[Wiki-research-l] Testing ways to make your Wikipedia thrive: Collaborating with CivilServant in 2020

Hi Wiki Research List! Are you interested to make discoveries that could help your Wiki project thrive? Let's talk! Or join us for a one-day research summit after Wikimania on August 19. Funding is available. CivilServant is a research nonprofit that works

Re: [Wiki-research-l] distinguishing native contributors from helpful strangers

Hi all, I think this is an excellent research topic that might give us helpful insights on how Wikipedias can benefit from the support provided by non-speakers. Discerning the namespaces where this support ends and whether it was made by humans or bots may also give highly useful information. My

Re: [Wiki-research-l] distinguishing native contributors from helpful strangers

On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 09:42, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > There is a phenomenon in Wikipedias in smaller languages: There activity > level of people who actually know the language of the wiki and make > meaningful text contributions is relatively low, and the activity of people > from other wikis

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia search queries log

Hi Leila, Thanks for your prompt feedback. I'll prepare and send you a proposal directly. Regards, On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 3:44 PM Leila Zia wrote: > > Hi Sérgio, > > If your proposal is aligned with the annual plan for Wikimedia > Foundation's Research team for the next year (still in the

Re: [Wiki-research-l] distinguishing native contributors from helpful strangers

Hi Amir, This is an interesting idea. I haven't found a way to detect whether an editor is native or not. My approach to multingual editing is through the concept of having a primary-non primary Wikipedias. Your primary Wikipedia is the one where you have made more edits to (and you are a primary

[Wiki-research-l] distinguishing native contributors from helpful strangers

Hi, There is a phenomenon in Wikipedias in smaller languages: There activity level of people who actually know the language of the wiki and make meaningful text contributions is relatively low, and the activity of people from other wikis who make various technical edits that don't require the