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

2017-02-21 Thread aaron shaw
Ofer Arazy, Felipe Ortega, and Oded Nov have looked at career paths among Wikipedians . Also, Judd Antin, Coye Cheshire, and Nov have looked at how new Wikipedians select into specific roles

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Grant Proposal: Request for Feedback

2015-04-12 Thread aaron shaw
Greeting Christina! Thanks for sharing this and notifying us on the list. Overall, I am very supportive of additional attempts to do more rigorous survey research on Wikipedians. Some questions that I think you could try to address in the proposal: - *Sampling*: You mention that you plan to

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Technical][Request for Comment] A new format for the pageview dumps

2015-03-19 Thread aaron shaw
Adding to Giovanni's points (all of which I agree with 100%): - This would be awesome! The pageviews are a super useful for many of us and cleaning them up a bit would save a lot of redundant work for many of us down the road. - If you don't have to collapse page views incoming from mobile and

[Wiki-research-l] Deadline approaching! OpenSym 2015

2015-03-17 Thread aaron shaw
. For detailed topics and the research track committee please see http://wp.me/Pezfy-J7. - Wikipedia and related projects research, chaired by Claudia Müller-Birn of Freie Universität Berlin and Aaron Shaw of Northwestern University. This track addresses research specifically on Wikipedia and associated

Re: [Wiki-research-l] a cautious note on gender stats Re: Fwd: [Gendergap] Wikipedia readers

2015-02-16 Thread aaron shaw
Hi all! Thanks, Jeremy Dariusz for following up. On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Dariusz Jemielniak dar...@alk.edu.pl wrote: As far as I recall, they did a follow-up on this topic, and maybe a publication coming up? Sadly, no follow ups at the moment. If we want to have a more precise