Re: [Wiki-research-l] Constructing sensible baselines for Wikipedia language development analytics

2014-07-08 Thread Han-Teng Liao (OII)
er page on those > pages in the specific language > ... > > Other important measurements could be the number of active editors over > all, the number of edits appearing in the recent changes list per > day/month/year, the number of pages created or deleted per day/month/year..

[Wiki-research-l] Constructing sensible baselines for Wikipedia language development analytics

2014-07-08 Thread Han-Teng Liao (OII)
scholarly publications across languages (suggested data sources?) * Number of major newspaper publications across languages (suggested data sources?) Please share your thoughts! -- han-teng liao "[O]nce the Imperial Institute of France and the Royal Society of London begin to work to

[Wiki-research-l] We need overview quality-minded metrics for different language versions of Wikipedia.

2014-07-06 Thread Han-Teng Liao (OII)
eself too thin with inconsequential short articles. Let us have a discussion here [Wiki-research-l], before we extend the conversation to [Wikimedia-i]. Best, han-teng liao -- han-teng liao "[O]nce the Imperial Institute of France and the Royal Society of London begin to work together o

Re: [Wiki-research-l] this month's research newsletter

2014-07-06 Thread Han-Teng Liao (OII)
ers to the public impacts that are not normally recorded and calculated by academic communities. The Wikimedia platforms can thus fill in the gap by providing a place to document/measure/publicize the latest scholarly researches regarding Wiki research, and thereby establishing a "public route&quo

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Any tools available to query a presence of a (digital humanities) website across language versions of Wikipedia

2013-07-12 Thread Han-Teng Liao
of digital humanities websites. For the case of measuring welshjournals.llgc.org.uk, I believe that stats from Welsh Wikipedia (cy.wikipedia.org) is necessary for this case, but not included by the LinkSearch. Best, han-teng liao 2013/7/12 Federico Leva (Nemo) > Han-Teng Liao, 12/07/2013 11:

[Wiki-research-l] Any tools available to query a presence of a (digital humanities) website across language versions of Wikipedia

2013-07-12 Thread Han-Teng Liao
is cited/linked (citation is different from external linking). Best, han-teng liao ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Recruiting gamers to edit Wikimedia

2013-07-08 Thread Han-Teng Liao
Fwww.fuwoo.com%252FOneWord%252FList%252F35133%253Fkey%253D%2526pageIndex%253D74%3B974%3B562 Thus, I think there is some space there to reassert the power and possibilities of open cultural references and resources when it comes to reaching out the gamers. Through more open sharing and creation o

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Recruiting gamers to edit Wikimedia

2013-07-07 Thread Han-Teng Liao
t; *From:* wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: > wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *Han-Teng Liao > *Sent:* Sunday, 7 July 2013 7:43 PM > > *To:* Research into Wikimedia content and communities > *Cc:* e...@lists.wikimedia.org > *Subject:* Re:

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Recruiting gamers to edit Wikimedia

2013-07-07 Thread Han-Teng Liao
Will this move (inviting gamers to contribute to Wikipedia in "gamified" interfaces) further skew the gender demographics of Wikipedia contributors? Is there any alternative that provide customized interfaces that are more inviting to existing gender-balanced or even female-dominant sub-cultural g

[Wiki-research-l] Any research on Wikimedia's Protest Against SOPA/Italian Government? Taiwanese need such research now.

2013-05-27 Thread Han-Teng Liao
eferably here in this mailing list, and I hope it is okay purpose here.) Much appreciated. Best, han-teng liao ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

Re: [Wiki-research-l] any research on Wikipedia images?

2013-04-29 Thread Han-Teng Liao
also share your research questions on Wikimedia Commons. Best, han-teng liao On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Heather Ford wrote: > Does anyone know of research on images on Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons? > > Thanks in advance! > > Best, > heather. > > Heather Fo

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Is Wikipedia a Relevant Model for E-Learning?

