Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2018-03-18 Thread Leila Zia 
Hi Frans,

On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 5:59 AM, Frans Grijzenhout 
wrote:

> Hi Leila, thank you for sharing the results of this important survey. Must
> have been a tremendous job and we are very happy to have this information
> about our readers now available. We will certainly discuss this with the
> Dutch WP community. During this discussion we will of course also focus on
> the difference between WP-NL and some other languages (another valuable
> aspect of this research).
>

​Sure. If you need our help somewhere, please let me know. We're trying to
document everything, including how the results can be read by each
community, but I feel I'm always behind on documentation. :/ If you all run
into questions, just post them in the meta page. I'd also be happy to make
myself available for a call if that helps.

We will keep you posted (through your point of contact) if we learn more
about Dutch Wikipedia readers as we go deeper in analysis.

Best,
Leila



> Thanks again, Frans
>
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> 2018-03-15 17:45 GMT+01:00 Leila Zia :
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We are ready to share the result of the first part of the study for
> > the 14 languages that participated in the survey with you. To recap:
> > the goal of the first part of the study was to compute the prevalence
> > of the use-cases of Wikipedia across the 14 languages, basically,
> > generating plots similar to Figure 2 in our earlier research [0] for
> > these languages. What took most of our time was the debiasing step we
> > had to take for every language and triple-checking the results to make
> > sure we didn't make a mistake. You can read more about this first part
> > at the blog post we just published [1] and on meta [2].
> >
> > What's left? A lot! :) We took one big step to make sense of the data,
> > but there is a lot left. We have now entered the second phase of the
> > study during which we will try to do a deeper analysis to characterize
> > readers by survey response type across as many languages as we can.
> > The higher the number of survey responses from a language, the higher
> > the chances for us to be able to get good results in this phase. We
> > expect to be able to do this deeper analysis in around 5 languages,
> > maybe more. We will let you know once we know more about this part.
> >
> > This is a good opportunity for me to thank many of you who have made
> > this research possible. Many colleagues at Wikimedia Foundation
> > stepped up and helped us in every step of the way, thanks to all of
> > you. I specifically want to call out the work that the points of
> > contacts and volunteers put to help us run the survey in your
> > languages [3] and to our formal collaborators Bob West (EPFL,
> > User:Cervisiarius) and Florian Lemmerich (RWTH Aachen University,
> > User:Flemmerich) who have been working in this area of research, truly
> > tirelessly. Florian had a lot of sleepless nights to prepare these
> > results.
> >
> > If you have questions or comments, you know where to find us: IRC
> > channel #wikimedia-research on freenode (look for leila or lzia), the
> > discussion page where we document things, etc. Your role is key now.
> > Please look at the results in your languages, ponder on them, and tell
> > us if you see interesting patterns that we have missed and we should
> > consider digging deeper in and making sense of. And, please enjoy
> > using this data for your language. We stand behind these results [4].
> >
> > Best,
> > Leila
> >
> > [0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.05379.pdf
> > [1] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/15/why-the-world-reads-wikipedia/
> > [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_
> > Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour/Robustness_across_languages
> > [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_
> > Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour/Robustness_across_languages#
> > Participating_languages
> > [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_
> > Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour/Robustness_across_languages#Results
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 12:28 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
> >  wrote:
> > > OK, I did it :)
> > >
> > > I don't write in the Russian Wikipedia as much as I do in Hebrew and
> > > English, but it should be OK.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
> > > http://aharoni.wordpress.com
> > > ‪“We're living in pieces,
> > > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬
> > >
> > > 2017-06-21 9:57 GMT+03:00 Leila Zia :
> > >
> > >> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
> > >>  wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > If I want this done for Hebrew and Russian, do I just reply to this
> > >> thread?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> [Amir, you are aware of this but I'm hoping by saying it here we can
> > >> change the outcome.]
> > >>
> > >> At the moment, all text is translated to R

[Wikimedia-l] ¿Qué te hace feliz esta semana? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 18 March 2018)

2018-03-18 Thread Pine W 
What's making me happy this week:

* French Wikipedia administrator and OTRS volunteer 0x010C
 created a calendar in Lua
that works on MediaWiki. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik
i/Template:Events_calendar and https://lists.wikimedia.org/pi
permail/wikimedia-l/2018-March/089886.html.

* Wikimedia Russia's multilingual writing contest regarding cities and
regions in the 2018 FIFA world cup looks interesting. I like the concept of
associating Wikipedia writing campaigns with popular current events. See
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%83
%D1%80%D1%81%D1%8B/%D0%A3%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%A0%
D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8E._%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%
B4%D0%B0_%D0%B8_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%8B_
%D0%A7%D0%9C_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D1%84%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%83_2018/en
and https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-March/089876.html
.

* Persian Wikipedia administrator Mohammad

quickly reverted (in approximately 7 minutes) an edit which inserted
cryptomining JavaScript into commons.js. See https://lists.wikimedia.org/pi
permail/wikitech-l/2018-March/089629.html.

From the WMF Blog:

* "Confound it!—Supporting languages with multiple writing systems":
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/12/supporting-languages-
multiple-writing-systems/

* "James Heilman on expanding the reach of Wikipedia’s medical information":
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/13/offline-access-medical-information/

* "How we’re using machine learning to visually enrich Wikidata":
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/14/machine-learning-visually-enriching-wikidata/

What's making you happy this week?

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikisource IRC 2018

2018-03-18 Thread Ananth Subray 
Dear Mathieu,

You can find the IRC chat log here -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/IRC_meeting_2017-02-25

On Mar 17, 2018 6:19 PM, "mathieu stumpf guntz" <
psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote:

> Hello Ananth,
>
> I'm sorry I missed this meeting. Is there a log of this conversation or
> some minutes somewhere? I found nothing related in
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/IRC
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
> Le 15/02/2018 à 16:49, Ananth Subray a écrit :
>
> Dear All,
>
> Firstly I would like to thank you for the continuous support and
> contribution to the Wikimedia movement.
>
>
> Wikisource is originally called Project Sourceberg as a play on words
> for Project Gutenberg  
> . Wikisource began in
> November 2003, as a collection of supporting texts for articles in
> Wikipedia. Grew rapidly, reaching a total of 20,000 text units in various
> languages by May 18, 2005. For updated page/ digitised content you go 
> here 
> 
>
> In August and September of 2005, Wikisource moved to separate subdomains
> for different languages. From that time Indic community members are
> actively taking part to increase the content in your language Wikisource.
>
>
> But Indic community members have not got any chance to meet each other and
> share best practices of their community. Keeping this in mind we are
> planning to have an IRC[1] on 25th February 2018 (@8:00 PM) for the Indic
> community. Please suggest Agenda for the IRC in Google 
> Doc
>  
> 
> [3]
>
> [1]. https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#cis-a2k
> [2]. https://tools.wmflabs.org/phetools/statistics.php?diff=0
> [3]. https://docs.google.com/document/d/11T9qUpNfx6wY06mVQ8X
> qXox26PP34eEPyswz8qP_xwU/edit?usp=sharing
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>
>
> *ANANTH SUBRAY P V(ಅನಂತ್)*
>
> Programme Associate
>
> Access to Knowledge program
>
> The Centre for Internet & Society
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