Re: [Wiki-research-l] Data on arbitration, mediation, voting
Thanks, Lodewijk I'm interested in the English Wikipedia. I'm studying he extent to which various governance mechanisms shape an article's evolutionary trajectory (not going into the details of how that trajectory is recorded and represented). The unit of analysis is a particular article. My focus is on the application of mechanisms that intended to alleviate conflicts. So for the particular article mentioned - Gdansk - I would look at when conflicts within this article have required mediation, arbitration or polls. I'm hoping this clarifies things. Ofer On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 7:22 PM L.Gelauff wrote: > Hi Ofer, > > Could you explain a bit more of the background what kind of questions > you're trying to answer? I have been looking into voting on Wikipedia > myself, and getting clean data is a challenge indeed. > > Are you only interested in English or also in other communities? Do you > refer with 'article' to the lemma around which a dispute was settled (in > arbitration, it's often not a particular lemma) or rather the section of > the rules that the ruling would refer to (quite common in Dutch, not sure > if it is in other languages). > > As for polls, outside the 2010 dataset on admin elections in English > Wikipedia, I have been unable to find any readily available data myself. > Most likely, you'd have to collect it from various pages and interpret the > data. It depends on the type of polls you're interested in, how straight > forward that is. (If I overlooked something, I would be happy to be > corrected!) > > Best, > > Lodewijk Gelauff > > On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 11:45 PM Ofer Arazy wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > As part of my research on governance mechanisms in Wikipedia, I'm looking > > for data regarding mediation, arbitration, and polls. > > Are records of mediation and arbitration committees (dates, the article, > > decisions) and on voting readily available? > > How could I gain access to this data? > > I'm particularly interested on data regarding the Gdansk article ( > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gda%C5%84sk), but would be happy to > retrieve > > data for other articles as well. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Ofer Arazy > > ___ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > ___ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
[Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] Wednesday, December 12 at 11:30 AM PST, 19:30 UTC
Hello everyone, The next Research Showcase, *Why the World Reads Wikipedia*, will be live-streamed this Wednesday, December 12, 2018, at 11:30 AM PST/19:30 UTC. This presentation is about Wikipedia usage across languages. YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKMFvi_CCB0 As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You can also watch our past research showcases here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase This month's presentation: *Why the World Reads Wikipedia* By Florian Lemmerich, RWTH Aachen University; Diego Sáez-Trumper, Wikimedia Foundation; Robert West, EPFL; and Leila Zia, Wikimedia Foundation So far, little is known about why users across the world read Wikipedia's various language editions. To bridge this gap, we conducted a comparative study by combining a large-scale survey of Wikipedia readers across 14 language editions with a log-based analysis of user activity. For analysis, we proceeded in three steps: First, we analyzed the survey results to compare the prevalence of Wikipedia use cases across languages, discovering commonalities, but also substantial differences, among Wikipedia languages with respect to their usage. Second, we matched survey responses to the respondents' traces in Wikipedia's server logs to characterize behavioral patterns associated with specific use cases, finding that distinctive patterns consistently mark certain use cases across language editions. Third, we could show that certain Wikipedia use cases are more common in countries with certain socio-economic characteristics; e.g., in-depth reading of Wikipedia articles is substantially more common in countries with a low Human Development Index. The outcomes of this study provide a deeper understanding of Wikipedia readership in a wide range of languages, which is important for Wikipedia editors, developers, and the reusers of Wikipedia content. -- Janna Layton Administrative Assistant - Audiences & Technology Wikimedia Foundation 1 Montgomery St. Suite 1600 San Francisco, CA 94104 ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
Re: [Wiki-research-l] Data on arbitration, mediation, voting
Hi Ofer, Could you explain a bit more of the background what kind of questions you're trying to answer? I have been looking into voting on Wikipedia myself, and getting clean data is a challenge indeed. Are you only interested in English or also in other communities? Do you refer with 'article' to the lemma around which a dispute was settled (in arbitration, it's often not a particular lemma) or rather the section of the rules that the ruling would refer to (quite common in Dutch, not sure if it is in other languages). As for polls, outside the 2010 dataset on admin elections in English Wikipedia, I have been unable to find any readily available data myself. Most likely, you'd have to collect it from various pages and interpret the data. It depends on the type of polls you're interested in, how straight forward that is. (If I overlooked something, I would be happy to be corrected!) Best, Lodewijk Gelauff On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 11:45 PM Ofer Arazy wrote: > Hi everyone, > > As part of my research on governance mechanisms in Wikipedia, I'm looking > for data regarding mediation, arbitration, and polls. > Are records of mediation and arbitration committees (dates, the article, > decisions) and on voting readily available? > How could I gain access to this data? > I'm particularly interested on data regarding the Gdansk article ( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gda%C5%84sk), but would be happy to retrieve > data for other articles as well. > > Thanks in advance, > Ofer Arazy > ___ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
