affiliates: > if you are interested in building relationships with the academic > institutions in your country, we would love to talk with you and learn > more. We have a series of programs that aim to expand the network of > Wikimedia researchers globally and we would love to collaborate with those > of you interested more closely in this space. > - > > You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [5]. > > > Hope to see many of you, > Martin (WMF Research Team) > > [1] https://research.wikimedia.org/team.html > > [2] https://meet.jit.si/WMF-Research-Office-Hours > > [3] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Research-Analytics-Office-hours > > [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours > [5] https://research.wikimedia.org/projects.html > > -- > Martin Gerlach > Research Scientist > Wikimedia Foundation > -- Martin Gerlach Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation
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