Analytics November 2020

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Invitation for Wikimedia Research Office hours December 1, 2020
by Martin Gerlach 01 Dec '20

01 Dec '20

Hi all, Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly Office hours on 2020-12-01 at 17:00-18:00 PM UTC (9am PT/6pm CET). To participate, join the video-call via this Wikimedia-meet link [2]. There is no set agenda - feel free to add your item to the list of topics in the etherpad [3] (You can do this after you join the meeting, too.), otherwise you are welcome to also just hang out. More detailed information (e.g. about how to attend) can be found here [4]. Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves more available to answer some of the research related questions that you as Wikimedia volunteer editors, organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in your projects and initiatives. Some example cases we hope to be able to support you in: - You have a specific research related question that you suspect you should be able to answer with the publicly available data and you don’t know how to find an answer for it, or you just need some more help with it. For example, how can I compute the ratio of anonymous to registered editors in my wiki? - You run into repetitive or very manual work as part of your Wikimedia contributions and you wish to find out if there are ways to use machines to improve your workflows. These types of conversations can sometimes be harder to find an answer for during an office hour, however, discussing them can help us understand your challenges better and we may find ways to work with each other to support you in addressing it in the future. - You want to learn what the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation does and how we can potentially support you. Specifically for affiliates: if you are interested in building relationships with the academic institutions in your country, we would love to talk with you and learn more. We have a series of programs that aim to expand the network of Wikimedia researchers globally and we would love to collaborate with those of you interested more closely in this space. - You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [5]. Hope to see many of you, Martin (WMF Research Team) [1] https://research.wikimedia.org/team.html [2] https://meet.wmcloud.org/ResearchOfficeHours [3] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Research-Analytics-Office-hours [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours [5] https://research.wikimedia.org/projects.html -- Martin Gerlach Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation

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[Wikimedia Research Showcase] November 18, 2020: Interpersonal Communication Between Editors
by Janna Layton 18 Nov '20

18 Nov '20

Hello, everyone, The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, November 18, at 9:30 AM PST/17:30 UTC, and will be on the theme of interpersonal communication between editors. Interpersonal communication, for example via talk pages, plays a crucial role for editors to coordinate their efforts in online collaborative communities. For this month’s showcase we have invited 2 speakers sharing their research on getting a deeper understanding of interpersonal communication on Wikipedia. In the first talk, Anna Rader will give an overview on editors’ communication networks and patterns, and the different types of dynamics commonly found in the way that users interact. In the second talk, Sneha Narayan presents recent work investigating whether easier interpersonal communication leads to enhanced productivity and newcomer participation across more than 200 wikis. YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G35OEDJ53bY As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You can also watch our past research showcases here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase This month's presentations: Talk before you type - Interpersonal communication on Wikipedia By Dr Anna Rader, Research Consultant Formally, the work of Wikipedia’s community of volunteers is asynchronous and anarchic: around the world, editors labor individually and in disorganized ways on the collective project. Yet this work is also underscored by informal and vibrant interpersonal communication: in the lively exchanges of talk pages and the labor-sharing of editorial networks, anonymous strangers communicate their intentions and coordinate their efforts to maintain the world’s largest online encyclopaedia. This working paper offers an overview of academic research into editors’ communication networks and patterns, with a particular focus on the role of talk pages. It considers four communication dynamics of editor interaction: cooperation, deliberation, conflict and coordination; and reviews key recommendations for enhancing peer-to-peer communication within the Wikipedia community. All Talk - How Increasing Interpersonal Communication on Wikis May Not Enhance Productivity By Sneha Narayan, Assistant Professor, Carlton College What role does interpersonal communication play in sustaining production in online collaborative communities? This paper sheds light on that question by examining the impact of a communication feature called "message walls" that allows for faster and more intuitive interpersonal communication in a population of wikis on Wikia. Using panel data from a sample of 275 wiki communities that migrated to message walls and a method inspired by regression discontinuity designs, we analyze these transitions and estimate the impact of the system's introduction. Although the adoption of message walls was associated with increased communication among all editors and newcomers, it had little effect on productivity, and was further associated with a decrease in article contributions from new editors. Our results imply that design changes that make communication easier in a social computing system may not always translate to increased participation along other dimensions. - Paper <https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3359203> -- Janna Layton (she/her) Administrative Associate - Product & Technology Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Maintenance on stat1008 on Monday, 2020-11-16
by Tobias Klausmann 16 Nov '20

16 Nov '20

Hi! Next Monday, 2020-11016, I will be doing some maintenance on stat1008 in the EU/CET morning. During this, there will be disruption of everything there and there will be multiple reboots. Afterwards, the machine will be running a newer kernel (5.8) and updated GPU drivers/rocm library (3.8). This is the same update as the one I did the week before last, on stat1005. If you have any questions or concerns, let us know. Best, Tobias -- Tobias Klausmann, SRE, Wikimedia Foundation

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Invitation for Wikimedia Research Office hours November 3, 2020
by Martin Gerlach 03 Nov '20

03 Nov '20

Hi all, Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly Office hours on Tuesday, 2020-11-03 at 17:00-18:00 PM UTC (9am PT/6pm CET). To participate, join the video-call via this Wikimedia-meet link [2]. There is no set agenda - feel free to add your item to the list of topics in the etherpad [3] (You can do this after you join the meeting, too.), otherwise you are welcome to also just hang out. More detailed information (e.g. about how to attend) can be found here [4]. Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves more available to answer some of the research related questions that you as Wikimedia volunteer editors, organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in your projects and initiatives. Some example cases we hope to be able to support you in: - You have a specific research related question that you suspect you should be able to answer with the publicly available data and you don’t know how to find an answer for it, or you just need some more help with it. For example, how can I compute the ratio of anonymous to registered editors in my wiki? - You run into repetitive or very manual work as part of your Wikimedia contributions and you wish to find out if there are ways to use machines to improve your workflows. These types of conversations can sometimes be harder to find an answer for during an office hour, however, discussing them can help us understand your challenges better and we may find ways to work with each other to support you in addressing it in the future. - You want to learn what the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation does and how we can potentially support you. Specifically for affiliates: if you are interested in building relationships with the academic institutions in your country, we would love to talk with you and learn more. We have a series of programs that aim to expand the network of Wikimedia researchers globally and we would love to collaborate with those of you interested more closely in this space. - You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [5]. Hope to see many of you, Martin (WMF Research Team) [1] https://research.wikimedia.org/team.html [2] https://meet.wmcloud.org/ResearchOfficeHours [3] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Research-Analytics-Office-hours [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours [5] https://research.wikimedia.org/projects.html -- Martin Gerlach Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation

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