Kerry, I think given the primacy that Wikipedia now has over information, the data within it is of crucial importance to researchers investigating all manor if things, from information and knowledge management, to social studies, news and journalism and propaganda. For this reason, whether we know of a number of researchers or not, whether our peak bodies for research and data management are up on this or not, if we few see a reason and opportunity to take data and process it now, we should.
Then again, is there a good reason to act now? Isn't the data well managed and preserved where it is now? If some day Australian researchers do gravitate to that data, won't that be the time to develop processing programs? On Jan 11, 2013 8:07 AM, "Kerry Raymond" <[email protected]> wrote: > I just added this to the talk page > > I can certainly gather the names of some Australian researchers who would > be interested in this. But the size would make it a better target for an > RDSI node rather than AARNET. Researchers probably want more than just a > mirrored dump; they would want it extracted and pre-processed in a number > of ways for convenience in mining it in various ways. Most researchers who > work with WIkipedia dumps have to do extensive preprocessing so the desire > to do it once and share is definitely there. I am in conversation with an > RDSI node and the size doesn't seem to faze them, but we would need folks > to volunteer to help with preprocessing it.Kerry > Raymond<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Kerry_Raymond&action=edit&redlink=1> > (talk <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kerry_Raymond>) 20:59, > 10 January 2013 (UTC) > > So if you are an Australian researcher interested in getting this data set > easily accessible to Australian researchers, please let me know. also > please forward to any researcher friends you might have and ask them to > contact me. > > I've previously supervised a phd student who used a 2007 dump (from > memory) and I am aware of other projects at QUT that used Wikipedia dumps > in one way or another. > > Kerry > > > Sent from my iPad > > On 10/01/2013, at 2:51 PM, Leigh Blackall <[email protected]> wrote: > > In what ways should we speak up John? Letters to AARnet? > On Jan 10, 2013 10:21 AM, "John Vandenberg" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <[email protected]> >> Date: Jan 10, 2013 10:11 AM >> Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Dumps on AARNet >> To: "Research into Wikimedia content and communities" < >> [email protected]> >> Cc: >> >> If you're a researcher and you'd like the Wikimedia projects dumps to be >> on AARNet, looks like you need to speak up. >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/**index.php?title=Talk:** >> Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_**XML_dumps&curid=316421&diff=** >> 5001005&oldid=5000757&rcid=**3821246<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_XML_dumps&curid=316421&diff=5001005&oldid=5000757&rcid=3821246> >> > >> >> Nemo >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l@lists.**wikimedia.org<[email protected]> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wiki-**research-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaau-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l >> >> _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > >
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