Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] [wikicite-discuss] Leaving the Wikimedia Foundation, staying on the wikis

[Daniel Mietchen]

Hi Dario and Leila,
it's been a pleasure collaborating with you in the past, and I hope
this will continue despite the changes in your roles.
Best,
Daniel

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:13 PM Yaroslav Blanter  wrote:
>
> Dario, thanks for your effort. It was a pleasure working with you, and I am
> also happy that you will stay around as a volunteer. My congratulations to
> Leila. Whereas at this point I am rather skeptical and sometimes vocal
> about WMF in general, I have a tremendous respect for both of you.
>
> Cheers
> Yaroslav
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:05 PM Samuel Klein  wrote:
>
> > Dario -- what news!  And how close that seems to your recent pushing of us
> > all.
> > How lucky the projects have been to have you building a research
> > constellation, for these many years.
> >
> > Leila, congrats + warm wishes in your new role.
> >
> > With wikilove and taxonometrics,
> > SJ
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 4:56 PM Dario Taraborelli <
> > dtarabore...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Hey all,
> > >
> > > I've got some personal news to share.
> > >
> > > After 8 years with Wikimedia, I have decided to leave the Foundation to
> > > take up a new role focused on open science. This has been a difficult
> > > decision but an opportunity arose and I am excited to be moving on to an
> > > area that’s been so close to my heart for years.
> > >
> > > Serving the movement as part of the Research team at WMF has been, and
> > > will definitely be, the most important gig in my life. I leave a team of
> > > ridiculously talented and fun people that I can’t possibly imagine not
> > > spending all of my days with, as well many collaborators and friends in
> > the
> > > community who have I worked alongside. I am proud and thankful to have
> > been
> > > part of this journey with you all. With my departure, Leila Zia is taking
> > > the lead of Research at WMF, and you all couldn't be in better hands.
> > >
> > > In March, I’ll be joining CZI Science—a philanthropy based in the Bay
> > > Area—to help build their portfolio of open science programs and
> > technology.
> > > I'll continue to be an ally on the same fights in my new role.
> > >
> > > Other than that, I look forward to returning to full volunteer mode. I
> > > started editing English Wikipedia in 2004, working on bloody chapters in
> > > the history of London ;
> > hypothetical
> > > astronomy ; unsung heroes
> > > among women in science ; and
> > > of course natural
> > > , technical
> > >  and
> > political
> > > disasters
> > > <
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections
> > >.
> > > I’ve also developed an embarrassing addiction to Wikidata, and you’ll
> > > continue seeing me around hacking those instances of Q16521
> > >  for a little while.
> > >
> > > I hope our paths cross once again in the future.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > > Dario
> > >
> > >
> > > --
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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Digital engagement / digital volunteer work

[Daniel Mietchen]

Hi Julian,

one open question I would like to see addressed is how the digital and
on-the-ground responses to emergency situations (think earthquakes,
floods, disease outbreaks, war etc.) can be coordinated more
efficiently. Those responses are by no means limited to volunteers,
but frequently have a strong volunteer component.

A good example for that is OpenStreetMap, who have established
mechanisms to (re)map the affected areas within days and sometimes
hours (see https://www.hotosm.org/ ), and many of the responders on
the ground are using that.

There are a few more examples like that, but my impression is that, by
and large, the traditional responders are operating as closed siloes,
though awareness is growing that this may need to change.

My notes on the topic are at
https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/datascience/blob/master/emergency-response.md
.

Cheers,

Daniel

On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Julian Fischer
<julian.fisc...@wikimedia.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Wikimedia Deutschland is planning a workshop (June 23, 2017) on digital
> engagement / digital volunteer work.
>
> The aim of the workshop is to identify with other stakeholders ("classic"
> NGOs, Free- and Open-Movement, Volunteers, state authorities) open
> questions on digital engagement / digital volunteer work that should be
> answered.
>
> Research questions could be as follows:
> - What is the difference between digital and analog engagement?
> - What are the core characteristic of digital engagement?
> - What should state authorities on the national and local level do in order
> to support digital volunteers?
> - How important is digital engagement for our society?
> - ...
>
> Is there anybody from the Wikimedia movement who can help us to broaden our
> German perspective and give us international insides on this topic (e.g.
> via a ten minutes video message)?
>
> Do you know any inspiring study?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Julian Fischer
> Head of Volunteer Support
>
> Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | D-10963 Berlin
> Tel. +49-(0)30 219 158 26-0
> http://wikimedia.de
>
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> Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia video stats ?

