Re: [Wiki-research-l] WMF Open Access Policy and Independent Researchers

2016-06-28 Thread Piotr Konieczny
The problem is that most of those are not indexed in top tier indexes. For example, my career requires me to publish in SSCI index, and in my field, sociology, do you know how many out of ~120 journals indexed in SSCI are green open access? Zero. WMF grants exist to make research easier, but t

Re: [Wiki-research-l] WMF Open Access Policy and Independent Researchers

2016-06-28 Thread Stuart A. Yeates
There are many open access journals which do not charge fees or any description. See http://www.opendoar.org/ or talk to a friendly librarian to find a journal that meets your needs. cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Maximilian Klein

[Wiki-research-l] WMF Open Access Policy and Independent Researchers

2016-06-28 Thread Maximilian Klein
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

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] question about Pageviews dumps

2016-06-28 Thread Oliver Keyes
If historic data is okay, there's already a dataset released ( https://figshare.com/articles/Activity_Sessions_datasets/1291033) that was designed specifically to answer questions around how to best calculate session length with regards to Wikipedia (http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.2878) On Tue, Jun 28,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] question about Pageviews dumps

2016-06-28 Thread Marc Miquel
Hello! I was thinking about user sessions, yes, so this would mean to aggregate pageviews visited by a user during a short amount of time (I should check the cutoff, but it could be around an hour or less). I am particularly interested in understanding the order in which pages are seen (start, en

Re: [Wiki-research-l] question about Pageviews dumps

2016-06-28 Thread Leila Zia
+ Analytics On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 6:36 AM, Marc Miquel wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question for you regarding pageviews datadumps. > > I am considering to study reader engagement for different article topics > in different languages. Because of this, I would like to know if there is > any pl

[Wiki-research-l] question about Pageviews dumps

2016-06-28 Thread Marc Miquel
Hello, I have a question for you regarding pageviews datadumps. I am considering to study reader engagement for different article topics in different languages. Because of this, I would like to know if there is any plan to make available pageviews dumps detailing activity log at session level per