[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Language Showcase, May 2020

This might be of interest to some Research and Education folks too. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message - From: Amir E. Aharoni Date: Mon, May 25, 2020 at 7:22 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Language Showcase, May 2020 To: wikimedia-l Hello, Th

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [libraries] CFP. Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project

Forwarding. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message - From: Bridges, Laurie Date: Fri, May 8, 2020 at 9:10 AM Subject: [libraries] CFP. Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project To: librar...@lists.wikimedia.org Call for Chapter Prop

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Talk-us] OSM Foundation’s Call for Microgrant Applications

Forwarding. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message - From: Clifford Snow Date: Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 8:06 PM Subject: [Talk-us] OSM Foundation’s Call for Microgrant Applications To: talk-us In case you missed this announcement, I'm reposting it

Re: [Wiki-research-l] NEEDS COMMENT ASAP: Wikimedia Project Grant Proposal to address BIAS!

Stuart, As far as I know, grant applicants for WMF grants have never been required to comment or share information regarding grant proposals other than their own. I think that in the past, WMF staff or grant review committee members have solicited feedback for groups of grants. I think that disc

[Wiki-research-l] In the press: Wikipedia, WikiProject Medicine, and misinformation

FYI: *https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wikipedia-coronavirus *https://www.wired.com/story/how-wikipedia-prevents-spread-coronavirus-misinformation/ Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@list

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] Wiki Workshop 2020 Announcement and Call for Papers

Hi Leila, Thank you for the updates. I have one small question. Will the sessions which are available on Zoom also be recorded for later viewing? On occasion, I watch or share presentations after they have occurred. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 9:43

Re: [Wiki-research-l] WMF Project Grant - CCCC Wikipedia Initiative

Hello Melanie, Thank you for sharing this here. Good luck with your proposal. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 4:05 PM Melanie Kill wrote: > > Hi all, > > I’m writing to ask for feedback and endorsements on a WMF project grant > proposal focused on dev

Re: [Wiki-research-l] NEEDS COMMENT ASAP: Wikimedia Project Grant Proposal to address BIAS!

For what it's worth, I'm completely fine with people requesting feedback on research-related grant proposals to WMF on Research-l, including individual proposals. My only objection here is to the use of all caps. I'm speaking only for myself and others may have different opinions. Thanks, Pine (

Re: [Wiki-research-l] NEEDS COMMENT ASAP: Wikimedia Project Grant Proposal to address BIAS!

Hello, I have a request, and this is only from my personal perspective and not anything official. Please do not use all caps like this on Wikimedia mailing lists. It comes across as SHOUTING, and what is important or urgent for one person may not be important or urgent for the dozens, hundreds, or

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Modelling user behaviour on Wikipedia

Hi Kiril, I'd like to ask for further clarification on a couple of points. Some people may be risk averse to performing certain actions, such as moving pages, because they don't know what the rules are regarding those actions, but page moves aren't necessarily harmful for the environment. Does yo

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia Technical Talks] Data and Decision Science at Wikimedia with Kate Zimmerman, 26 February 2020 @ 6PM UTC

Hello colleagues, I'm forwarding this announcement to additional email lists. Most public WMF meetings that are livestreamed on Youtube remain available for replay after the meeting, and I'm guessing that this one will be also. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forw

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Modelling user behaviour on Wikipedia

Hi Kiril, Thank you for sharing your proposal. I am concerned about the possibility of Wikipedia being used as a laboratory for experiments that consume volunteers' time and/or personal data, and don't benefit Wikipedia or its participants. Does your research benefit the community, and if so, how

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] Announcement - Mediawiki History Dumps

is easily accessible to all contributors to Wikimedia sites. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 12:17 AM Pine W wrote: > > Hi Joseph, > > Thanks for this announcement. > > I am looking for license information regarding the dumps, and I

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] Announcement - Mediawiki History Dumps

