Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia, Twitch, sexism, and algorithms

Hi Giovanni, Thanks for sharing. In the article, you mention the WMF's work with Detox -- we have a related program that you might also find interesting. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_health_initiative Best, -Toby On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 4:06 AM, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia < glciamp

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, Jun 22, 2017 at 5:31 PM

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

Hi Dan -- we are actually in touch with Detox as part of the Community Health initiative. They are doing their first quarterly check in this quarter so expect some updates then. Ping me offlist if you want more info. -Toby On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Dan Andreescu wrote: > I'm reflecting

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Feature Requests: Suggeted new features

Hi Aaron -- Thanks for your interest and suggestions! A bit late to the thread but I thought I'd point you at the WMF's annual plan[1]. The Foundation puts forward a proposal to the community in the March/April timeframe and after discussion it is approved by the board. This and the quarterly pl

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] Upcoming reboots of stat and Hadoop hosts due to Kernel upgrades

engineering is probably a better list -- I think hadoop is sufficiently mainstream now :) On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Dan Andreescu wrote: > + research > > (btw, if we cc analytics and research does that reach everyone using these > boxes? Like discovery, fundraising, etc? Basically, eve

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [WikimediaMobile] Mobile Wikipedia, Commons, Wikidata, and Pokémon

Hi Pine -- did you have any specific ideas? I spent some time in the gaming industry and am familiar with Ingress, the game that Pokeman Go is based on, as well as the theories behind mechanics/compulsion loops that mobile games use. I'll share one general thought -- the research-edit-publish loop

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikimedia Research's Goals for April - July 2016

Thanks Aaron - looks like an exciting quarter! Congrats on the ORES betas. -Toby On Wednesday, April 6, 2016, Aaron Halfaker wrote: > Hey folks! > > I'm happy to announce that the Wikimedia Research team's goals >

[Wiki-research-l] algorithm accountability

An interesting study as AI becomes more mainstream: http://towcenter.org/exposing-algorithms-nicar2016/ -Toby ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

Re: [Wiki-research-l] unique visitors

Hi Andrew, Phoebe -- here's what the Communication department here is comfortable with: Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation > receive hundreds of millions of unique visitors per month The numbers of unique devices for enwiki are far greater than 500mm. But of c

Re: [Wiki-research-l] unique visitors

exploration adds another dimension of understanding but clearly we need to balance complexity and effort with expressive value. -Toby [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 7:45 AM, phoebe ayers wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Tob

[Wiki-research-l] Ethical implication of humanitarian data use

It's in my to-be-read list but I thought that this would be interesting to this group: http://cis-india.org/papers/ebola-a-big-data-disaster -Toby ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/l

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] Python client for the new pageview API

I added these to a section in the API docs: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/AQS/Pageview_API -Toby On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Aaron Halfaker wrote: > Great work! I'm glad that someone picked this up in python too. The rate > at which new client libraries have been release

[Wiki-research-l] abuse and online game communities

Although this is probably less research-y than usual posts to this list but I thought the use of ML to analyze a community curated corpus of positive and negative online behavior was interesting: http://recode.net/2015/07/07/doing-something-about-the-impossible-problem-of-abuse-in-online-games/ -

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] [Offline-l] Fwd: Reasons you use the XML dumps or want to, but can't?

Thanks for doing that Andrew! On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Andrew Otto wrote: > I also added some Hadoop based used cases to that document. > > > https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team%2FBacklog%2FImprove_dumps&diff=1422073&oldid=1421455 > > > > On Feb 21,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editor sessions and related metrics

Awesome work! Can we distribute in the foundation? On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Oliver Keyes wrote: > > Hey all, > > Not sure if this would be interesting to researchers or community members, > but: you might remember a paper Stuart and Aaron did a while ago about > measuring edit sessions -

Re: [Wiki-research-l] How to track all the diffs in real time?

Hi Max -- let me ping the API folks. I don't think we researchers can make the final call on this. -Toby On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Maximilian Klein wrote: > > Hello Researchers, > > I've been playing with Recent Changes Stream Interface > rec

Re: [Wiki-research-l] StackExchange editor decline (serverfault)

Thanks indeed Nemo -- Anybody have any contacts there we could talk to? -Toby On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Jonathan Morgan wrote: > > *"We don’t want our best contributors feeling like the most important > contribution they can make is to find stuff to get rid of - and more > importantly, w