Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2019-02-06 Thread Leila Zia
Hi all, Update time. Given that this is a long email: there is an action item in the 5th bullet point below for the language communities who want to participate in the next iteration of the study. If you are interested to have your language included in the study, we need a response by 2019-02-15.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2018-09-10 Thread Leila Zia
Hi all, Update time. Thank you all for your patience and support as we went through the different stages of the analysis for this study. We have now concluded the study based on the survey of the 14 Wikipedia languages [1]. Here is what will happen next: * We are doing some relatively major docu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2018-03-18 Thread Leila Zia
Hi Frans, On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 5:59 AM, Frans Grijzenhout wrote: > Hi Leila, thank you for sharing the results of this important survey. Must > have been a tremendous job and we are very happy to have this information > about our readers now available. We will certainly discuss this with the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2018-03-17 Thread Frans Grijzenhout
Hi Leila, thank you for sharing the results of this important survey. Must have been a tremendous job and we are very happy to have this information about our readers now available. We will certainly discuss this with the Dutch WP community. During this discussion we will of course also focus on th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2018-03-15 Thread Leila Zia
Hi all, We are ready to share the result of the first part of the study for the 14 languages that participated in the survey with you. To recap: the goal of the first part of the study was to compute the prevalence of the use-cases of Wikipedia across the 14 languages, basically, generating plots

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2017-06-21 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
OK, I did it :) I don't write in the Russian Wikipedia as much as I do in Hebrew and English, but it should be OK. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2017-06-21 9:57 GMT+03:00 Leila Zi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2017-06-20 Thread Leila Zia
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > > If I want this done for Hebrew and Russian, do I just reply to this thread? [Amir, you are aware of this but I'm hoping by saying it here we can change the outcome.] At the moment, all text is translated to Russian but we don't have an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2017-04-25 Thread Leila Zia
Hi all, [This is likely my last update here until after the study is done and we have results to share.] Thank you for all the responses on and off-list and the work some of you have already started doing. :) We have requests by 10 more languages

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2017-04-22 Thread Leila Zia
On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 6:06 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > Is there anything that interested volunteers can start translating now? :) For some languages, I can confirm in the next 12 hours if we can run the surveys in, in which case I'll ping the point of contact (which is at the moment, the pers

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2017-04-22 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2017-04-21 19:45 GMT+03:00 Leila Zia : > ==What do we want to do now?== > There are quite a few directions this research can continue on, and > the most immediate one is to understand whether the results that we > observe (in English Wikipeida) is robust across languages/cultures. > For this, we a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2017-04-21 Thread Yaroslav Blanter
Hi Gerard, arxiv.org is a free resource. It is actually one of the earliest free depositories, and in many fields, including mine (physics) it is customary to upload preprints at arxiv.org prior to sending for review. It can not be behind the paywall. Cheers Yaroslav On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 7:50

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2017-04-21 Thread Leila Zia
yeah, sorry, antanana and Amir: a better communication channel re sign-ups would be better. Emailing on this thread or off-list to me works. I'm keeping track of languages requested and I'll contact the person who requests them to figure out the next steps no later than Tuesday. L On Fri, Apr 21

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2017-04-21 Thread Alice Wiegand
German, also. Alice. Von meinem iPhone gesendet > Am 21.04.2017 um 19:25 schrieb attolippip : > > and Ukrainian :) and per Amir about instructions > > Best regards, > antanana > > 2017-04-21 20:03 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni : > >> If I want this done for Hebrew and Russian, do I just reply to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2017-04-21 Thread attolippip
and Ukrainian :) and per Amir about instructions Best regards, antanana 2017-04-21 20:03 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni : > If I want this done for Hebrew and Russian, do I just reply to this thread? > Or did I miss the instructions in the first email? :) > > בתאריך 21 באפר׳ 2017 19:46,‏ "Leila Zia"

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2017-04-21 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
If I want this done for Hebrew and Russian, do I just reply to this thread? Or did I miss the instructions in the first email? :) בתאריך 21 באפר׳ 2017 19:46,‏ "Leila Zia" כתב: > Hi all, > > ==Background== > In November 2016, I presented the result of a joint research that > helped us understand

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2017-04-21 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The DOI is.. Thanks, GerardM On 21 April 2017 at 18:58, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Is this paper behind a paywall ? > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 21 April 2017 at 18:45, Leila Zia wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> ==Background== >> In November 2016, I presented the result of a joint re

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2017-04-21 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Is this paper behind a paywall ? Thanks, GerardM On 21 April 2017 at 18:45, Leila Zia wrote: > Hi all, > > ==Background== > In November 2016, I presented the result of a joint research that > helped us understand English Wikipedia readers better. (Presentation > at https://www.youtube.

[Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2017-04-21 Thread Leila Zia
Hi all, ==Background== In November 2016, I presented the result of a joint research that helped us understand English Wikipedia readers better. (Presentation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIaMuWA84bY ). I talked about how we used English, Persian, and Spanish Wikipedia readers' inputs to buil