Hi Joseph, Thanks for this announcement. I am looking for license information regarding the dumps, and I'm not finding it in the pages that you linked at [1] or [2]. The license that applies to text on Wikimedia sites is often CC-BY-SA 3.0, and the WMF Terms of Use at https://foundation.wikimedia

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [OSM-talk] W3C Maps on the Web workshop

Forwarding. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message - From: Rushforth, Peter (NRCan/RNCan) Date: Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 9:46 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] W3C Maps on the Web workshop To: t...@openstreetmap.org Dear Open Street Map community, I apolo

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikidata] New Wikimedia dataset for NLP research

Forwarding. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message - From: Gabriel Altay Date: Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 6:57 PM Subject: [Wikidata] New Wikimedia dataset for NLP research To: Hello Wikidata folks, I would like to bring your attention to an open so

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikidata] Knowledge Graph Conference 2020 - Workshops and Tutorials Announcement

Forwarding. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message - From: Violeta Ilik Date: Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 1:01 PM Subject: [Wikidata] Knowledge Graph Conference 2020 - Workshops and Tutorials Announcement To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project.

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] PyCon Financial Assistance and Development Sprints Info

Forwarding. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message - From: Brooke Storm Date: Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 1:03 AM Subject: [Wikitech-l] PyCon Financial Assistance and Development Sprints Info To: , Foundation Optional < foundation-optio...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Power law and contributions:

Hi Jan, I think that we may have given you a lot more than you had in mind when you asked your question. I'm aware that you were thinking of "power law" in a way that can be very different than "power dynamics", but I have the latter more on my mind, partially because of recent discussions on Wiki

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Power law and contributions:

Hi Jan, There are many issues involved in power dynamics. I would prefer to look at this issue from a wide angle perspective. How do you define "community health"? Are the people who have power competent and focused on public service, are they incompetent and selfish, or some other combination o

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Analytics] Introducing statistics for media files

Also forwarding to Research-l and Wikitech-l. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message - From: Francisco Dans Date: Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 5:52 PM Subject: [Analytics] Introducing statistics for media files To: A mailing list for the Analytics Team a

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [AI] The WebConf (WWW 2020) Call for Papers (Demo Track)

Forwarding an announcement. For what it's worth, WMF is listed as a sponsor of the 2019 conference, and multiple conference tracks appear to be relevant to Wikiverse activities. However, announcements which include lofty adjectives such as "visionary" often give me pause due to the risk of over-pro

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikidata] Call for Contributions to WikiCite Satellite Cologne 2020

Forwarding. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message - From: Jakob Voß Date: Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 1:14 PM Subject: [Wikidata] Call for Contributions to WikiCite Satellite Cologne 2020 To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project Dear Wikidata-Com

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikidata] Useful resources for Scholia

This looks interesting. Thanks for sharing. I'm cross-posting this to Research-l. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 10:10 PM Houcemeddine A. Turki < turkiabdelwa...@hotmail.fr> wrote: > Dear all, > I thank you for your efforts. I invite you to use several

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Asking for your input on Community Values to guide ORES development

Thank you very much for sharing that. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikidata] Scaling Wikidata Query Service

Forwarding in case this is of interest. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message - From: Guillaume Lederrey Date: Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 7:33 PM Subject: [Wikidata] Scaling Wikidata Query Service To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. Hello

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [OpenAccess] Fwd: Job Posting: Opportunity at the NIH Library: Data Services Informationist

Forwarding a job announcement that may be of interest to some list subscribers. The announced pay range is $69,581 to $128,920 per year. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message - From: Federico Leva (Nemo) Date: Fri, May 24, 2019 at 9:55 PM Subjec

[Wiki-research-l] Research showcase for May

Hello Research-l, Does anyone know whether there will be a Wikimedia Research Showcase this month? I think that these are usually scheduled for 3rd Wednesdays. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-rese

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Sampling new editors in English Wikipedia

