[Wiki-research-l] [DEPRECATED] datasets.wikimedia.org

Hi all, *Who: *This mostly applies to people who have access to the stat1002 and stat1003 statistics machines on the production cluster, and publish datasets as static files. *What:* We are no longer using datasets.wikimedia.org to serve static datasets. We have set up a redirect, so requests

Re: [Wiki-research-l] EventStreams launch and RCStream deprecation

Hi all, This is just a friendly reminder that we plan to turn off the RCStream service after July 7th. We’re tracking as best we can the progress of porting clients over at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156919. But, we can only help with what we know about. If you’ve got something still

Re: [Wiki-research-l] today's survey

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Toby Negrin wrote: > Interesting discussion! > > Leila - if I understand correctly the categories were arrived at by asking > a number of readers for a free form response, then hand coding these into > larger categories - is that right?

Re: [Wiki-research-l] today's survey

Interesting discussion! Leila - if I understand correctly the categories were arrived at by asking a number of readers for a free form response, then hand coding these into larger categories - is that right? -Toby On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 08:43 Leila Zia wrote: > On Thu,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] Wikipedia Detox: Scaling up our understanding of harassment on Wikipedia

>but that doesn't necessarily mean that we should use policy and admin tools instead of persuasion and other tools (such as content policies about verifiability and notability) to address them ... >I had an experience myself when I made a statement to someone which from my perspective was a

Re: [Wiki-research-l] today's survey

I think that I understand WereSpiekChequers problem. I received similar feedback from an experienced Hebrew Wikipedia editor: he said he was disappointed that "I was reading this article to fibd something to improve". I guess that this is a very common reason for experienced Wikipedians, but not

Re: [Wiki-research-l] today's survey

Hi, [for others who may not know what this question is referring to: we starting running surveys in 14 languages a couple of hours ago. These surveys will help us expand the result of Why We Read Wikipedia to more languages. The 14 languages participating are documented at

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] Wikipedia Detox: Scaling up our understanding of harassment on Wikipedia

I agree you can probably never pin down these terms to everyone's satisfaction. But, at the end of the day, is the real issue here the definition of harassment or is it the issue of people leaving Wikipedia because of unpleasant interactions with other people or perhaps retaliating in some