[Wiki-research-l] Re: Launch of the Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto: June 17, online event

This sounds interesting. I’m into the public service internet but not much of a signer-upper. This is a matter of internet hygiene that I have found works. Is there any way to get a peek at what people might be signing before the event? Thanks and best regards — Ward > On Jun 8, 2021, at 4:17

[Wiki-research-l] Re: PC Magazine article about social epistemology and Wikipedia

Ouch. The site wouldn’t let me read it. Can you share a summary? > On Jun 3, 2021, at 10:22 AM, Bruckman, Amy S wrote: > > I thought you all might appreciate my attempt at explaining social > epistemology and why Wikipedia is a model for a successful online site to PC > Magazine.  >

Re: [Wiki-research-l] What percentage of digital assistants cite Wikipedia?

> On Aug 11, 2017, at 4:02 PM, Stella Yu wrote: > > Which of the digital assistants (Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, > Cortana) source/cite Wikipedia? I would assume that each of these device operators would have detailed analytics regarding the degree that they reuse

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Finding the number of links between two wikipedia pages

I've built and open sourced technology that can extract these sorts of unplanned features from dumps. The system would be primed with specific dumps and trained for the feature of interest. This might take a day. Then a full run would take an hour to produce a csv file of features for

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

I am reminded of B.J.Fogg's notion of triggers as one of three requisites for behavior. The other two are motivation and ability. http://www.behaviormodel.org/ This is probably old news on this list as he has been explaining his work for a long time now. Still, any initiative should be

Re: [Wiki-research-l] WMF Open Access Policy and Independent Researchers

As a casual reader of this list would it be foolish of me to suggest that you seek funding from a variety of sources and publish the results in a variety of journals? Your methodological skills and depth of personal insight would carry over between academic reality and the open ideal, no? Best

Re: [Wiki-research-l] The definition of a wiki

Try this: http://c2.com/doc/etymology.html On Feb 21, 2015, at 6:12 AM, Ziko van Dijk zvand...@gmail.com wrote: Dear colleagues, I am looking for a scientific definition of a wiki, and several works that actually deal a lot about wikis have let me down. Do you know where to look, or is

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Providing on Wikipedia the information necessary to complete the cycle of primary education in the languages used by the different education systems (research project Wikipedia P

Iolanda -- Can you help me understand what is meant by curriculum-based questions? You use the phrase many times and each time it sounds like what I would call teaching to the test. I appreciate that the proposal goes on to answer many worries from an educator's perspective. I suspect there are

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Inventory of articles with video?

On Jan 22, 2013, at 8:00 AM, Andrew Lih wrote: Thanks Ward -- very useful! It would be interesting to run it again on a recent dump and to find whether certain categories are getting better video treatment, though the set Will do. I wonder if we could get some students to check my results

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Inventory of articles with video?

played like in Australia, especially since Australian games were not televised in France.) On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Ward Cunningham w...@c2.com wrote: On Jan 22, 2013, at 8:00 AM, Andrew Lih wrote: Thanks Ward -- very useful! It would be interesting to run it again on a recent dump

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Inventory of articles with video?

On Jan 22, 2013, at 9:54 AM, Laura Hale wrote: I tend to create project by project lists so I can do comparisons as I'm less interested in the actual total volume, and more interested in seeing how things differ from one group to another. Me too. Curiosity. On this list a few months ago

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editor retention and meetups?

I agree with Kerry that computer text offers a narrow pipe through which we can barely come to know and trust other. That is why in developing Extreme Programming (a kind of Agile) we asked that the whole team, including clients and management, meet daily in person, preferably working together

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Unaffiliated researchers

I always liked Kent Beck's patterns for a successful oopsla submission, especially one startling sentence: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/papers/HowToGetaPaperAcceptedToOOPSLA/HowToGetAPaperAcceptedToOOPSLA.htm This was from a time that oopsla was big and important. It was also a conference

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki Research Journal?

I wonder if a better place to innovate might be in the conduct of research, rather than the reporting, review and publication of research? While wiki speeds collaboration within a community, the research literature favors long-lasting contributions outside the community. Wiki or wiki-like

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

. On Sep 16, 2012, at 7:35 AM, Joe Corneli wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Ward Cunningham w...@c2.com wrote: Yup. I'm thinking the same things. Now, if all of these were the norm, how would work be different? Some similar ideas discussed in this paper, to which I contributed

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

on the funding agencies desire to not extinguish a generation. We're at the end of business as usual. Its a good time to think big, especially if big doesn't cost too much. Thanks and best regards. -- Ward On Sep 16, 2012, at 2:33 PM, Joe Corneli wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Ward

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

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 fields that change rapidly and need to benefit from collaborating with one another. Hmm. What is the quickest way that we would ever

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

, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Ward Cunningham w...@c2.com 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 fields that change rapidly and need to benefit from collaborating with one another

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

. But I will cheer anyone daring enough to step out of old habits and design a future that includes what we've learned about the internet in the last decade or two. On Sep 14, 2012, at 11:59 AM, Ward Cunningham wrote: Yup. I'm thinking the same things. Now, if all of these were the norm, how would

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia's response to 2012 Aurora shooting

I will add coordinating to these other two distinctions I often make. * coordinating -- avoiding interference with independent goals * cooperating -- aligning goals, perhaps through promises or contracts * collaborating -- advancing other's goals, selflessly or based on trust I've noticed that

Re: [Wiki-research-l] real scholarship is expensive

I've seen professional scholarship go off track. I wrote wiki to give a voice to programmers who were struggling under the bad advice offered by academic computer science and software engineering. That's worked pretty well for us, no thanks to ACM or IEEE. From this perspective, everything

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

pages: perl -n -e 'print if s/^en (.*?) \d+ (\d{4,})$/a href=http:\/\/ en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/$1$1\/a $2\/br/' pagecounts-20080220-16 xx.html Best regards. -- Ward __ Ward Cunningham 503-432-5682 On Feb 18, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: For those of you who

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Exploring the Feasibility of Automatically Rating Online Article Quality

Interesting paper. I am building a model of wiki community behavior that talks in terms such as number of reads and writes under various circumstances. My model hypothesizes various mental states that are not so easily measured but might be possible to infer. I'm not far enough along to