Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikitrends

2012-02-21 Thread James Salsman
Ed, Please consider asking Johan Gunnarsson to collaborate with you. He did something similar (with the same name) in 2008 which you can see at: http://toolserver.org/~johang/wikitrends Best regards, James Salsman > Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:01:28 -0500 > From: Ed Summers > To: Research into W

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Permission to use Wikipedia's (or any sister project's) screenshots in academic papers or books

2012-02-21 Thread Han-Teng Liao
Dear colleagues, After a bit of Web search, I get the impression that a screenshot of Wikipedia page will involve three copyright licences: (1) text is CC-BY-SA, (2) software/inteface is GPLv2 and (3) Wikipedia logo is not released under any free license at all. So the question is: What i

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fact Check/事实查证: Did Ward Cunningham say this: "Starting from Wiki, the U.S. leadership position in Internet will be gradually overtaken by China"

2012-02-21 Thread Han-Teng Liao
Dear colleagues, There is a *widely-circulated* statement in Chinese Internet that Mr. Ward Cunningham has expressed that, "starting from Wiki, the U.S. leadership in Internet will be gradually overtaken by China". Is it true? I cannot find the original quote in English. The original st

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Statistics on wiki page editing/creation by country?

2012-02-21 Thread emijrp
Here you have some statistics by country http://stats.wikimedia.org/#countries Do you have any blog/site where we can read about your research progress? 2012/2/21 alina ostling > Hi! > I am doing a PhD on online civic participation project > (e-participation). Within my research, I have carried

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Statistics on wiki page editing/creation by country?

2012-02-21 Thread Laura Hale
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:09 AM, alina ostling wrote: > Hi! > I am doing a PhD on online civic participation project > (e-participation). Within my research, I have carried out a user > survey, where I asked how many people ever edited/created a page on a > Wiki. Now I would like to compare the r

[Wiki-research-l] Statistics on wiki page editing/creation by country?

2012-02-21 Thread alina ostling
Hi! I am doing a PhD on online civic participation project (e-participation). Within my research, I have carried out a user survey, where I asked how many people ever edited/created a page on a Wiki. Now I would like to compare the results with the overall rate of wiki editing/creation on country l

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikitrends

2012-02-21 Thread Ed Summers
Yes, this is clearly something that needs to be done :-) Would it be best to have a drop down that lets you select the project? I think jumbling them all together would make things a bit less interesting. //Ed On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Erik Zachte wrote: > Awesome! > > Followed by the ob

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikitrends

2012-02-21 Thread Erik Zachte
Awesome! Followed by the obligatory "Could you please also " ;-) In this case the dots stand for "add pages other Wikipedia wikis, ideally also for other sister projects?" All data are in the same file you use already. Best, Erik Zachte -Original Message- From: wiki-research-l-

[Wiki-research-l] wikitrends

2012-02-21 Thread Ed Summers
I imagine something like this has already been done before, but I thought I would mention it as a curiosity: Wikitrends http://inkdroid.org/wikitrends/ Wikitrends is a display of the top 25 view articles on English Wikipedia in the latest hour. It relies on stats that Wikimedia make avail