[Wiki-research-l] The Wikimedia Research Newsletter 2(4) is out

[Dario Taraborelli]

The largest Wikimedia Research Newsletter ever published is out:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2012-04-30

In this issue:

1 Recognition may sustain user participation
2 Can Wiktionary rival traditional lexicons?
3 Wikipedia as an academic publisher?
4 Wikipedia citations in American law reviews
5 One in four of articles tagged as flawed, most often for verifiability issues
6 Time evolution of Wikipedia discussions
7 APWeb2012 papers on admin networks, mitigating language bias and finding 
"minority information"
8 Briefly
9 References

••• 29 publications were covered in this issue •••
Thanks to User:Lambiam, Piotr Konieczny, Jodi Schneider, Amir E. Aharoni, 
Steven Walling, Giovanni Ciampaglia and Adam Hyland for their contribution

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] WikiPapers has now over 1, 000 publications - why WikiLit?

[Chitu Okoli]

Hi Piotr,

http://WikiLit.referata.com is the project website for a comprehensive 
literature review of scholarly research on Wikipedia. Unlike permanent 
long-term sites like AcaWiki (which compiles summaries of scholarly studies of 
all subjects) and WikiPapers (which compiles bibliographic and other details of 
scholarly research on wikis), our site is a temporary project site for a 
literature review of a very narrow subset of studies: those that focus on 
Wikipedia. Our goal is to host our extracted literature review data there while 
we are in the final stages of the review, complete and clean it up, and then 
when completed, eventually export it all to long-term sites like AcaWiki and 
WikiPapers.

We have no intention whatsoever to provide an alternative to these sites--we 
truly appreciate the amazing amount of work that has gone into them and that is 
required to keep them going, and we have no intention to do that kind of work 
ourselves :-). On the contrary, once our data collection is completed and the 
data is cleaned, we hope to support these sites by feeding high-quality data to 
them. (Admitted, though, there might be license incompatibilities with AcaWiki, 
since our data is licensed CC-BY-SA whereas theirs is CC-BY.) At that point, 
our site will probably be closed for edits, and we will only point people to 
those other sites if they want to add anything new, and we also intend to 
provide exports of the dataset in various formats, for which we've already 
received quite a few requests.

Our project team is constantly working heavily on the site--we've made over 
4,000 internal edits involving adding and cleaning up data since we first 
launched the site on March 1, not counting edits by external 
contributors--which we greatly appreciate, since people who edit their own 
articles are probably the most accurate! You see, this is actually an internal 
project site that we're exposing externally to 1) get feedback and help; and 2) 
share data in beta stage of development. We hope to complete the project in the 
next couple months.

I hope that clears up the difference. We certainly hope that the existence of 
our site is not distracting or discouraging anyone from contributing to 
WikiPapers, which we wholeheartedly support!

Regards,
Chitu


Luiz Augusto a écrit :

Good question.

A more detailed explanation would be welcome, but it seems that WikiLit is 
focused on research done exclusively at Wikipedias, and WikiPapers is focused 
on all wikis researchs.

Maybe a fusion on project goals and data already available in one single big project make 
it more interesting to contribute or even to get moved to Wikimedia Foundation servers 
(as part of the revamp on Proposals for new projects being drafted on the "Sisters 
projects committes" too on draft stage 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sister_Projects_Committee ) ...

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Piotr Konieczny mailto:p...@pitt.edu>> wrote:

Can somebody tell me why we have both the 
http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page and 
http://wikilit.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page ?

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] long in tooth.

[Laura Hale]

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Richard Jensen  wrote:

> I am looking at the edit history of a number of major articles on
> historical topics (in the English Wikipedia)
>
>
Sports has this as a bit of a huge problem.  I've found a number of
articles where they have not been updated since 2008 for Olympians and the
upcoming Olympic Games where some of these athletes will compete in again
have not been updated to reflect that yet.

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[Wiki-research-l] long in tooth.

[Richard Jensen]

I am looking at the edit history of a number of major articles on 
historical topics (in the English Wikipedia)


I find that most of the important writing was done in 2006-8. 
Typically, the article reached maturity about 2008 and since then the 
rate of editing has plunged. In most cases I see only minor or 
maintenance editing since then.  The new material since 2008 is 
mostly cosmetic:  illustrations still get added, lots of links are 
made, new categories added, new lists are appended, vandalism is 
removed.  The citations are increasingly out of date.  The articles 
are long in tooth.


Wiki is now resembling the old paper encyclopedias--they would get 
old fast and need constant updating either through yearbooks or new editions.


