This is happening in 15 minutes. Here is the link for watching it: http://youtu.be/yaj9dfHjkOA
We will be in IRC channel #wikimedia-research for taking your questions. :-) On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Dario Taraborelli < dtarabore...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > I am thrilled to announce our speaker lineup for this month’s research > showcase > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Research_and_Data/Showcase#February_2015>. > > > Our own *Haitham Shammaa* will present results from the Global South > survey. We also invited Stamen’s *Alan McConchie*, an OpenStreetMap > expert, to talk about the challenges the OSM community is facing with > external data imports. > > The showcase will be recorded and publicly streamed at 11.30 PT on *Wednesday, > February 18 *(livestream link will follow). We’ll hold a discussion and > take questions from remote participants via the Wikimedia Research IRC > channel (#wikimedia-research > <http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-research> on freenode). > > Looking forward to seeing you there. > > Dario > > > *Global South User Survey 2014*By *Haitham Shammaa > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:HaithamS_(WMF)>*Users' trends in > the Global South have significantly changed over the past two years, and > given the increase in interest in Global South communities and their > activities, we wanted this survey to focus on understanding the statistics > and needs of our users (both readers, and editors) in the regions listed in > the WMF's New Global South Strategy > <https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:WMF%27s_New_Global_South_Strategy.pdf>. > This survey aims to provide a better understanding of the specific needs of > local user communities in the Global South, as well as provide data that > supports product and program development decision making process. > *Ingesting Open Geodata: Observations from OpenStreetMap*By *Alan > McConchie* <http://stamen.com/studio/alan>As Wikidata grapples with the > challenges of ingesting external data sources such as Freebase, what > lessons can we learn from other open knowledge projects that have had > similar experiences? OpenStreetMap, often called "The Wikipedia of Maps", > is a crowdsourced geospatial data project covering the entire world. Since > the earliest years of the project, OSM has combined user contributions with > existing data imported from external sources. Within the OSM community, > these imports have been controversial; some core OSM contributors complain > that imported data is lower quality than user-contributed data, or that it > discourages the growth of local mapping communities. In this talk, I'll > review the history of data imports in OSM, and describe how OSM's > best-practices have evolved over time in response to these critiques. > > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > >
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