[Daniel Mietchen]

once I had the link open, I actually had a look at it in "Show
details" mode and was surprised to find not a single .ogg or .ogv file
listed amongst the top 1k files. Seems like they're counted as image
files by the MIME type filter: when I selected the "image" box, a good
number of them popped up in the list.

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 3:07 AM, Daniel Mietchen
<daniel.mietc...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> If you use
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Videos
> with GLAMorous (after unselecting the image and audio MIME types), it
> gives some basic usage data across wikis, though no view stats:
> https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/glamorous.php?doit=1=Videos_globalusage=1=1=15[wikipedia]=1[wikimedia]=1[wikisource]=1[wikibooks]=1[wikiquote]=1[wiktionary]=1[wikinews]=1[wikivoyage]=1[wikispecies]=1[mediawiki]=1[wikidata]=1[wikiversity]=1
>
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 9:11 PM, Trilce Navarrete
> <trilce.navarr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear Tilman, thanks much for this ! very helpful. Though it is not a number
>> I can use right away, it is a very nice invitation to further explore the
>> potential. Will be sending the paper back to the list when ready :)
>>
>> again, thanks much !
>> best
>> T
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 8:52 PM, Tilman Bayer <tba...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Trilce,
>>>
>>> some data exists about video views, although it's AFAIK not available
>>> in form of a nice online tool. See
>>> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data/Mediacounts
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 5:34 AM, Trilce Navarrete
>>> <trilce.navarr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Dear all,
>>> >
>>> > I'm doing some research on the use of image and video in Wikipedia and
>>> > would
>>> > like to know if there is any way to track # of video views in Wikipedia
>>> > articles ?
>>> >
>>> > Image view per page I use the GLAM tools, but for video, I'm not sure if
>>> > there is a tool or general Wikipedia stat on # of videos currently used
>>> > in
>>> > all languages, # of Wikipedia articles containing video and # of views
>>> > to
>>> > this pages.
>>> >
>>> > I understand use of video online is exploiting, and wondered if the wiki
>>> > had
>>> > stats on this as well.
>>> >
>>> > your feedback will be most appreciated !
>>> > thanks much in advance
>>> > Trilce
>>> >
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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia video stats ?

[Daniel Mietchen]

If you use
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Videos
with GLAMorous (after unselecting the image and audio MIME types), it
gives some basic usage data across wikis, though no view stats:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/glamorous.php?doit=1=Videos_globalusage=1=1=15[wikipedia]=1[wikimedia]=1[wikisource]=1[wikibooks]=1[wikiquote]=1[wiktionary]=1[wikinews]=1[wikivoyage]=1[wikispecies]=1[mediawiki]=1[wikidata]=1[wikiversity]=1

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 9:11 PM, Trilce Navarrete
 wrote:
> Dear Tilman, thanks much for this ! very helpful. Though it is not a number
> I can use right away, it is a very nice invitation to further explore the
> potential. Will be sending the paper back to the list when ready :)
>
> again, thanks much !
> best
> T
>
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 8:52 PM, Tilman Bayer  wrote:
>>
>> Hi Trilce,
>>
>> some data exists about video views, although it's AFAIK not available
>> in form of a nice online tool. See
>> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data/Mediacounts
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 5:34 AM, Trilce Navarrete
>>  wrote:
>> > Dear all,
>> >
>> > I'm doing some research on the use of image and video in Wikipedia and
>> > would
>> > like to know if there is any way to track # of video views in Wikipedia
>> > articles ?
>> >
>> > Image view per page I use the GLAM tools, but for video, I'm not sure if
>> > there is a tool or general Wikipedia stat on # of videos currently used
>> > in
>> > all languages, # of Wikipedia articles containing video and # of views
>> > to
>> > this pages.
>> >
>> > I understand use of video online is exploiting, and wondered if the wiki
>> > had
>> > stats on this as well.
>> >
>> > your feedback will be most appreciated !
>> > thanks much in advance
>> > Trilce
>> >
>> > --
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>> >
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Re: [Wiki-research-l] WMF Open Access Policy and Independent Researchers

[Daniel Mietchen]

Dear all,

this situation was actually discussed in detail when the policy was
drafted, and it is reflected in two parts of the policy:
- Under "C. Published Materials. Researchers will publish any output
in an Open Access outlet under a Free License.", it states
"If a work based on the project is accepted for publication in a peer
reviewed outlet that does not make its articles available online, free
of charge, and under free licenses, an electronic copy of the author’s
accepted manuscript will be submitted to a public and permanently
archived repository by the official date of publication, without any
embargo period, and released under a Free License." ==> This basically
means you can publish in closed-access journals, as long as you make a
pre- or postprint openly available.
- Under "2. Limited waiver", it states
"Specific waivers from the expectations above may be applied in
limited circumstances on a case-by-case basis. Researchers wanting a
waiver are required to submit to the Wikimedia Foundation, in writing,
a detailed explanation of why they require the waiver. The Wikimedia
Foundation will publicly post a summary of the request and its
response. "

This is also covered in the FAQ, part D, along with limited funding options (cf.
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy/FAQ ).

