Yay! Very cool to see this :) Heather Ford Oxford Internet Institute <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk> Doctoral Programme EthnographyMatters <http://ethnographymatters.net> | Oxford Digital Ethnography Group <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/?id=115> http://hblog.org | @hfordsa <http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa>
On 26 February 2014 23:43, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for these showcases, they are great. I'm a fan of using > session data as a baseline metric; kudos to Oliver for this work. > > Is there a catalog of all data that could possibly be available (for > instance, the mw.session cookie), along with where it is logged, for > how long, and where in various toolchains it gets stripped out? > > Related lists could be useful for planning: > * Limitations our privacy policies place on data gathering (handy when > reviewing those policies) > * Studies that are easy and hard given the types of data we gather > * Wishlists (from external researchers, and from internal staff) of > data-sets that would be useful but aren't currently available. Along > with a sense of priority, complexity, cost. > > > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Dario Taraborelli > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Starting tomorrow (February 26), we will be broadcasting the monthly > > showcase of the Wikimedia Research and Data team. > > > > The showcase is an opportunity to present and discuss recent work > > researchers at the Foundation have been conducting. The showcase will > start > > at 11.30 Pacific Time and we will post a link to the stream a few minutes > > before it starts. You can also join the conversation on the > > #wikimedia-office IRC channel on freenode (we'll be sticking around after > > the end of the showcase to answer any question). > > > > This month, we'll be talking about Wikipedia mobile readers and article > > creation trends: > > > > Oliver Keyes > > Mobile session times > > A prerequisite to many pieces of interesting reader research is being > able > > to accurately identify the length of users' 'sessions'. I will explain > one > > potential way of doing it, how I've applied it to mobile readers, and > what > > research this opens up. (20 mins) > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Mobile_sessions > > > > Aaron Halfaker > > Wikipedia article creation research > > I'll present research examining trends in newcomer article creation > across > > 10 languages with a focus on English and German Wikipedias. I'll show > > that, in wikis where anonymous users can create articles, their articles > are > > less likely to be deleted than articles created by newly registered > editors. > > I'll also show the results of an in-depth analysis of Articles for > Creation > > (AfC) which suggest that while AfC's process seems to result in the > > publication of high quality articles, it also dramatically reduces the > rate > > at which good new articles are published. (30 mins) > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation > > > > Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow! > > > > Dario > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > > > -- > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >
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