Starting tomorrow (February 26), we will be broadcasting the monthly showcase
of the Wikimedia Research and Data team.
The showcase is an opportunity to present and discuss recent work researchers
at the Foundation have been conducting. The showcase will start at 11.30
Pacific Time and we will post a link to the stream a few minutes before it
starts. You can also join the conversation on the #wikimedia-office IRC channel
on freenode (we’ll be sticking around after the end of the showcase to answer
any question).
This month, we’ll be talking about Wikipedia mobile readers and article
creation trends:
Oliver Keyes
Mobile session times
A prerequisite to many pieces of interesting reader research is being able to
accurately identify the length of users' 'sessions'. I will explain one
potential way of doing it, how I’ve applied it to mobile readers, and what
research this opens up. (20 mins)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Mobile_sessions
Aaron Halfaker
Wikipedia article creation research
I'll present research examining trends in newcomer article creation across 10
languages with a focus on English and German Wikipedias. I'll show that, in
wikis where anonymous users can create articles, their articles are less likely
to be deleted than articles created by newly registered editors. I’ll also
show the results of an in-depth analysis of Articles for Creation (AfC) which
suggest that while AfC’s process seems to result in the publication of high
quality articles, it also dramatically reduces the rate at which good new
articles are published. (30 mins)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation
Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow!
Dario
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