Cheers,
d.

On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Jonathan Morgan  wrote:
> Thanks, Sydney and Pine.
>
> This is timely, as Resources is currently re-vamping their instructions for
> grant proposals (including research-focused grants). So it's a good time to
> hammer out our policy and process here.
>
> Max: if you're willing to ping me off-list and relate some of the details of
> your conversation, that will help me follow up on the particular issue
> you're facing right now.
>
> I want this to be clear and easy for grantees going forward—if WMF is
> funding research, we should be prepared to support the dissemination of that
> research in a way that aligns with our values. In the future, I would like
> to see grantees budget anticipated OA fees into their requests, and a
> process for vetting this during the proposal review period.
>
> I know there has been some conversation between Research and Resources
> around this issue in the past, but I don't know if there were decisions
> made... more likely I'll need to start it back up again. We're all still
> working out the kinks in the OA policy (even staff researchers are trying to
> understand the ramifications for our work).
>
> I'll make sure to notify this list when I learn more.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Sydney Poore 
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Max,
>>
>> This issue was discussed in the context of a paper about Wikipedia working
>> with medical students in the classroom.
>>
>> See the talk page and endorsements for the discussion that led to the
>> grant being approved. .
>>
>>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/bluerasberry/open_access_release_funding_for_paper_on_Wikipedia_in_classroom
>>
>> Sydney
>>
>> Sydney Poore
>> User:FloNight
>> Wiki Project Med Foundation
>> WikiWomen's User Group
>> Facebook https://www.facebook.com/sydney.e.poore
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Maximilian Klein 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> As you might know WMF has an Open Access Policy that requires all work
>>> that they fund to be Open Access[1]. A strange consequence of this policy,
>>> that I recently ran into, is that it requires researchers funded by grants
>>> to publish OA -- but without providing any funding to do so. That is, I
>>> recently completed an Individual Engagement Grant (IEG), part of whose scope
>>> was explicitly to write a paper about the work[2], and when I wrote to WMF
>>> to acquire funds for OA publishing, they confirmed that the paper was under
>>> the OA mandate but indicated that funds were not available to pay for OA
>>> publishing.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else use WMF's Open Access Policy?  What was your experience?
>>>
>>> [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy
>>> [2]
>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/WIGI:_Wikipedia_Gender_Index#Activities
>>>
>>> Make a great day,
>>> Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/
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[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania '16 Scholarship & Submission Deadlines are Approaching!

[Daniel Mietchen]

If you plan to attend Wikimania this year, this should be useful information.
d.


-- Forwarded message --
From: Ellie Young 
Date: Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:05 AM
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania '16 Scholarship & Submission
Deadlines are Approaching!
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)"
, Wikimedia Mailing List



Hi all,

Two important reminders concerning Wikimania 2016, which will be held
in Esino Lario, Italy on June 22–27, 2016:

The Submission deadline has been extended by the program committee to
January 17th.  See:

https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions

The deadline for applications for the WMF Scholarship program is
approaching!Applications are open until  Saturday, January 09 2016
 23:59 UTC.

Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A
full scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip
travel, shared accommodation, and conference registration fees as
arranged by the Wikimedia Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover
conference registration fees and shared accommodation.

 To learn more about Wikimania 2016 scholarships, please visit:

https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships

To apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form on:

https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply

It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on
the Scholarships page and the associated FAQ (
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/FAQ ) before
submitting an application.

If you have any questions, please contact:

wikimania-scholarships at wikimedia.org

or leave a message at:

https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Scholarships


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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Research-related activities at Wikimania 2016

[Daniel Mietchen]

Hi Tilman,
it's basically your option 2:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimania_2016_bids/Esino_Lario/Program/Liaisons#Research_about_Wikimedia_projects.2C_or_research_as_covered_on_Wikimedia_projects.3F
.
d.

