Re: [Wiki-research-l] Interesting Wikipedia studies

Thanks all for your great examples! Very helpful – and also interesting to follow. Best, *Eric Luth* Projektledare engagemang och påverkan | Project Manager, Involvement and Advocacy Wikimedia Sverige eric.l...@wikimedia.se +46 (0) 765 55 50 95 Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Interesting Wikipedia studies

Thanks for your reply, Jana. Very interesting results! Will be happy to share the final article when it is ready. Best *Eric Luth* Projektledare engagemang och påverkan | Project Manager, Involvement and Advocacy Wikimedia Sverige eric.l...@wikimedia.se +46 (0) 765 55 50 95 Stöd fri kunskap,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Interesting Wikipedia studies

A few more for consideration: Keegan et al.'s work on how editors collaborate around breaking news events (I expect this to get cited a lot in the next year or so, with increased interest in the role of Wikipedia in combating COVID

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Interesting Wikipedia studies

In Wikidata we have annotated 1873 items (articles, books, etc.) as about Wikipedia. Some of them are listed in Scholia: https://scholia.toolforge.org/topic/Q52 Halfaker et al's "2013" paper, as mentioned, I would also mention. Apart from that there is the famous Nature editorial article

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Interesting Wikipedia studies

Re. non-English Wikipedia and editor retention: I ran a large-scale field experiment in and with the community of Swiss editors. We show that purely symbolic awards that provide social recognition increase newcomer retention by 20%, and the effect persists for over a year after initial award

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Interesting Wikipedia studies

Hello, I love the study about Wikipedia articles in different language versions, and the consequences for tourism in Spain accordlingly. The researchers improved articles about Spanish locations, and then the tourism there went up. Kind regards Ziko Hinnosaar, Marit/Toomas Hinnosaar/Michael

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When it comes to understanding relationships between multiple language editions, I think that Bao et al.'s work on Omnipedia has a bunch of great insights for how to think about and measure relationships between content in different editions. Bao, P., Hecht, B., Carton, S., Quaderi, M., Horn, M.,

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Den fre 18 dec. 2020 kl 16:23 skrev Morten Wang : > > Halfaker et al's 2013 paper digs deeply into answering why the Wikipedia > community started declining in 2007. They find that the quality assurance > processes that were created to deal with the firehose of content coming in > with the

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Interesting Wikipedia studies

Morten Wang, 18/12/20 17:23: One thing I've noticed is that all the papers I'm referencing focus on the English Wikipedia. When it comes to studies of other language editions, or across multiple ones, I've struggled to come up with a key paper to point to. For this I usually reference Felipe

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Interesting Wikipedia studies

In the human-computer interaction field, I'd highlight three seminal papers: Viégas and Wattenberg's 2004 paper established Wikipedia as an area of study, and used novel visualization techniques to demonstrate how quickly vandalism is removed from the encyclopedia. Back in 2004, the main research

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Interesting Wikipedia studies

Hi Eric With a colleague we looked at the use of 'paintings' in the English edition of Wikipedia. I believe it is the first study of its type. Let me know if you want a preprint, which I am happy to share. best T Image-based information: paintings in Wikipedia Trilce Navarrete,

[Wiki-research-l] Interesting Wikipedia studies

Dear all, A Swedish professor is writing a piece on Wikipedia for Sweden's largest daily newspaper, for the upcoming 20 years anniversary. She asked me for "interesting and widespread studies" on Wikipedia – not necessarily within any certain focus. If you would share 2 or 3 studies, that have