2013-04-27 Thread Han-Teng Liao
to search for some literature form (Library and) Information Science, or even enlightenment history to make a case of "popular or general scientific community" instead of your phrase of pseudo-scientific community. Do not worry so much about the critical reviews or comments. Sometime

Re: [Wiki-research-l] case study with statistics: libraries & archives should share on Wikipedia

2013-03-17 Thread Han-Teng Liao
ources (of GLAM kind) in Wikipedia and other Wiki- projects. It is a conversation need to be had. Best, han-teng liao<http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hanteng#.E7.A0.94.E7.A9.B6.E9.81.B8.E5.9C.96> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Jodi Schneider wrote: > Your concerns are well-placed, Laura --

Re: [Wiki-research-l] advice on Wikipedia topics for WikiSym 2013

2012-11-24 Thread Han-Teng Liao
conduct ethnography work on various human efforts trying to use various tools of "big data" to (mis-)read/use/exploit Wikipedia differently. Best, han-teng liao On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Heather Ford wrote: > Mark Graham and I are co-chairs of the Wikipedia Track at next y

Re: [Wiki-research-l] # of searches where WP is the first hit?

2012-11-15 Thread Han-Teng Liao
es such as Baidu and Yandex or Naver..... Best, han-teng liao On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 1:11 AM, phoebe ayers wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Taha Yasseri wrote: >> Hi Asaf, >> Back to your original question, >> Isn't "google rank" a user dependent par

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Open-Access journals for papers about wikis

2012-09-17 Thread Han-Teng Liao
e SSCI with pretty performance numbers. Best, han-teng liao On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Ward Cunningham wrote: > On Sep 14, 2012, at 11:09 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > > People should be able to publish their work as quickly as they like in a > professional way, especially in field

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Access2research petition

2012-05-22 Thread Han-Teng Liao
Cannot resist the comedic irony I just think of. "Tear down this pay wall, or otherwise I will buy a cheap access acount from Taobao!" On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Benj. Mako Hill wrote: > > > that's a bad idea--it will destroy the financial base of thousands > > of journals and throw the

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Access2research petition = bad idea

2012-05-21 Thread Han-Teng Liao
abase called CNKI. Just give you one example of this as below: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=9171367599 Taobao is the equivalent of ebay in China. Best, han-teng liao On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Juliana Bastos wrote: > Piotr's evaluation is very much in tone with what happens in

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Access2research petition = bad idea

2012-05-21 Thread Han-Teng Liao
sorry a typo here: (in the first paragraph) adopting "non-"free versus open access On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Han-Teng Liao wrote: > Dear Richard, > >I am not sure the difference lies in the different viewpoints of > editors and scholars on one side, and taxpay

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Access2research petition = bad idea

2012-05-21 Thread Han-Teng Liao
rchers should oppose this idea here in this mailing list, given the some of the obvious positions they have on open content licenses? Best, han-teng liao On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Richard Jensen wrote: > Sorry Dario, you need to look at it from the editors' and scholarls point &

Re: [Wiki-research-l] WikiPapers has now over 1,000 publications

2012-05-01 Thread Han-Teng Liao
Hello all, I have also found that the publication rate of Wiki-related thesis, written in Chinese language, also seem to be peaked around the same time. See the last two graphs here: http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/hanteng/2012/02/28/growth-of-academic-interest-in-wikipedia-from-major-chinese-spea

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Permission to use Wikipedia's (or any sister project's) screenshots in academic papers or books

2012-02-21 Thread Han-Teng Liao
your experience as I am more curious about other researchers' practice now. Do you ask for permission? Do you simply remove the logo? Do you just assume that the US fair use provision works for you? Best, han-teng liao ___ Wiki-research-l mailing

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fact Check/事实查证: Did Ward Cunningham say this: "Starting from Wiki, the U.S. leadership position in Internet will be gradually overtaken by China"

