[Wiki-research-l] The December 2020 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out

2021-01-20 Thread Mohammed Sadat Abdulai 
The December 2020 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2020/December

In this issue:

   1. Predicting the next move in Wikipedia discussions, based on six
   million threads
   2. Briefly

*** 12 recent publications were covered or listed in this issue ***

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[Wiki-research-l] Cross-wiki research examples

2021-01-20 Thread Isaac Johnson 
A question came up in today's Research Showcase (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#January_2021)
about good examples of cross-wiki research (and where to learn more about
people doing this work). To me, cross-wiki might encompass both research
that directly compares different language editions of Wikipedia or
different projects entirely such as Wikipedia vs. Wikidata. I wanted to
start a thread to collect examples. A few to jumpstart it, though most of
these are about comparing language editions as opposed to projects:

   - [Content] Urban/rural dynamics in content in English Wikipedia + US,
   Chinese Wikipedia + China, and OpenStreetMap in US and China:
   https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10954
   - [Content] Portrayals of LGBT People in English, Russian, and Spanish
   Wikipedia: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10820
   - [Content] WikiRank (https://www.wikirank.net/) and related
   publications: https://blog.wikirank.net/about/
   - [Content] Wikipedia Diversity Observatory (
   https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diversity_Observatory) and
   related publications:
   https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diversity_Observatory/Papers
   - [Content/Contributors] Patterns in localness of editors/sources across
   many languages of Wikipedia and countries:
   
http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/VGI_Barriers_Sen_CHI2015.pdf
   - [Contributors] Multilingual editor patterns:
   https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0976
   - [Content/Readers] Alignment of quality and pageviews in English,
   Russian, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias:
   
https://brenthecht.com/publications/wikipedia_supplydemandquality_icwsm2015.pdf
   - [Readers] Wikipedia reader motivation across 14 languages:
   https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.00474.pdf
   - [Editors] Many editor surveys (
   https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Editor_surveys)
   - [Readers] Many reader surveys (
   https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Reader_surveys)
   - [Content] Sources on Wikipedia vs. Wikidata:
   https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/412922/1/opensym_wd_vs_wp_2_.pdf

Best,
Isaac

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] January 20, 2021: Macro-level organizational analysis of peer production communities

2021-01-20 Thread Martin Gerlach 
Just a reminder, that this will be starting in about 24 minutes.

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 6:01 PM Martin Gerlach 
wrote:

> Hi all,
> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, January 20,
> at 9:30 AM PST/17:30 UTC.  In this month’s showcase, Aaron Shaw will
> present ongoing research illustrating the values and challenges of
> macro-level organizational analysis of peer production and social computing
> systems. Specifically, he will give an overview on different studies
> showing convergent trends of formalization in large Wikipedias; divergent
> editor engagement in small Wikipedias; and commensal patterns of ecological
> interdependence across communities.
>
> Youtube stream: 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujd8S82YfmA
>
> 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
>
>
>
> *Speaker*:
> Aaron Shaw (Northwestern University)
> *Title*: The importance of thinking big. Convergence, divergence, and
> interdependence among wikis and peer production communities
> *Abstract*: Designing and governing collaborative, peer production
> communities can benefit from large-scale, macro-level thinking that focuses
> on communities as the units of analysis. For example, understanding how and
> why seemingly comparable communities may follow convergent, divergent,
> and/or interdependent patterns of behavior can inform more parsimonious
> theoretical and empirical insights as well as more effective strategic
> action. This talk gives a sneak peak at research-in-progress by members of
> the Community Data Science Collective  to
> illustrate these points. In particular, I focus on studies of (1)
> convergent trends of formalization in several large Wikipedias; (2)
> divergent editor engagement among three small Wikipedias; and (3) commensal
> patterns of ecological interdependence across communities. Together, the
> studies underscore the value and challenges of macro-level organizational
> analysis of peer production and social computing systems.
>
>
> --
> Martin Gerlach
> Research Scientist
> Wikimedia Foundation
>


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Re: [Wiki-research-l] effects of vandalism and abuse on editors and readers

2021-01-20 Thread WereSpielChequers 
Hi Aaron,

I would be very interested in that. In particular re flagged revisions as
used on the German language Wikipedia (DE) and I think some other wikis. DE
has been one of the shrinking communities, which could of course be
something unconnected if it is more related to the ratio of tablet to PC
users (Wikipedia being near uneditable on the mobile platform). If the
Portuguese and potentially other wikes are going to drop IP editing then
that also is likely to have an effect on vandalism that would be worthwhile
researching.

