The next Research & Data showcase will be live-streamed today Wed 5/21 at 11.30 PT.
The streaming link will be posted on the lists a few minutes before the showcase starts and as usual you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
We look forward to seeing you!
Dario
This month:
UX research at WMF
Introducing Abbey Ripstra, the new UX research lead at the Wikimedia Foundation.
A bird's eye view of editor activation
by Dario Taraborelli -- In this talk I will give a high-level overview of data on new editor activation, presenting longitudinal data from the largest Wikipedias, a comparison between desktop and mobile registrations and the relative activation rates of different cohorts of newbies.
Collaboration patterns in Articles for Creation
by Aaron Halfaker -- Wikipedia needs to attract and retain newcomers while also increasing the quality of its content. Yet new Wikipedia users are disproportionately affected by the quality assurance mechanisms designed to thwart spammers and promoters. English Wikipedia’s en:WP:Articles for Creation provides a protected space for newcomers to draft articles, which are reviewed against minimum quality guidelines before they are published. In this presentation, describe and a study of how this drafting process has affected the productivity of newcomers in Wikipedia. Using a mixed qualitative and quantitative approach, I'll show the process's pre-publication review, which is intended to improve the success of newcomers, in fact decreases newcomer productivity in English Wikipedia and offer recommendations for system designers.
Is there a way to retrieve a canonical list of bots on enwiki or elsewhere?
I'm interested in omitting automated revisions (sorry Stuart!) for the
purposes of building co-authorship networks.
Grabbing everything under 'Category:All Wikipedia bots' excludes some major
ones like SmackBot, Cydebot, VIAFbot, Full-date unlinking bot, etc. because
these bots have changed names but the redirect is not categorized, the
account has been removed/deprecated, or a user appears to have removed the
relevant bot categories from the page.
Can anyone advise me on how to kill all the bots in my data without having
to resort to manual cleaning or hacky regex?
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Lazer Lab
College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University
Fellow, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, Harvard University
Affiliate, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School
b.keegan(a)neu.edu
www.brianckeegan.com
M: 617.803.6971
O: 617.373.7200
Skype: bckeegan
Hello All,
I'm working on the Open-Access Signalling Project[1], which aims to signal
and badge when a reference in Wikipedia is Open Access source. I'm writing
the bot at the moment to do this, and I'm encountering a question - how do
I keep track of the values of the template {{Cite doi | doi=value}}, in as
close to real-time as possible?
The most efficient approach I can come up with is to query the SQL servers
on Labs in constant loop, returning the results of "What transcludes {{Cite
doi}}" and seeing if the last_edited timestamp is newer than previous? If
the last_edit is newer, then get the content of the page and see if the
{{Cite_doi}} value has changed, checking against a local database.
This seems horribly inefficient still. Is there a hook to know when a
template on a page has been edited, rather than having to check every time
the page has been edited?
This is possibly not the right list for this question. If not, which other
would you suggest? Wikitech-l did not seem right either?
Thanks in advance,
Max Klein
‽ http://notconfusing.com/
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_…
hi Pine,
this is an excellent point, and I believe there are definitely too few
systematic studies on the topic, as well as targeted programs.
<blatant promotion mode on>
In my book, "Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia", which has
left the press last week, I have a whole chapter ("Between Anarchy and
Bureaucracy: Wikimedia Governance") dedicated to issues of governance and
internal leadership.
http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=24010
Unfortunately, Google Books preview has most of the pages limited (and
Stanford University Press is not too keen on open access of their
publications, sadly).
http://books.google.pl/books?id=hBpuAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA178&dq=jemielniak%20comm…
</blatant promotion mode off>
best,
dariusz "pundit"
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:12 AM, ENWP Pine <deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I've heard the word "leadership" used a lot in WMF, synonymously with
> "management" in my experience. That makes sense in a somewhat hierarchical
> organization like WMF, although this model has received some criticism from
> the community for allegedly excessive top-down thinking. I'm not familiar
> enough with the culture in the WMF Office to comment about its strengths
> and weaknesses, but I would like to ask questions about leadership in the
> community.
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> In the community, which is diffuse and where roles are highly flexible,
> there have been some studies done done about leadership but the ones I know
> about usually focus on hierarchies within the community, especially how
> people get chosen for administrator roles on-wiki. As we are thinking about
> our online culture, we can be thinking about movement leadership. Who are
> the leaders, how are they trained, how are they selected, what do they do,
> what makes them effective, and how can they be given ongoing support and
> training? I think many of us would agree that adminship and leadership are
> not always synonymous, and there are many ways that people exercise
> leadership in non-hierarchical ways.
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> I hear frequently about stress from members of English Wikipedia's Arbcom,
> and I hope WMF is thinking about how to train and support people who get
> chosen for such visible, important, and often stressful volunteer roles.
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> I would also like to point out that Wikimedia is developing training
> materials for leaders of chapters and programs.
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> Is there anyone at WMF who is taking a holistic view of community
> leadership and how to understand, train and support it in ways that support
> the strategic plan goals?
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> Training that might be relevant could include how to create friendly
> spaces online,
> resolve online conflicts, engage in cross-cultural communication,
> encourage strategic thinking, influence change, and maintain morale. I
> think a series of five-minute training modules could be helpful for online
> and offline volunteers, along with dedicating some Program & Evaluation or
> Research time to understanding leadership in the non-hierarchical
> community. These initiatives could help with encouraging teamwork and
> collaboration online by influencing and training "leaders".
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> I would also be interested in hearing about how WMF thinks about
> "leadership" internally, since there seems to be some community feeling
> that WMF's thinking about leadership is incompatible with the community's.
> I don't have an opinion but I would like to be more informed, and hopefully
> encourage WMF to think about how the organization as a whole interacts with
> the community.
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> Thanks,
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> Pine
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profesor zarządzania
kierownik katedry Zarządzania Międzynarodowego
i centrum badawczego CROW
Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
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członek Akademii Młodych Uczonych Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Dear all,
With the aim to compare Wikipedia traffic report data (e.g. viewing versus
editing, regional differences within a language version, etc.), I have made
a few more interactive infographics which show the historical changes since
late 2011. (Historical numbers are scraped from the past versions archived
by the Internet archive)
For more, please visit follow the link below:
http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/hanteng/2014/05/16/wikipedia-traffic/
It has at least one nice interactive feature: a user can zoom and pan to
view the chart easily with a mouse or mousepad. The SVG vector-based
presentation insures the picture quality is consistent when users zoom in
to compare data points. (I haven't figured out how mpld3's html tooltip
work for this project, though.)
It is also possible to extend the prototype with dynamic json objects
so that the chart/tables can be updated automatically.
Any suggestions and comments are welcome.
Best,
han-teng liao
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Hi,
I'm trying to find a client side software that will enable me to record
*all* actions of the users:* local action* on the tablet (save, pinch,
swipe, open documents, etc...) and *server transactions* (web searches,
sending information, clicking on adds, etc...). I have found several such
programs for window os, but not for the android platform (found in android
software that records server transactions only).
Any help on the subject would be welcomed,
Simon