On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 11:31 PM, Tilman Bayer <tba...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> thanks for your work on this! Could it be clarified whether "research"
> in this context means
>
> 1. research about Wikipedia (and other Wikimedia projects) as
> published in the academic literature or by Wikimedia volunteers, WMF
> staff etc., or
>
> 2. research in general (about everything), as covered on Wikimedia
> projects -in particular, Wikipedia as an outreach medium for science,
> researchers as expert contributors, etc.?
>
> From the proposed guest speaker list and the "What we would like to
> learn/teach" sections, I assume that 2. is meant. There's an
> intersection area with 1. of course, but it's relatively small in my
> experience. Both are very important topics of course, so it might be
> worth creating a separate track for 1.
>
> (I also posted this on the talk page, so feel free to reply there instead.)
>
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Daniel Mietchen
> <daniel.mietc...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> we have started to collect ideas on how to cover research-related
>> topics at the next Wikimania:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_bids/Esino_Lario/Program/Liaisons#Research
>> .
>>
>> Your contributions there would be most welcome.
>>
>> Thanks and cheers,
>>
>> Daniel
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[Wiki-research-l] Research-related activities at Wikimania 2016

[Daniel Mietchen]

Dear all,

we have started to collect ideas on how to cover research-related
topics at the next Wikimania:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_bids/Esino_Lario/Program/Liaisons#Research
.

Your contributions there would be most welcome.

Thanks and cheers,

Daniel

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Does anyone have access to this research..?

[Daniel Mietchen]

Try
http://openaccess.uoc.edu/webapps/o2/bitstream/10609/24741/1/AIBAR_EDULEARN2013preprint_WIKI4HE.pdf
.

d.


On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Shani shani.e...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello fellow wiki-researchers,

 I've started working on a research for a seminar paper (which will probably
 evolve to an M.A. dissertation) on Wikipedia in Higher Education as part of
 my MA in Technology in Learning program at the School of Education,
 Tel-Aviv University. The research will focus on a elective course on
 Wikipedia for Med students, which I've developed and run at TAU.

 I was wondering if any of you have access to this research --

 Aibar, E., Lerga, M., Lladós, J., Meseguer, A.,  Minguillón, J. (2014).
 Wikipedia in Higher Education: an Empirical Study RUSC VOL. 11 No 2 Special
 Issue| Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and University of New England|
 Barcelona.

 Other than an abstract, I wasn't able to find it online (nor is it available
 through the university library) and I would really appreciate a copy (word,
 PDF, whatever you can get your hands on).

 Any help getting this article would be much appreciated, as well as any
 directions to other relevant existing researches on the topic.

 Cheers,
 Shani.






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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikidata for Research - a research proposal

[Daniel Mietchen]

Hi Claudia,

thanks for your comments. While we aim at making Wikidata useful for
any field of research, even a successfully completed project is
unlikely to achieve that in one go, so I've changed that phrase to
across fields of research.

We have tried to reach out to different disciplines (e.g.
https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Daniel_Mietchenoffset=20141209075732limit=31target=Daniel+Mietchen
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Daniel_Mietchenoffset=20141209023643limit=34target=Daniel+Mietchen
as well as via the blog and social media)
but most of the reactions came - unsurprisingly - from the computer
science and Semantic Web corners. I think that is OK, since our aim is
to get the process rolling for a tighter integration of Wikidata with
research - that's why we also set up the WikiProject and hope that the
proposal will just be the first of many of its activities. Once the
first such project has been run (be it ours or a fork thereof or a
different one), integration of further fields of research should be
simpler than it is today.

I was reaching out to Europeana, which resulted in the European
Library signing up to become a partner here, which should help cover
arts and humanities. I have also reached out to mathematicians but did
not receive enthusiasm. I specifically asked for databases about
mathematical concepts or other kind of Wikidata-compatible datasets,
but did not find any. Pointers most welcome, as are further comments
and edits.

Thanks and cheers,

Daniel




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On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 9:30 AM,  koltzenb...@w4w.net wrote:
 Hi Daniel, thank you for your pointer,

 the claim made in the summary
 in any field of research
 needs to be substantiated by data that

 * show the usefulness of the project's expected outcome for research fields
 in which proofs do not predominantly rely on measurement but predominantly
 on solidity of argumentation
 * outline how the bias towards facticity (Mautpreller 2011) in Wikidata
 disadvantages non-propositional kinds of knowledge even though the purported
 claim of Wikipedia is to represent the sum of all knowledge

 see also the list of project partners,
 e.g., representatives of the fields of Maths as well as of Arts  Humanities
 seem to be missing

 best,
 Claudia Koltzenburg
 koltzenb...@w4w.net
 My GPG-Key-ID: DDD21523


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 Subject:[Wiki-research-l] Wikidata for Research - a research proposal

 Dear all,

 we are drafting a research proposal on establishing Wikidata as a
 virtual research environment, as explained in

 http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/12/05/wikidata-for-research-a-grant-proposal-that-anyone-can-edit/
 .