Hi Haifeng, Some users will state on user pages that an account is an alternate account. However, this practice is not followed by everyone, and those who do follow this practice aren't required to so in a uniform way. Alternate accounts which are not labeled as such, and which are used for illeg

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Sampling new editors in English Wikipedia

Leila, can we discuss this off list? Thanks, Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 9:29 PM Leila Zia wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 1:56 PM Pine W wrote: > > > > Hi Leila, I believe that I asked for more information regarding Hei

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Sampling new editors in English Wikipedia

f > > answering their question, my recommendation would be to start the > > conversation with: "can you tell us more about your research?" kind of > > question. I find the current way of communication very speculative, > > and that is not good for making a vibrant

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Sampling new editors in English Wikipedia

Hi, can you expand on what you mean by "sample"? If you're referring to analyzing users' edit histories then that should be fine. However, if you're planning to send surveys or messages to them, sending them barnstars, or otherwise manipulating their on-wiki experience, that would be problematic.

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] How diverse are your readers?

Forwarding. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message - From: Leila Zia Date: Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 9:13 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] How diverse are your readers? To: Wikimedia Mailing List Hi all, As I mentioned in an earlier thread [1], we will be

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [AI] Extended call for Workshops/Tutorials at CAIP 2019 in Salerno, Italy

Forwarding to additional lists. I believe that in the past there has been consideration of using automated image recognition to categorize images on Commons. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message - From: caip2...@unisa.it Date: Tue, Mar 5, 2019

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Project Grants program will fund 20 community-led projects

Forwarding in case people are interested in seeing what was funded. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message - From: Chris "Jethro" Schilling Date: Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 9:06 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Project Grants program will fund 20 community-led

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia digital common and states

Hi, Chapters and other local groups sometimes have informal or formal relationships with national government agencies. WMF, as far as I know, is currently involved in a lawsuit against the US Government but simultaneously has informal friendly relations with the US National Archives. WMF also has

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

Forwarding. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message - From: Leila Zia Date: Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 10:35 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language To: Wikimedia Mailing List Hi all, Update time. Given that this is a lo

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] Farewell, Erik!

Thanks for your work, Erik. I hope that we will see you in the future. This is the first time that I can recall hearing about a person retiring from WMF. Volunteer retirements and semi-retirements happen regularly, and the reasons that I hear for those retirements are often sad. It's nice to hear

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikidata] Fully funded PhD positions at TU Dresden

Forwarding. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message - From: Markus Kroetzsch Date: Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 3:54 PM Subject: [Wikidata] Fully funded PhD positions at TU Dresden To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. Dear Wikidatans, We are c

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Help us understand ORES and make good tradeoffs

Hi Bowen, after reading your project proposal I have a few questions and concerns. You mention a perceived tension between protecting newcomers and protecting the quality of content. I am wondering whether that is a false dichotomy. In my experience, test edits and blatant vandalism usually look d

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikidata] Wikidata Data Quality Workshop

Forwarding to Research-l in case this is of interest to others. -- Forwarded message - From: Mariam Farda Sarbas Date: Tue, Dec 4, 2018, 1:30 PM Subject: [Wikidata] Wikidata Data Quality Workshop To: Hello, We are organizing a workshop on Data Quality Management in Wikidata

Re: [Wiki-research-l] mailing list

Hello, were you intending to subscribe or unsubscribe? There is no content to your message aside from the signature block. :) Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 3:44 PM POGAKU, RAVINDRA wrote: > > > Dr. Ravindra Pogaku > Research Professor of Chemical Eng

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] November 30 deadline for new Project Grant proposals

Cross-posting. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message - From: Chris "Jethro" Schilling Date: Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 3:33 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] November 30 deadline for new Project Grant proposals To: Wikimedia Mailing List Hi folks, The

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Analytics] Community health metrics kit: Input needed!

