[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Wikimedia movement strategy process (#1!)

2016-12-15 Thread Pine W
Forwarding Katherine's email because this may also be of interest to technical audiences and Wikimedia affiliates who don't subscribe to Wikimedia-l. Also including Research-l because the strategy process will likely be influenced by existing research, and may involve new research initiatives.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Engaging and learning from Japanese Wikipedia

2016-12-15 Thread Leila Zia
Hi Pine, My response is not directly related to editor contributions to Japanese Wikipedia but you may still be interested to know: We are aiming to learn more about Japanese Wikipedia readers (aim = we're interested, we asked a member of the Japanese Wikipedia community to help us translate the

Re: [Wiki-research-l] another pageview db to download

2016-12-15 Thread Dario Taraborelli
Thanks for the release, Alex. I am sorry to see this resource go but agree the data will be of great interest to researchers / app developers. In terms of how to best store the data and metadata for long-term preservation and discoverability, my recommendation is to use an open data registry

[Wiki-research-l] Engaging and learning from Japanese Wikipedia

2016-12-15 Thread Pine W
The topic of audiences was discussed at today's WMF Metrics and Activities meeting. Looking at https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/Sitemap.htm, and sorting by editors (5+ per million speakers), there are some language communities that appear to have high participation rates on their language's edition

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia Education] [Education-collab] Sharing some good news!

2016-12-15 Thread Shani
Adam, Thanks so much for your warm words. It is much appreciated, not to mention encouraging -- there's nothing better than knowing this paper is of use to others. :) Your ORES initiative is important and very relevant not only to the education program, but to the way we review articles in