Hi,
Is there any research about the effect of vandalism in wiki content pages
on readers, experienced editors, and new and potential editors?
And of abuse in discussion pages and edit summaries on experienced editors
and new and potential editors?
Intuitively and anecdotally one could think of t
Thanks a lot for bringing this up.
Sorry for not offering a solution, but I do want to mention a
frequently-missed aspect of the problem: Wikis in different languages have
some differences that are understandable because they reflect some
objective cultural characteristics of the people who speak
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
know
The suggestions that bring up the Simple English Wikipedia miss the fact
that it only covers the English language, which most people don't know, and
doesn't do almost anything for the many other languages of the world. (I'm
saying "almost anything" because I know that there are people who prefer to
Very interesting and much-needee research. Thanks for doing this. I'd love
to see the results and even the process.
Some things to consider:
1. How long is the tradition of having published encyclopedias in that
culture?
2. Alphabet: Using a common alphabet may make it somewhat easier to
translate
Heather,
Thanks for starting this thread.
Where can I read your research that comes to the conclusion that automated
mechanisms are insufficient for solving the gaps problem?
Sorry if this was mentioned somewhere already; I sometimes get lost on long
emails, and it's possible that I missed it :)
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 n
These are valid questions, and I am curious about them as well.
The suggested reasons for choosing Welsh over English are valid as well,
and I would add a couple more:
1. They study in a Welsh school and had to research the topic for a
homework assignment, which they have to write in Welsh.
2. T
I actually suspect that Twinkle is ones of the causes of the famous
flattening of the growth that happened in 2007. Twinkle was introduced
around the same time. Telling new people they are doing something wrong
became too easy, and sticking around became less fun. Though operated by
humans, Twinkle
2017-02-21 17:56 GMT+02:00 Melody Kramer (ET) :
> Another fun experiment: a blood bank in Sweden texts donors to thank them
> after donating, and then AGAIN when the blood is actually used:
> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/blood-
> donors-in-sweden-get-a-text-message-whenever-some
I agree with pretty much all that Bob says here, except one important
point: This is probably correct for Wikipedia in English, and maybe a few
other very big languages.
A rarely remembered fact: most people don't know English.
In other languages there's much work to do in writing articles on mat
The English Wikipedia alone has hundreds of thousands of items to fix -
missing references, misspellings, etc. The problems are nicely sorted at
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_backlog . There are
millions of other things to fix in other projects. So quality is getting
higher in
Hi,
Here's a fun simple little idea:
Did anybody ever try to find what are the most common link trails wikis in
different languages?
In English, for example, the two most common ones will probably be "s" and
"es", in links like [[bottle]]s and [[box]]es; these two possibly appear
millions of tim
Hi,
It's probably not the most important thing to research but just out of
curiosity... Did anybody compare the frequency of {{DEFAULTSORT}} usage in
Wikipedias in different languages?
I just realized that in Japanese it is _probably_ used more frequently than
in other languages, maybe because so
Thanks for this email.
This raises a wider question: What is the comfortable way to compare the
coverage of a topic in different languages?
For example, I'd love to see a report that says:
Number of articles about UNESCO cultural heritage:
English Wikipedia: 1000
French Wikipedia: 1200
Hebrew Wi
> On Jul 13, 2015 10:29 AM, "Jonathan Morgan" wrote:
>
>> Cross-posting this request to wiki-research-l. Anyone have data on
>> frequently used section titles in articles (any language), or know of
>> datasets/publications that examined this?
>>
>> I
Bot creations, not translations. Something that is better done with tools
like Wikidata and Reasonator. Similar thongs were done in Swedish and in
Cebuano, another regional language in the Philippines.
בתאריך 1 במאי 2015 11:44, "Pine W" כתב:
> Hi researchers,
>
> I was surprised to learn that th
> WMF does not "own" me as a contributor; it does not decide who can and
cannot recruit me for whatever purposes.
I don't think that it really should be about WMF. The WMF shouldn't enforce
anything. The community can formulate good practices for researchers and
_advise_ community members not to c
People whose last name is Abbot will be discriminated.
And a true story: A prominent human Catalan Wikipedia editor whose name is
PauCabot skewed the results of an actual study.
So don't trust just the user names.
בתאריך 18 במאי 2014 19:34, מאת "Andrew G. West" :
> User name policy states that "
Hi,
Is there any list of academic studies of Wikimedia projects sorted or
tagged by topic? In particular I'm interested in anything to do with
translation, but it is useful for other topics as well.
The best thing that I could think of now is going to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Acade
topics.
> For
> > further information, see Section 4.2 in this paper:
> >
> http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/webis/publications/papers/stein_2012d.pdf
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Maik
> >
> > --
> > Maik Anderka
> > Research Group "Knowled
Hallo,
Is there any known easy way to classify Wikipedia articles into a
relatively small number of types?
By "relatively small" I mean no more than twenty, and by "types" I mean
things that are intuitively clear to readers, for example:
* Biographies
* Articles about scientific phenomena (can be
I'm not sure of what do you mean by "language switch". Do you mean
"adding, removing or changing a link to a version of the article in
another language"?
If that's what you mean, then you should indeed search for
[[code:title]], and note that the 'code' part is one of the 270 or so
language codes
2012/5/3 Richard Jensen :
> Looking at a spinoff Shakespeare article: [[Shakespeare's plays]]. It's peak
> activity year was 2007. A dozen people made 10 or more edits. It has 26
> citations and no bibliography. There are no scholarly journals. Half the
> citations are over 40 years old. Only on
2012/5/3 Richard Jensen :
> Shakespeare received 648,000 views in April 2012, compared to 585,000 in
> April 2010 and 575,000 in April 2008. As for the often heard fear that
> anyone can edit it, note that 1100 editors are watching over that article
> and are alerted to any changes. However none
2012/5/2 Richard Jensen :
> I am looking at the edit history of a number of major articles on historical
> topics (in the English Wikipedia)
A random sample, or something systematic?
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I want
2012/3/29 Sumana Harihareswara :
> >From a recent hackathon
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Chennai_Hackathon_March_2012 , a project
> that might be of interest to researchers:
>
>> 3. Find list of unique Tamil words in tawiki
>> By: Shrinivasan T
>>
>> What it does:
>> It took the entire tamil wi
2011/1/25 Felipe Ortega
>
> Hi all.
>
> I just discovered this, it may be potentially interesting for the Wikipedia
> research community.
>
> In short, now for any Wikipedia page, not only articles, e.g.
More precisely, for any English Wikipedia page. This tool is useful
for all languages, but it
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