Forwarding a request for input. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message - From: Joe Sutherland Date: Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 9:29 PM Subject: [Analytics] Community health metrics kit: Input needed! To: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikidata] Passing on praise/ISWC trip report

Forwarding some good news. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message - From: Markus Kroetzsch Date: Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 12:30 AM Subject: [Wikidata] Passing on praise/ISWC trip report To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. Dear all, I am

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Results from 2018 global Wikimedia survey are published!

Those all sound like good suggestions. I have flagged this entire conversation for me to review if and when I get funding for continuing work on my project. I hope that the WMF Growth team is also aware of this conversation. By the way, Edward, if you're still reading this, thanks for letting us h

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Results from 2018 global Wikimedia survey are published!

communicated only orally in a culture where written communications are rare or nonexistent. I don't know how to deal with that problem, but I do think that it's a problem. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 6:06 AM Pine W wrote: > WSC, > &g

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Results from 2018 global Wikimedia survey are published!

WSC, I think that we'd need to be very careful about lowering the bar for BLPs on ENWP, because there are innumerable non-notable professionals who seem to pay people to add their biographies (and/or small organizations) to Wikipedia, and I am more happy to keep them out of the world's encyclopedi

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Results from 2018 global Wikimedia survey are published!

Kerry, This discussion about reverts, combined with my recent experience on ENWP, makes me wonder if there's a way to make reverts feel less hostile on average. Do you have any ideas about how to do that? Thanks, Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Results from 2018 global Wikimedia survey are published!

t; > suggest specific types of undesirable user behaviours that can really > only > > be seen as a "big picture". > > > > Given this is the research mailing list, I guess we should we talking > > about ways research can help with this problem. > >

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Results from 2018 global Wikimedia survey are published!

edit, then we could use machine learning to detect patterns that > suggest specific types of undesirable user behaviours that can really only > be seen as a "big picture". > > Given this is the research mailing list, I guess we should we talking > about ways researc

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Results from 2018 global Wikimedia survey are published!

I'm appreciative that we're having this conversation - not in the sense that I'm happy with the status quo, but I'm glad that some of us are continuing to work on our persistent difficulties with contributor retention, civility, and diversity. I've spent several hours on ENWP recently, and I've be

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Results from 2018 global Wikimedia survey are published!

I'm going to respond to Kerry and Jonathan in two parts of one email. -- Hi Kerry, I did not say that transparency should be a free-for-all, and it's important to keep in mind that transparency from my perspective is intended to ensure due process for everyone involved. That includes ensuring tha

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Research about discretionary sanctions on ENWP

Done: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Research_on_ENWP_Discretionary_Sanctions Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 8:25 PM Sydney Poore wrote: > From: Sydney Poore > To: Pine W > Cc: wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Bcc:

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Results from 2018 global Wikimedia survey are published!

that en.WP's culture will change of > its own accord. > > However, there is one easy win for diversity at WMF. Start diversifying > the WMF livestream times. Every WMF livestream is usually between 2-4am > here in Australia so I'd like to see a bit of support for the Globa

[Wiki-research-l] Research about discretionary sanctions on ENWP

Hello colleagues, There is currently a small amount of discussion happening on an ENWP arbitration page regarding what ENWP calls "discretionary sanctions

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Results from 2018 global Wikimedia survey arepublished!

I apologize for my continued confusion about what was written on which mailing list. I can mostly blame Gmail for not handling the bcc's like I think that it should. I referred to an email from 80hnhtv4agou in my previous post to Research-l, but that person sent their email to Wikitech-l. I am forw

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Results from 2018 global Wikimedia survey are published!

(and perhaps everyone on this list) to reflect on: what > numbers are most concerning for you related to diversity? What could you do > to improve diversity on the projects? And decide how you would like to take > action. > > Hope this helps! > Edward > > > On Fri, Sep 1

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Results from 2018 global Wikimedia survey are published!