 The proposal is being drafted via
 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research
 and would benefit from critical review, so we would appreciate your
 comments, suggestions and edits.

 Thanks and cheers,

 Daniel

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] unsurprising Re: Wikidata for Research - a research proposal

[Daniel Mietchen]

Hi Claudia,
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:54 AM,  koltzenb...@w4w.net wrote:
 but most of the reactions came - unsurprisingly

 good point: and why do you find it unsurprising?
because Wikidata is about structured data, which in turn plays a key
role in the Semantic Web and in computer sciences more broadly,
whereas it is less central to research in most other fields.

 integration of further fields of research

 the questions here would be:
 * into what kind of framework are you expecting to integrate other fields
 of research?
Well, Wikidata, its community and the tools around that.

 * what cultures of research will by then be determined as standard into
 which the others would then be *made to* fit?
We are not on a quest to label research cultures, but aim at making
data and metadata from various origins more interoperable and more
easily accessible to broader communities and general-purpose tools.

 btw, this might be a testing perspective re sitting uncomfortably:
 where do any results by the measuring sciences look strange due to the
 framework in which they are presented?
Not sure I understand that question. In any case, we are by no means
limited to the measuring sciences - there may well be no single
measurement in those millions of triples that the European Library
provides and that we would try to slice into chunks useful for
Wikidata. Legal documents, for instance, have been brought up on the
talk page, and while I think they will not fit into this first project
(we have limited resources and no suitable partner for that), I can
well envision follow-ups focusing entirely on issues like that.

Cheers,

Daniel

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 Subject:Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikidata for Research - a research proposal

 Hi Claudia,

 thanks for your comments. While we aim at making Wikidata useful for
 any field of research, even a successfully completed project is
 unlikely to achieve that in one go, so I've changed that phrase to
 across fields of research.

 We have tried to reach out to different disciplines (e.g.

 https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Daniel_Mietchenoffset=20141209075732limit=31target=Daniel+Mietchen
 and

 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Daniel_Mietchenoffset=20141209023643limit=34target=Daniel+Mietchen
 as well as via the blog and social media)
 but most of the reactions came - unsurprisingly - from the computer
 science and Semantic Web corners. I think that is OK, since our aim is
 to get the process rolling for a tighter integration of Wikidata with
 research - that's why we also set up the WikiProject and hope that the
 proposal will just be the first of many of its activities. Once the
 first such project has been run (be it ours or a fork thereof or a
 different one), integration of further fields of research should be
 simpler than it is today.

 I was reaching out to Europeana, which resulted in the European
 Library signing up to become a partner here, which should help cover
 arts and humanities. I have also reached out to mathematicians but did
 not receive enthusiasm. I specifically asked for databases about
 mathematical concepts or other kind of Wikidata-compatible datasets,
 but did not find any. Pointers most welcome, as are further comments
 and edits.

 Thanks and cheers,

 Daniel

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 On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 9:30 AM,  koltzenb...@w4w.net wrote:
  Hi Daniel, thank you for your pointer,
 
  the claim made in the summary
  in any field of research
  needs to be substantiated by data that
 
  * show the usefulness of the project's expected outcome for research
  fields
  in which proofs do not predominantly rely on measurement but
  predominantly
  on solidity of argumentation
  * outline how the bias towards facticity (Mautpreller 2011) in Wikidata
  disadvantages non-propositional kinds of knowledge even though the
  purported
  claim of Wikipedia is to represent the sum of all knowledge
 
  see also the list of project partners,
  e.g., representatives of the fields of Maths as well as of Arts 
  Humanities
  seem to be missing
 
  best,
  Claudia Koltzenburg
  koltzenb...@w4w.net
  My GPG-Key-ID: DDD21523
 
 
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  Sent:Fri, 12 Dec 2014 06:55:20 +0100
  Subject:[Wiki-research-l] Wikidata for Research - a research proposal
 
  Dear all,
 
  we are drafting a research proposal on establishing Wikidata as a
  virtual research environment, as explained in
 
 
  http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/12/05/wikidata-for-research-a-grant-proposal-that-anyone-can-edit/
  .
 
  The proposal is being drafted via

[Wiki-research-l] Wikidata for Research - a research proposal

[Daniel Mietchen]

Dear all,

we are drafting a research proposal on establishing Wikidata as a
virtual research environment, as explained in
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/12/05/wikidata-for-research-a-grant-proposal-that-anyone-can-edit/
.

