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, 2017 at 10:25 AM, attolippip <attolip...@gmail.com> wrote: > and Ukrainian :) and per Amir about instructions > > Best regards, > antanana > > 2017-04-21 20:03 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il>: > >> 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" <le...@wikimedia.org> כתב: >> >> > 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 >> > build a taxonomy of Wikipedia use-cases along several dimensions, >> > capturing users’ motivations to visit Wikipedia, the depth of >> > knowledge they are seeking, and their knowledge of the topic of >> > interest prior to visiting Wikipedia. I also talked about the results >> > of the study we did to quantify the prevalence of these use-cases via >> > a large-scale user survey conducted on English Wikipedia. In that >> > study, we also matched survey responses to the respondents’ digital >> > traces in Wikipedia’s server logs which enabled us in discovering >> > behavioral patterns associated with specific use-cases. You can read >> > the full study at https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05379 . >> > >> > ==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 are going to repeat the study, but this time in more >> > languages. Here are the languages on our list: Arabic, Dutch, English, >> > Hindi, Japanese, Spanish (thanks to all the volunteers who have been >> > helping us translating all survey related documents to these >> > languages.:) >> > >> > ==What about your language?== >> > If your language is not one of the six languages above and you'd like >> > to learn about the readers of Wikipedia in it (in the specific ways >> > described above), please get back to me by Monday, April 24, AoE. I >> > cannot guarantee that we can run the study in your language, however, >> > I guarantee that we will give it a good try if you're interested. The >> > decision to include more languages will depend on: our capacity to do >> > the analysis, the speed at which your community can help us translate >> > the material to the language, the traffic to that language, a couple >> > of sentences on how you'd think the result can help your community, >> > and your willingness to help us document the results for your language >> > at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_ >> > Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour >> > (Quite some work will need to go to have readable/usable >> > documentations available and we are too small to be able to guarantee >> > that on our own for many languages.) >> > >> > Best, >> > Leila >> > >> > -- >> > Leila Zia >> > Senior Research Scientist >> > Wikimedia Foundation >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> > wiki/Wikimedia-l >> > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> wiki/Wikimedia-l >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