Hi Edward, Thanks for this publication. This research is likely to be of interest to the WikimediaAnnounce-l (and by extension, Wikimedia-l) and Wikitech-l subscribers, so I suggest that you cross-post this publication to those lists. After reading this report, I have a question which may be chal

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

Cross-posting to Research-l. Thank you Leila. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message - From: Leila Zia Date: Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 12:43 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language To: Wikimedia Mailing List Hi all, Up

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Change tag reading from the new column in the beta cluster

Forwarding to Analytics and Research in case this is of interest. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message - From: Amir Sarabadani Date: Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 9:19 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Change tag reading from the new column in the beta cluster To

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikidata] Wikidata SPARQL Query Log Analysis

Thanks, Greg. I'm forwarding to the Wiki Medicine list and to Research-l. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message - From: Greg S Date: Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 5:26 PM Subject: [Wikidata] Wikidata SPARQL Query Log Analysis To: Hey all, I've done a l

[Wiki-research-l] Design research presentation in the August WMF/Wikimedia Activities meeting

Hello Research, Mobile, and Design colleagues, In case other people are interested who didn't attend the August Wikimedia Activities Meeting, there was a design research presentation in the meeting regarding personas of mobile Wikimedia users: https://youtu.be/yZPZmRQnkXU On a related note, I wou

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] huwiki, arwiki to be treated as 'big wikis' and run parallel jobs

More changes are coming for dumps, this time for Hungarian Wikipedia (approximately 436,000 articles) and Arabic Wikipedia.(approximately 595,000 articles). Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message - From: Ariel Glenn WMF Date: Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Research with under-resourced Wikipedia community members

Hi Lucie, Your project sounds interesting. Are you coordinating your work with Marshall Miller and WMF's renewed efforts to increase the size of the population of contributors on mid-sized Wikipedias? See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth. The initial focus of WMF will be on Czech and Korean W

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] MultiContent Revisions and changes to the XML dumps

Forwarding in case this is of interest to people on the Analytics or Research lists who don't subscribe to Wikitech-l or Xmldatadumps-l. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message -- From: Ariel Glenn WMF Date: Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 2:40 PM Subject: [Wi

[Wiki-research-l] "State of Wikimedia Research" presentation at Wikimania 2018

In case people are interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE2UQu3r6vE The topics covered include: * Media and images * Talk page debates * Comparisons of Wikipedia language editions * Who is not participating? * Wikipedia as a source of data Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] hewiki dump to be added to 'big wikis' and run with multiple processes

Forwarding in case this is of interest to anyone on the Analytics or Research lists who doesn't subscribe to Wikitech-l or Xmldatadumps-l. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message -- From: Ariel Glenn WMF Date: Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 5:53 AM Subject:

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Elicit New Editor Interest

Interest Hi Pine, On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 8:32 PM Pine W wrote: > > Hi Leila, > > This looks interesting. I have a few questions. > > 1. Why are users being asked for their email addresses? This creates > privacy concerns regarding the handling of PII. I think that using

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Building tools, services and datasets that respect deleted and suppressed revisions

sday. > Give us a little bit of time to figure this out, I know it's priority > for Patrick et al. There is no immediate pointer that we can think of > and it needs some iterations on our end. > > Thanks, > Leila > > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 8:21 PM Pine W wrote:

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Elicit New Editor Interest

Hi Leila, This looks interesting. I have a few questions. 1. Why are users being asked for their email addresses? This creates privacy concerns regarding the handling of PII. I think that using usernames would be preferable. 2. I'm unclear on whether the plan is to invite newbies to contact vete

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Building tools, services and datasets that respect deleted and suppressed revisions

Hi Research-l, I'm bumping this question because apparently no one has answered yet, and I think that it's a good question that should get an answer. I would like for third-party researchers who are trying to align their work with Wikimedia policies and practices in their research to get the suppor

[Wiki-research-l] Presentation on UX design, mental models, and behavioral vs. survey data

