Re: [Wiki-research-l] The best papers on anonymous editing

2013-09-24 Thread Steven Walling
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Dario Taraborelli dtarabore...@wikimedia.org wrote: +1 but instead of having links and pointers sent off-list, let's create a public page on Meta where these papers can be listed

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [EE] Recruiting gamers to edit Wikimedia

2013-07-15 Thread Steven Walling
to, is creation of a noindexed Draft namespace. This would probably help accomplish the goal you were suggesting, where articles that aren't harmful per se but which need work can simple be demoted to a draft status. -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Recruiting gamers to edit Wikimedia

2013-07-05 Thread Steven Walling
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BADGE and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Badges There are probably others I'm forgetting. -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Reasons for editors leaving Wikipedia or becoming less active

2013-04-17 Thread Steven Walling
://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editor retention and meetups?

2012-11-19 Thread Steven Walling
of what you might use as a control group as a basis for comparison. -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki Research Journal?

2012-11-04 Thread Steven Walling
, as well as the git-like way is allows for collaboration. -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

Re: [Wiki-research-l] War of 1812 and all that

2012-10-28 Thread Steven Walling
joined up and did a lot of work on important articles. You seem to be disregarding the entirety of the developing world and non-English speakers in that statement. -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Data for Portuguese Wikipedia

2012-08-11 Thread Steven Walling
to inform community decision-making. -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ 1. https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Tipos_de_usu%C3%A1rios#Reversores ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: Re: Experimental study of informal rewards in peer production

2012-05-04 Thread Steven Walling
/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-30/Recent_research -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

Re: [Wiki-research-l] long in tooth: what outdated looks like

2012-05-03 Thread Steven Walling
for openness in scholarly work. Otherwise, you're complaining about a problem that Wikipedians do not have the power to fix, because academics tacitly support a system in which knowledge is kept in the hands of the few who can pay for it. -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ 1. https

Re: [Wiki-research-l] long in tooth: what outdated looks like

2012-05-03 Thread Steven Walling
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.orgwrote: They do not have access to them, because they are unaffiliated scholars. Dozens of editors want access to this content,[1] but can't have it because JSTOR locks it down. A friend pointed out to me offlist

Re: [Wiki-research-l] long in tooth: highly active editors are 1/3 fewer

2012-05-02 Thread Steven Walling
dead white guys and textbook concepts. -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

[Wiki-research-l] Summary of findings from WMF Summer of Research program now available

2011-09-06 Thread Steven Walling
but not least, if anyone would like to have a more in-depth discussion about these findings and the research that produced them, I'm definitely open to hosting an IRC office hours with some members of the team. Just let me know if you're interested (on or offlist) and I'll set something up soon. -- Steven

Re: [Wiki-research-l] My data summit working groups

2011-02-13 Thread Steven Walling
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 3:32 PM, David Strauss da...@davidstrauss.netwrote: Edit history in an accessible form -- create a queryable NoSQL form of data dumps I'd like to get this started ASAP. I think we can set up a bridge to synchronize directly from MediaWiki to a tool like Cassandra. It

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Pew Research Report on Wikipedia

2011-01-13 Thread Steven Walling
Just a reminder that Pew is exclusive to the U.S. so that's 53% of *American *adult internet users using Wikipedia. Steven Walling On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Joseph Reagle joseph.2...@reagle.orgwrote: On Thursday, January 13, 2011, phoebe ayers wrote: Wikipedia, past and present http

Re: [Wiki-research-l] ProveIt - Wikipedia references made easy

2010-12-02 Thread Steven Walling
talking about. Kudos on a useful project, Steven Walling On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Kurt Luther lut...@cc.gatech.edu wrote: Hi all, We at Georgia Tech are happy to announce the release of ProveIt, our free, open source tool for finding, editing, adding, and citing references

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Anti-vandalism bot census

2010-11-29 Thread Steven Walling
-- Forwarded message -- From: emijrp emi...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:35 AM Subject: [Foundation-l] Anti-vandalism bot census To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org, Research into Wikimedia content and communities

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia Article Editing History

2010-10-03 Thread Steven Walling
. Steven Walling On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com wrote: Hi, I'm looking to find out if a tool exists that does the following: 1. Gets the history of selected articles. 2. Determines the geographic location of IP address edits. 3. Determines the geographic

Re: [Wiki-research-l] New research project

2010-08-13 Thread Steven Walling
can take. Steven Walling On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:18 AM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi; It is an interesting topic, but also, I think that a difficult one. It is said that editcount is not the real value of an user. It is correct, but, how do you compare the value of different actions