The proposal is being drafted via
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research
and would benefit from critical review, so we would appreciate your
comments, suggestions and edits.

Thanks and cheers,

Daniel

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] How to Keep Track of Template Values Across a Wikipedia?

[Daniel Mietchen]

Hi Max,

have you tried
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Cite_doi_templates
?

Cheers,

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On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Maximilian Klein isa...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello All,

 I'm working on the Open-Access Signalling Project[1], which aims to signal
 and badge when a reference in Wikipedia is Open Access source. I'm writing
 the bot at the moment to do this, and I'm encountering a question - how do I
 keep track of the values of the template {{Cite doi | doi=value}}, in as
 close to real-time as possible?

 The most efficient approach I can come up with is to query the SQL servers
 on Labs in constant loop, returning the results of What transcludes {{Cite
 doi}} and seeing if the last_edited timestamp is newer than previous? If
 the last_edit is newer, then get the content of the page and see if the
 {{Cite_doi}} value has changed, checking against a local database.

 This seems horribly inefficient still. Is there a hook to know when a
 template on a page has been edited, rather than having to check every time
 the page has been edited?

 This is possibly not the right list for this question. If not, which other
 would you suggest? Wikitech-l did not seem right either?

 Thanks in advance,

 Max Klein
 ‽ http://notconfusing.com/

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] advice on Wikipedia topics for WikiSym 2013

[Daniel Mietchen]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Joe Corneli holtzerman...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Joe Corneli holtzerman...@gmail.com wrote:
 Along with this initiative, I suggest inviting Domas Mituzas
 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/fuzheado/228629484/) to give a keynote.

 Another nice point of reference:
 http://xkcd.com/214/

Has anyone actually done a clickstream analysis of Wikipedia?

Daniel

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia mathematical search engine

[Daniel Mietchen]

Dear Jozef,

a good example - abstractions like that from
dr_t = a(b-r_t) dt + \sigma dW_t
in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasicek_model
to
dx_t = \theta (\mu-x_t)\,dt + \sigma\, dW_t
in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornstein%E2%80%93Uhlenbeck_process
are indeed very useful and an invitation to play.

Thank you!


Daniel

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Jozef Misutka misu...@ksi.mff.cuni.cz wrote:
 Hi Daniel,


 On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Daniel Mietchen
 daniel.mietc...@googlemail.com wrote:

 Hi Jozef,

 I just played around a bit and liked what I saw, though I didn't see
 much, as the site was very slow.


 it was a HW failure (RAID5 I think...). Anyway, it was fixed several hours
 ago.




 How did you strip the dump of the non-mathematical articles?


 Very simply: a mathematical article is an article which contains lt;/math
 inside.

 I do not claim to have a perfect Wikipedia tag parser but the vast majority
 of the formulae in Wikipedia are typeset using standard Wikipedia rules and
 are simply inside text which is fine.


 I am
 asking because one of the major uses that I have in mind for a good
 mathematical search engine would be to identify areas around topic A
 (say, theoretical biology) that use the same concepts as those in
 topic B (say, economics). Very often such distant fields are only
 weakly connected, but solutions or approaches that work in one of them
 are not infrequently transferable.


 That is exactly one of the interesting applications for a mathematical
 search engine.

 I wanted to reply to you with something interesting, so I called my friend
 asking him about interesting formulae from economy. He told me about Vasicek
 model, so I tried to search for the formula
 dr_t = a(b-r_t) dt + \sigma dW_t
 which resulted in 2 hits at no abstraction level - no big deal. But then I
 tried to abstract it and another hit came which is imho interesting
 (different variables used but the same formula).

 Vasicek model
 Vasicek model and similar



 In order to be useful for such
 purposes, your corpus would still have to contain the economics/
 theoretical biology articles (at least those that use equations), but
 I couldn't find evidence for that.


 See the number of documents (and categories) when you search for simple text
 e.g.,
 economy
 http://egomath.projekty.ms.mff.cuni.cz/index.php?math=q=economy
 biology
 http://egomath.projekty.ms.mff.cuni.cz/index.php?math=q=biology

 Jozef



 Daniel

 On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Jozef Misutka misu...@ksi.mff.cuni.cz
 wrote:
  Hi,
 
  I want to introduce a *mathematical* search engine working over English
  Wikipedia dump. The key advantage is simple - *it works* ;).
  Better than a nice speech is a real demo which can be found here:
  http://egomath.projekty.ms.mff.cuni.cz
 
  If you are somehow interested or just want to share your thoughts do not
  hesitate to contact me.
 