I thought that this video, published in May 2018, was somewhat interesting and I am sharing it in case others are also interested. The presenter uses a change of design of Wikipedia's front page search box from 2010 (see https://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/06/15/usability-why-did-we-move-the-search-box

[Wiki-research-l] Reader use of Wikipedia and Commons categories

Hi Research-l, My impression is that volunteers on Commons and ENWP spend a lot of time on categorization. I have seen references to analyses of how categorization is done,  but I can't recall seeing an analysis of how much use readers make of categories on Commons and ENWP. My guess is that re

Re: [Wiki-research-l] trip report: Wiki Indaba 2018 [partial]

I have a suggestion. Both WMF and the community are operating under resource constraints, and I think that the question of whether and how WMF should resource the support of additional projects versus current projects is a good one to have in the context of the strategy discussion. Rather than try

[Wiki-research-l] Proportions of new Wikimedia users by program source

Hi Research-l folks, Is there a chart that shows the proportions of new users that register on Wikimedia in association with individual campaigns like Wiki Loves Monuments, chapter GLAM activities, education programs, etc? I am particularly interested in knowing what percentage of new users are l

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [OSM-talk] OSM science mailing list

Forwarding. Pine -- Forwarded message -- From: joost schouppe Date: Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 2:35 AM Subject: [OSM-talk] OSM science mailing list To: OpenStreetMap Belgium ,

[Wiki-research-l] Wikiscan statistics tool for Wikimedia projects

Wikiscan is an interesting tool for statistics fans. I suggest briefly reading this IEG page , then playing with the tool on https://wikiscan.org/ Pine ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC

am/handle/2142/ > 16461/Horizon%20March%202010%20(Haklay%20and%20Budhahtoki).pdf > > Thanks, > Andrew > > > On Jul 26, 2017, at 5:06 PM, Pine W wrote: > > > > For what it's worth, I noted that when I tended the State of the Map USA > > conference last year,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Announcement] Voice and exit in a voluntary work environment

Jonathan, I didn't realize that there was another use for NEWT. (: It's a little old though, and it appears to be specific to English Wikipedia, and my personal feeling is that a need to disambiguate the editing interface from an old research project is the lesser evil as compared to an acronym tha

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Announcement] Voice and exit in a voluntary work environment

Hi Kerry, Thanks for the comments. I hope that Leila will respond. I have a few thoughts: 1. Have you tried the New WikiText Editor (NWTE, which I want to call NEWT so that it's easily pronounceable), particularly on talk pages? I think that new users will find it to be considerably easier to use

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC

For what it's worth, I noted that when I tended the State of the Map USA conference last year, there seemed to be a *higher* representation of women in the conference than there were at the WikiConference USA events that I've attended. I was surprised to hear the presenter say that OSM has 95%+ mal

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Announcement] Voice and exit in a voluntary work environment

This sounds like a great project. Forwarding. Pine On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Leila Zia wrote: > Hi all, > > With the start of the new fiscal year in Wikimedia Foundation on July > 1, the Research team has officially started the work on Program 12: > Growing contributor diversity. [1] H

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] [fellowship] Opportunity for people working on "open projects that support a healthy Internet."

Forwarding. Pine -- Forwarded message -- From: Melody Kramer Date: Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 2:26 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] [fellowship] Opportunity for people working on "open projects that support a healthy Internet." To: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi all, I wanted to pass

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Recognizing domain experts contribution to Wikipedia

ity > control template, the is now a standard linked-data mechanism for > researchers to identify themselves. I have no idea whether anyone is > looking at that though. > > Cheers > Stuart > > On Saturday, July 8, 2017, Pine W wrote: > > > Hi Alex, > > >

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Recognizing domain experts contribution to Wikipedia

Hi Alex, I believe that this is a subject of interest to the community. It would indeed be helpful to know the percentage of people with graduate-level academic qualifications who regularly make contributions on English Wikipedia and other language editions of Wikipedia. I'd suggest thinking abou

