Analytics February 2021

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[events] Wiki Workshop 2021 Announcement and Call for Papers
by Leila Zia 09 Apr '21

09 Apr '21

Hi everyone, We are delighted to announce that Wiki Workshop 2021 will be held virtually in April 2021 and as part of the Web Conference 2021 [1]. The exact day is to be finalized and we know it will be between April 19-23. In the past years, Wiki Workshop has traveled to Oxford, Montreal, Cologne, Perth, Lyon, and San Francisco, and (virtually) to Taipei. Last year, we had more than 120 participants in the workshop and we are particularly excited about this year's as we will celebrate the 20th birthday of Wikipedia. We encourage contributions by all researchers who study the Wikimedia projects. We specifically encourage 1-2 page submissions of preliminary research. You will have the option to publish your work as part of the proceedings of The Web Conference 2021. You can read more about the call for papers and the workshop at http://wikiworkshop.org/2021/#call. Please note that the deadline for the submissions to be considered for proceedings is January 29. All other submissions should be received by March 1. If you have questions about the workshop, please let us know on this list or at wikiworkshop(a)googlegroups.com. Looking forward to seeing many of you in this year's edition. Best, Miriam Redi, Wikimedia Foundation Bob West, EPFL Leila Zia, Wikimedia Foundation [1] https://www2021.thewebconf.org/

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Wiki comparison 2020 data is available
by Jennifer Wang 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

Hi all, For your reference we have updated wiki comparison dataset <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Product_Analytics/Comparison_datasets> with 2020 data <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a-UBqsYtJl6gpauJyanx0nyxuPqRvhzJRN8…>. If you have any feedback or suggestions, please let us know via product-analytics(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:product-analytics@wikimedia.org>. Regards, Jennifer & Product Analytics

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[Wikimedia Research Showcase] February 17, 2021: Censorship (of Wikipedia)
by Martin Gerlach 17 Feb '21

17 Feb '21

Hi all, The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, February 17, at 9:00 AM PST/17:00 UTC (Note that this is 30 minutes earlier than the usual time). This month’s showcase will be around the topic of censorship (of Wikipedia). In the first talk, Daniel Romero presents a study examining the effect of censorship on the collaborative behavior of editors. In the second talk, Margaret Roberts presents work on disaggregating the effects of censorship on proactive vs incidental consumption of information. Youtube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z52wPt34rJc 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 Talk 1: Speaker: Daniel Romero (University of Michigan) Title: Shocking the Crowd: The Effect of Censorship Shocks on Chinese Wikipedia Abstract: Collaborative crowdsourcing has become a popular approach to organizing work across the globe. Being global also means being vulnerable to shocks – unforeseen events that disrupt crowds – that originate from any country. In this study, we examine changes in collaborative behavior of editors of Chinese Wikipedia that arise due to the 2005 government censorship in mainland China. Using the exogenous variation in the fraction of editors blocked across different articles due to the censorship, we examine the impact of reduction in group size, which we denote as the shock level, on three collaborative behavior measures: volume of activity, centralization, and conflict. We find that activity and conflict drop on articles that face a shock, whereas centralization increases. The impact of a shock on activity increases with shock level, whereas the impact on centralization and conflict is higher for moderate shock levels than for very small or very high shock levels. These findings provide support for threat rigidity theory – originally introduced in the organizational theory literature – in the context of large-scale collaborative crowds. Talk 2 Speaker: Margaret Roberts (University of California San Diego) Title: Censorship's Effect on Incidental Exposure to Information: Evidence from Wikipedia Abstract: The fast-growing body of research on internet censorship has examined the effects of censoring selective pieces of political information and the unintended consequences of censorship of entertainment. However, we know very little about the broader consequences of coarse censorship or censorship that affects a large array of information such as an entire website or search engine. In this study, we use China’s complete block of Chinese language Wikipedia (zh.wikipedia.org) on May 19, 2015, to disaggregate the effects of coarse censorship on proactive consumption of information—information users seek out—and on incidental consumption of information—information users are not actively seeking but consume when they happen to come across it. We quantify the effects of censorship of Wikipedia not only on proactive information consumption but also on opportunities for exploration and incidental consumption of information. We find that users from mainland China were much more likely to consume information on Wikipedia about politics and history incidentally rather than proactively, suggesting that the effects of censorship on incidental information access may be politically significant. -- Martin Gerlach Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation

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Pageviews data for February 9th
by Joshua Haecker 10 Feb '21

10 Feb '21

Hi It seems there are no pageviews data for February 9th available, Does anyone know when they will be available? Best, ~Josh Joshua Haecker VP of Product and Analysis Predata, Inc. josh(a)predata.com 609-865-2181 777 6th St Northwest Washington, D.C. *This message and its contents are confidential. If you received this message in error, do not use or rely upon it. Instead, please inform the sender and then delete it. Thank you.*

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Invitation for Wikimedia Research Office hours February 2, 2021
by Martin Gerlach 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

Hi all, Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly Office hours next week on 2021-02-02 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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