  Best regards,
  Jozef Misutka
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  Department of Software Engineering,
  www: http://www.ksi.mff.cuni.cz/cs/~misutka
 
 
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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia mathematical search engine

[Daniel Mietchen]

Hi Jozef,

I just played around a bit and liked what I saw, though I didn't see
much, as the site was very slow.

How did you strip the dump of the non-mathematical articles? I am
asking because one of the major uses that I have in mind for a good
mathematical search engine would be to identify areas around topic A
(say, theoretical biology) that use the same concepts as those in
topic B (say, economics). Very often such distant fields are only
weakly connected, but solutions or approaches that work in one of them
are not infrequently transferable. In order to be useful for such
purposes, your corpus would still have to contain the economics/
theoretical biology articles (at least those that use equations), but
I couldn't find evidence for that.

Daniel

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Jozef Misutka misu...@ksi.mff.cuni.cz wrote:
 Hi,

 I want to introduce a *mathematical* search engine working over English
 Wikipedia dump. The key advantage is simple - *it works* ;).
 Better than a nice speech is a real demo which can be found here:
 http://egomath.projekty.ms.mff.cuni.cz

 If you are somehow interested or just want to share your thoughts do not
 hesitate to contact me.

 Best regards,
 Jozef Misutka
 __
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 Department of Software Engineering,
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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Workshop call for participation: WikiLit: Collecting the Wiki and Wikipedia Literature at WikiSym 2011

[Daniel Mietchen]

Dear Reid and Phoebe,

I would love to participate, but can't make it to WikiSym. Do you see
a way to participate online?

Thanks and cheers,

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On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Reid Priedhorsky r...@reidster.net wrote:
 Hi all,

 Phoebe Ayers and I are leading a workshop at WikiSym this year,
 WikiLit: Collecting the Wiki and Wikipedia Literature. We would love
 to have your participation!

 This workshop has three key goals. First, we will examine existing and
 proposed systems for collecting and analyzing the research literature
 about wikis. Second, we will discuss the challenges in building such a
 system and will engage participants to design a sustainable
 collaborative system to achieve this goal. Finally, we will provide a
 forum to build upon ongoing wiki community discussions about problems
 and opportunities in finding and sharing the wiki research literature.

 For more details, please see:

  http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011/workshop:wikilit

 Please do not hesitate to ask questions, either by replying here on the
 list or by contacting me or Phoebe (psay...@ucdavis.edu) directly.

 Looking forward to seeing you at WikiSym!

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fraction of reverts

[Daniel Mietchen]

Hi Denny,

just read
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-08-15/Women_and_Wikipediaoldid=445064196
earlier today, which
states
Women are more likely to be reverted when they have very few edits
(7% vs 5%); however, in accounts with more than eight edits, the
effect disappears.

Cheers,

Daniel

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:53 AM, Denny Vrandecic
vrande...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Hello,

 does anyone have a rough estimate of how many edits get reverted?
 Does anyone have a study handy?

 Cheers,
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[Wiki-research-l] How to cite versioned documents - a wiki example

[Daniel Mietchen]

Dear colleagues,

if a wiki contains information originally published elsewhere, the
question arises how the updated wiki version of such information
should be properly cited.

The Species ID wiki ( http://www.species-id.net/ ) has recently, in
collaboration with the journals ZooKeys and PhytoKeys as well as the
Plazi repository, imported a number of taxonomic treatments as wiki
pages, and the above-mentioned issue was addressed by incorporating
the generic link to the wiki page into new journal publications, and
providing a suggested citation format on-wiki that includes the
original work along with a permalink to the most recent wiki version
and the wiki contributors until that version.

For some example pages, see
http://species-id.net/wiki/Neobidessodes_darwiniensis or
http://species-id.net/wiki/Sinocallipus_catba .

The publisher's news release on the matter is at
http://www.pensoft.net/news.php?n=53 , and I have commented in my blog
at
http://www.science3point0.com/evomri/2011/04/16/citing-versioned-papers-robots-and-reviewers/
, touching upon the need for a tailored karma system.

Comments and suggestions very welcome.

With my best wishes,

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Foundation-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: UPEI's proposal for a universal citation index

[Daniel Mietchen]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Brian J Mingus
brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote:
 I like your suggestion that the abc disambiguator be chosen based on the
 first date of publication, and I also like the prospect of using slashes
 since they can't be contained in names. Using the full year is a good idea
 too. We can combine these to come up with a key that, in principle, is
 guaranteed to be unique. This key would contain:

 1) The first three author names separated by slashes
why not separate by pluses? they don't form part of names either, and
don't cause problems with wiki page titles.