WSC

On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 at 19:43, Aaron Halfaker 
wrote:

> +1 WSC.   When I thought about replicating it, I expected to see a dramatic
> decline in the impact of vandalism with the advent of counter-vandalism
> tools and abuse filter.
>
> It would be interesting to see that on a cross-wiki basis as different
> wikis employ different strategies (or seemingly none at all) for
> counter-vandalism over time.
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 10:58 AM WereSpielChequers <
> werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Aaron,
> >
> > That was an interesting read and a bit of a time capsule. 2002-2006 is a
> > bit before I started editing Wikipedia. Before many of the tools such as
> > huggle that give vandalfighters such an advantage over vandals, I think
> > before the era of bot reversion of vandalism when vandalism had to be
> > reverted by humans rather than computers, and certainly before the edit
> > filters that prevent much, possibly most vandalism from even being saved.
> > It also seems to predate the whole panoply of page protection that stops
> > vandals even editing many common vandalism targets (they do say that
> every
> > single article is available for anyone to edit).
> >
> > It would be interesting to see a study now when recent changes patrollers
> > boast of the times they have got to some vandalism faster than Cluebot.
> >
> > I know there were predictions in the early years that eventually the
> tidal
> > wave of vandalism would overwhelm the defenders of the wiki, that study
> > seems to have been part of that. I wonder if anyone in 2004 predicted
> that
> > we would get to the current situation where adolescent vandalism has
> turned
> > out to be so predictable that dealing with it has been mostly automated
> and
> > now we are more worried about spam than vandalism.
> >
> > WSC
> >
> > On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 at 23:52, Aaron Halfaker 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > See page 7 of Priedhorsky, R., Chen, J., Lam, S. T. K., Panciera, K.,
> > > Terveen, L., & Riedl, J. (2007, November). Creating, destroying, and
> > > restoring value in Wikipedia. In *Proceedings of the 2007 international
> > ACM
> > > conference on Supporting group work* (pp. 259-268).
> > > http://reidster.net/pubs/group282-priedhorsky.pdf
> > >
> > > They discuss the probability of a page view of Wikipedia containing
> > > vandalism rising over time.  I wanted to replicate this analysis and
> > extend
> > > it past 2007 but I never got the chance.  I think the methodology is
> > really
> > > interesting though.
> > >
> > > It doesn't directly answer the question but it does get at the *impact*
> > of
> > > vandalism.
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 12:13 PM Isaac Johnson 
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > To WSC's point about the difficulty of detecting such behavior or
> > > surveying
> > > > at a point in which it would still be salient, I'd add that in
> general
> > we
> > > > have a large gap in our knowledge about why people choose to stop
> > editing
> > > > because almost all of our survey mechanisms depend on existing
> > logged-in
> > > > usage of the wikis. This is a challenge with many other websites too
> > but
> > > > it's generally easier to find and survey who, for instance, has left
> > > > Facebook (example
> > > > <
> > > >
> > >
> >
> http://socialmedia.soc.northwestern.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/CHI2013-FBLL.pdf
> > > > >)
> > > > by collecting a random sample of people than it is to find and survey
> > > > someone who was a former editor of Wikipedia. There were surveys that
> > did
> > > > ask about major barriers to editing (which presumably contribute to
> > > > burnout) such as the 2012 survey:
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Editor_Survey_2012_-_Wikipedia_editing_experience.pdf#page=17
> > > > (see the editor survey category
> > > >  if you're
> > > > looking
> > > > for others)
> > > >
> > > > Some things that come to mind though:
> > > >
> > > >- I suspect very few readers see vandalism in their daily browsing
> > > (as a
> > > >very frequent, long-term reader of English Wikipedia, I have
> trouble
> > > >recalling encountering any clear vandalism in the course of normal
> > > >reading). That said, I do suspect that most people have seen
> plenty
> > of
> > > >stories of outlandish vandalism to Wikipedia -- some legitimate
> but
> > > many
> > > >more about