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Analytics] Dropping MoodBar extension tables from all wikis

+1 to Jonathan's comment. Pine On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Jonathan Morgan wrote: > I hate the idea of deleting research data. Esp. since the Moodbar data > contains insights into new editor motivations and pain points. > > Would it be possible to place historical research datasets like th

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

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 2:49 AM, Kerry Raymond wrote: > No right to be offended? To say to someone "you don't have the right to be > offended" seems pretty offensive in itself. It seems to imply that their > cultural norms are somehow inferior or unacceptable. > I'm not sure that I worded my com

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

Kerry, I think that I agree with you. Awhile back, my impression from English Wikipedia arbitration pages was that there is a relatively small number of users who stir up trouble repeatedly and are sometimes sanctioned but rarely blocked. I don't want to speak for the Arbitration Committee, and sin

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

I'm glad that work on detecting and addressing harassment are moving forward. At the same time, I'd appreciate getting a more precise understanding of how WMF is defining the word "harassment". There are legal definitions and dictionary definitions, but I don't think that there is One Definition t

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Design] Design in the Era of the Algorithm

Perhaps of interest. Pine -- Forwarded message -- From: Chris Koerner Date: Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 8:31 AM Subject: [Design] Design in the Era of the Algorithm To: des...@lists.wikimedia.org Josh Clark on design principles for addressing flaws in machine learning. (via waxy.org)

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Research into Requests for Comments and the closing process

Hi Amy, That sounds like a great topic for research. As an extension of your planned scope, I would encourage you to do some comparisons between ENWP's RfC process and those on other Wikimedia sites, as there are some noteworthy differences among sites, both among language variants of Wikipedia a

[Wiki-research-l] Video demos of upcoming changes to edit review / RC patrol

I'd like to highlight two videos (some people may have already seen these) that demo upcoming changes to edit review / RC patrol that take advantage of ORES. I feel that that the changes look promising, and I hope that RC patrollers, Teahouse hosts, newbie adopters, and others will find that the ch

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Essay about fake news, algorithms, social bots, and more

Agreed that what we're seeing are Internet-enabled implementations of old practices. I think that there has been a recent renewal of awareness of how effective these dark arts can be at generating revenue and perhaps affecting political systems. Over the years, a number of people and organizations

[Wiki-research-l] Essay about fake news, algorithms, social bots, and more

I'm finding it encouraging to see that a number of researchers and journalists are taking these problems seriously, trying to understand them, and trying to improve the situation. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/tech/misinformation-on-social-media-could-outfox-technical-solutions-for-now Pine __

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Project exploring automated classification of article importance

Hi Nettrom, A few resources from English Wikipedia regarding article importance as ranked by humans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Release_Version_Criteria#Priority_of_topic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

[Wiki-research-l] Reliability in the era of alternative facts and information warfare

A thought-provoking newspaper column about a University of Washington professor's troubling findings: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/uw-professor-the-information-war-is-real-and-were-losing-it/ Quoting briefly from the article: "Starbird is publishing her paper as a sort of war

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editors: research on transitions, learning over time, leaving

I like Jonathan's suggestion about logging edit conflicts and trying to figure out the correlation between edit conflicts and people leaving. Might also be worth looking into how reversions, deletion notifications, and giant warning templates also affect how likely people are to continue editing.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Retention of Wikimedians for the long term

Following up: Jana and I plan to have an off-list conversation in May about scheduling a public conversation for June or July. (: Pine On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Pine W wrote: > > Jana, would you be willing to have a conversation in June or July about > your research? I read

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Retention of Wikimedians for the long term

Jana, would you be willing to have a conversation in June or July about your research? I read it awhile ago and I've been pondering how to best apply it to ENWP. Perhaps we could have a Hangout meeting? I'd be glad to have the meeting be public, in a similar style to a Research office hour, because

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