 2) If there are more than three authors, an EtAl
don't think that's necessary if we get the abc part right.

 3) Some or all of the date. For instance, if there is only one source by
 this set of authors that year, we can just use . However, once another
 source by those set of authors is added, the key should change to MMDD
 or similar.
I don't think it is a good idea to change one key as a function of
updates on another, except for a generic disambiguation tag.

 If there are multiple publications on the same day, we can
 resort to abc. Redirects and disambiguation pages can be set up when a key
 changes.
As Jodi pointed out already, the exact date is often not clearly
identifiable, so I would go simply for the year.
Instead of an alphabetic abc, one could use some function of the
article title (e.g. the first three words thereof, or the initials of
the first three words), always in lower case.

An even less ambiguous abc would be starting page (for printed stuff)
or article number (for online only) but this brings us back to the
7523225 problem you mentioned above.

 Since the slashes are somewhat cumbersome, perhaps we can not make them
 mandatory, but similarly use them only when they are necessary in order to
 escape a name. In the case that one of the authors does not have a slash
 in their name - the dominant case - we can stick to the easily legible and
 niecly compact CamelCase format.

 Example keys generated by this algorithm:

 KangHsuKrajbichEtAl2009
Kang+Hsu+Krajbich+2009+the+wick+in
or
Kang+Hsu+Krajbich+2009+twi

also note that the CamelCase key does not yield results in a google
search, whereas the first plused variant brings up the right work
correctly, while the plused one with initialed title tends to bring at
least something written by or cited from these authors.

 Author1Author2/Author-Three/2009
Author1+Author2+Author-Three+2009+just+another+article
or
Author1+Author2+Author-Three+2009+jat

Of course, it does not have to be _exactly_ three authors, nor three
words from the title, and it does not solve the John Smith (or Zheng
Wang) problem.

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Foundation-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: UPEI's proposal for a universal citation index

[Daniel Mietchen]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote:
 1) The first three author names separated by slashes
 why not separate by pluses? they don't form part of names either, and
 don't cause problems with wiki page titles.

 I like this... however, how would you represent this in a URL?
%2B would seem to be the obvious choice to me.

 Also note that
 using plusses in page names don't work with all server configurations, since
 plus has a special meaning in URLs.

Don't know too much about the double escaping business to comment on that, but
if pluses are not acceptable, we still have equal signs (possibly with
similar problems, but
still useful for direct web search) and underscores (which would turn
the whole key into one
string for search engines).

Daniel

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: modern foundations of scientific consensus

[Daniel Mietchen]

Hello together,

I am really glad to have found this discussion!

I think that having a central repository with a dedicated page for
each citable item (and possibly subpages for aspects thereof, like
figures or tables) is the way to go.

http://openlibrary.org/ are heading in this direction (though only for
books), and I have long wished to see some wiki version thereof,
preferably with semantic integration. Acawiki is the closest I have
seen so far, and if WikiPapers goes beyond that, I would also
appreciate the possibility to take a closer look at it. Where can your
proposal to the Foundation be found, Brian?

Aiming at systems allowing for two-way citation is a good idea, too,
and I would like to add that http://article-level-metrics.plos.org/.

Some further points that come to mind - I have no idea, though, how
far they have already been considered in your round
(1) the name of the page: Acawiki currently uses the article title,
but this creates problems in cases like
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14707297 and
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20171346 . Better would be a system
based on universal identifiers like DOI and ISBN, if such exists for
the kind of media referenced.

(2) Aiming at systems allowing for two-way citation is probably a good
idea, as they would allow some meaningful addition to the emerging
range article-level metrics that more and more publishers (especially
those in the Open Access world) are setting up (cf.
http://everyone.plos.org/2009/12/09/article-level-metrics-presentation-to-berkeley-and-ucsf/
).

(3) In principle, wikification does not have to be restricted to
sources, and semantic techniques could allow to include authors as
well (where identification problems are even worse, though solution
attempts are on the way, e.g. http://www.orcid.org/ ), or even
institutions.

(4) Like with other reference management systems, integration with
citation workflows is crucial, e.g. portability to and from BibTeX
files (cf. 
http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/286121-export-in-wiki-format
), or direct links to PDF, HTML or XML files the individual wiki user
has access to. Several reference managers are building a very large
database of metadata - in part taken from public repositories, in part
from PDF indexing and in part from manual editing. There might be room
for synergies.

Cheers,


Daniel

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