Re: [Wiki-research-l] citations to articles cited on wikipedia?

2015-08-20 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Dear all, thanks for the great thread - what do you think of turning it into a contribution to the next issue of the Research Newsletter, which is likely to be started at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-08-26/Recent_research soon? During the Wikimania hackathon, we a

Re: [Wiki-research-l] citations to articles cited on wikipedia?

2015-08-20 Thread Mark J . Nelson
Andrew Gray writes: > They worked on a journal basis, classing them as "OA" or "not OA". But > this is, in some ways, a very small sample. See, eg/, pp. > http://science-metrix.com/files/science-metrix/publications/d_1.8_sm_ec_dg-rtd_proportion_oa_1996-2013_v11p.pdf, > which suggests that articl

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Has the recent increase in English wikipedia's core community gone beyond a statistical blip?

2015-08-20 Thread Aaron Halfaker
+1 Jonathan. I also agree that the place where HHVM is likely to have an effect is in high-speed editing activities. This was my conclusion when I had completed the experimental deployment to newcomers with Ori. I think a good place to look would be edits that happen though the API. I had a pro

Re: [Wiki-research-l] citations to articles cited on wikipedia?

2015-08-20 Thread Andrew Gray
On 20 August 2015 at 06:54, Jane Darnell wrote: > ..."the odds that an open access journal is referenced on > the English Wikipedia are 47% higher compared to closed access" > > Thanks for posting! That's an interesting paper, for all sorts of reasons. I > read it because I highly doubt that the n

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Looking for comparisons of the goals of Wikimedia and other organisations

2015-08-20 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
john cummings, 20/08/2015 10:30: I'm currently working as Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO, does anyone know of any work done to compare the goals of Wikimedia with other organisations who work in education? What part of Wikimedia's activities do you classify as "work in education"? Nemo ___

[Wiki-research-l] Looking for comparisons of the goals of Wikimedia and other organisations

2015-08-20 Thread john cummings
Hi all I'm currently working as Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO, does anyone know of any work done to compare the goals of Wikimedia with other organisations who work in education? My specific interest is comparisons of Wikimedia and the United Nations and it's departments. Thanks John ___