2012-02-21 Thread Han-Teng Liao
t 1,500 search results from Yahoo! China. Best, han-teng liao ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Google ngrams

2010-12-17 Thread Han-Teng Liao (OII)
Very nice! It is even more interesting to compare this with the British one: It seems to me that British has not yet give up the concept of freedom for the sake of security yet! I have also tried with the Chinese characters of freedom vs security as below: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?con

Re: [Wiki-research-l] A small Commons research project

2009-01-13 Thread Han-Teng Liao (OII)
'properly describing an image will always be time consuming.' I totally agree. Still, can we have some games for Wikipedians to play so that we can 'tag' photos with different terms in different languages and enjoy some relaxing moment? I stumble on the idea from the clip: from 10:20 on

Re: [Wiki-research-l] "Regular contributor"

2008-10-22 Thread Han-Teng Liao (OII)
are very important, but secondary. They would not "exist" if > speakers of the language had not created content etc. One cannot do > interwiki linking and anti-vandalism if there is no WP or no article. > > Ziko > > > 2008/10/22 Han-Teng Liao (OII) <[EM

Re: [Wiki-research-l] "Regular contributor"

2008-10-22 Thread Han-Teng Liao (OII)
Put the philosophical questions aside, "analytical" categories (rather than social categories) should be linked to your research questions.  Analytical categories should thus not be universal in this sense, but rather are tied back to your research questions. I guess it is better to say, "I de

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikimedia access data

2008-09-18 Thread Han-Teng Liao (OII)
Dear Erik,    Is there anywhere that I can manage the access data to Chinese Wikipedia more easily?  I am trying to visualize how Chinese Wikipedia is being accessed before and after the Olympics/block/unblock.  It seems according to the current published wikistats, I have to do some painful '

Re: [Wiki-research-l] About Wikipedia projects

2008-09-16 Thread Han-Teng Liao (OII)
Thank you all for the links! May I add something about the research agenda set by the foundation. I guess that's the key to get some research funding from the foundation. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Research_Goals Piotr Konieczny wrote: > Han-Teng Liao (OI

Re: [Wiki-research-l] About Wikipedia projects

2008-09-15 Thread Han-Teng Liao (OII)
Hello, The 'Research' page on the Meta is the first place to go. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research I am looking forward to using Zotero for future collaboration. Even now we can start using Zotero and share the references easily by exporting the individual's local reference databas

[Wiki-research-l] Looking for WikiSym 2008 who would like to share a three or four bed accommodation

2008-07-23 Thread Han-Teng Liao (OII)
Dear Wiki researchers who are participating in the WikiSym 2008,    I am looking for some roommates for my stay in the WikiSym 2008 at Porto.  The below link provides a budget option (EURO 16.50 or 13.75 per person) which I believe has a better location than the Youth Hostel mentioned in the

Re: [Wiki-research-l] thesis: automatically building a multilingual thesaurus from wikipedia

2008-05-30 Thread Han-Teng Liao (OII)
Dear Mr. Kinzler,   Could you give me an indication if your code is ready for other languages as well? I am asking particularly about the Unicode processing because I am really interested in trying it out in East Asian context (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Best regards, -- Liao,Han-T

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Fwd: Fwd: RfC: Wikimedia Foundation Research Goals]

2008-04-29 Thread Han-Teng Liao (OII)
Dear Ms. Sue Gardner,     I am very interested since my DPhil  project is on Chinese Wikipedia.  Could you help by suggesting how I could initiate any conversations? -- Liao,Han-Teng DPhil student at the OII(web) needs you(blog) Sue Gardner wrote: Erik & I had a good meeting last wee

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Dissertation: In Good Faith

2008-04-02 Thread Han-Teng Liao (OII)
Congrats. I hope I can finish mine on Chinese Wikipedia within two years. May I ask is your ethnographic research mainly about English version of Wikipedia? Joseph Reagle wrote: > Hello everyone, I thought some folks might be interested in: > > [[http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/culture/wikip