Richard Jensen


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Re: [Wiki-research-l] WikiPapers has now over 1,000 publications

[Han-Teng Liao]

Hello all,
   I have also found that the publication rate of Wiki-related thesis,
written in Chinese language, also seem to be peaked around the same time.
   See the last two graphs here:
http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/hanteng/2012/02/28/growth-of-academic-interest-in-wikipedia-from-major-chinese-speaking-regions-has-it-peaked/
Best,
han-teng


On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 6:42 PM, emijrp  wrote:

> Hi all;
>
> WikiPapers has reached recently the 1,000 publications milestone.[1] Looks
> like the publication rate peaked in 2009 and has plateaued in the last 3
> years.
>
> I continue adding more data... but with little help. Don't you like
> editing wikis? ; )
>
> Regards,
> emijrp
>
> [1] http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/List_of_publications
>
> --
> Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com
> Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain)
> Projects: AVBOT  | 
> StatMediaWiki
> | WikiEvidens  | 
> WikiPapers
> | WikiTeam 
> Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/
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Re: [Wiki-research-l] WikiPapers has now over 1,000 publications

[Samuel Klein]

This sounds like a great idea to discuss.  Less fragmentation, more
creation!  SJ

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Luiz Augusto  wrote:
> Good question.
>
> A more detailed explanation would be welcome, but it seems that WikiLit is
> focused on research done exclusively at Wikipedias, and WikiPapers is
> focused on all wikis researchs.
>
> Maybe a fusion on project goals and data already available in one single big
> project make it more interesting to contribute or even to get moved to
> Wikimedia Foundation servers (as part of the revamp on Proposals for new
> projects being drafted on the "Sisters projects committes" too on draft
> stage http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sister_Projects_Committee ) ...
>
>
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Piotr Konieczny  wrote:
>>
>> Can somebody tell me why we have both the
>> http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page and
>> http://wikilit.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page ?
>>
>> --
>> Piotr Konieczny
>> PhD Candidate
>> Dept of Sociology
>> Uni of Pittsburgh
>>
>> http://pittsburgh.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny/
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus
>>
>>
>> On 4/30/2012 6:42 AM, emijrp wrote:
>>
>> Hi all;
>>
>> WikiPapers has reached recently the 1,000 publications milestone.[1] Looks
>> like the publication rate peaked in 2009 and has plateaued in the last 3
>> years.
>>
>> I continue adding more data... but with little help. Don't you like
>> editing wikis? ; )
>>
>> Regards,
>> emijrp
>>
>> [1] http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/List_of_publications
>>
>> --
>> Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com
>> Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain)
>> Projects: AVBOT | StatMediaWiki | WikiEvidens | WikiPapers | WikiTeam
>> Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/
>>
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Re: [Wiki-research-l] WikiPapers has now over 1,000 publications

[Luiz Augusto]

Good question.

A more detailed explanation would be welcome, but it seems that WikiLit is
focused on research done exclusively at Wikipedias, and WikiPapers is
focused on all wikis researchs.

Maybe a fusion on project goals and data already available in one single
big project make it more interesting to contribute or even to get moved to
Wikimedia Foundation servers (as part of the revamp on Proposals for new
projects being drafted on the "Sisters projects committes" too on draft
stage http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sister_Projects_Committee ) ...

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Piotr Konieczny  wrote:

>  Can somebody tell me why we have both the
> http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page and
> http://wikilit.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page ?
>
> --
> Piotr Konieczny
> PhD Candidate
> Dept of Sociology
> Uni of Pittsburgh
> http://pittsburgh.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus
>
>
> On 4/30/2012 6:42 AM, emijrp wrote:
>
> Hi all;
>
> WikiPapers has reached recently the 1,000 publications milestone.[1] Looks
> like the publication rate peaked in 2009 and has plateaued in the last 3
> years.
>
> I continue adding more data... but with little help. Don't you like
> editing wikis? ; )
>
> Regards,
> emijrp
>
> [1] http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/List_of_publications
>
> --
> Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com
> Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain)
> Projects: AVBOT  | 
> StatMediaWiki
> | WikiEvidens  | 
> WikiPapers
> | WikiTeam 
> Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/
>
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Re: [Wiki-research-l] WikiPapers has now over 1,000 publications

[Piotr Konieczny]

Can somebody tell me why we have both the 
http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page and 
http://wikilit.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page ?


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PhD Candidate
Dept of Sociology
Uni of Pittsburgh

http://pittsburgh.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus


On 4/30/2012 6:42 AM, emijrp wrote:

Hi all;

WikiPapers has reached recently the 1,000 publications milestone.[1] 
Looks like the publication rate peaked in 2009 and has plateaued in 
the last 3 years.


I continue adding more data... but with little help. Don't you like 
editing wikis? ; )


Regards,
emijrp

[1] http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/List_of_publications

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Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain)
Projects: AVBOT  | StatMediaWiki 
 | WikiEvidens 
 | WikiPapers 
 | WikiTeam 


Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/



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