Analytics June 2022

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Data engineering risks when migrating to Kubernetes
by Dominic Walden 06 Jul '22

06 Jul '22

Hello, I am one of the test engineers on the QTE team. There is a plan to migrate the MediaWiki software on production to Kubernetes. In preparation for this, we will be migrating test2wiki to Kubernetes first so that QTE can test it and catch any bugs before the wider roll-out. I am trying to identify areas of our software for which the migration to Kubernetes might pose a risk. I wonder if this might be true of any of the software you are responsible for. In particular, I am thinking about where MediaWiki is interacting with different services in our ecosystem. I don't know enough about this area to make an informed judgement. Any ideas about what might be risky and in need of testing, and how one might go about testing it on test2wiki (https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) would be of great help to me. Let me know if you have any questions. Thank you, Dom

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Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours July 5, 2022
by Emily Lescak 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

Hi all, Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly Office hours Tuesday, 2022-07-05. Find your local time here <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1657036800>. To participate, join the video-call via this link [2]. There is no set agenda - feel free to add your item to the list of topics in the etherpad [3]. You are welcome to add questions / items to the etherpad in advance, or when you arrive at the session. Even if you are unable to attend the session, you can leave a question that we can address asynchronously. If you do not have a specific agenda item, you are welcome to hang out and enjoy the conversation. More detailed information (e.g., about how to attend) can be found here [4]. Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves available to answer research related questions that you as Wikimedia volunteer editors, organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in your projects and initiatives. Here are some example cases we hope to be able to support you with: - 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, Emily, on behalf of the WMF Research Team [1] https://research.wikimedia.org [2] https://meet.jit.si/WMF-Research-Office-Hours [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 -- Emily Lescak (she / her) Senior Research Community Officer The Wikimedia Foundation

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Wikimedia Research Showcase June 15
by Emily Lescak 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

Hi all, The next Research Showcase, *Wikipedia's Languages*, will be live-streamed Wednesday, June 15, at 4:00 AM PST/11:00 AM UTC. View your local time here <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1655290800>. YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZQM1dtn3g0 You are welcome to ask questions via YouTube chat or on IRC at #wikimedia-research. This month's presentations: Quantifying knowledge synchronisation in the 21st centuryBy *Jisung Yoon (Pohang University of Science and Technology)*Humans acquire and accumulate knowledge through language usage and eagerly exchange their knowledge for advancement. Although geographical barriers had previously limited communication, the emergence of information technology has opened new avenues for knowledge exchange. However, it is unclear which communication pathway is dominant in the 21st century. Here, we explore the dominant path of knowledge diffusion in the 21st century using Wikipedia, the largest communal dataset. We evaluate the similarity of shared knowledge between population groups, distinguished based on their language usage. When population groups are more engaged with each other, their knowledge structure is more similar, where engagement is indicated by socio-economic connections, such as cultural, linguistic, and historical features. Moreover, geographical proximity is no longer a critical requirement for knowledge dissemination. Furthermore, we integrate our data into a mechanistic model to better understand the underlying mechanism and suggest that the knowledge "Silk Road" of the 21st century is based online. The Language Geography of WikipediaBy *Martin Dittus*Every language is a system of being, doing, knowing, and imagining. With over 7,000 active languages in the world, how many languages are fully represented online? To answer this question, digital non-profit Whose Knowledge? initiated the first ever report on the State of the Internet's Languages. As part of this report, Martin Dittus and Mark Graham have investigated the languages of Wikipedia. Wikipedia began with a single English-language edition more than two decades ago, and now offers more than 300 language editions, which places it at the forefront of digital language support. However, this does not mean that speakers of these languages get access to the same content: Wikipedia’s language editions vary widely in scale. We further find that this inequality is also reflected in Wikipedia’s geographic coverage: not all places are captured in every language. Wikipedia's coverage often follows the global distribution of speakers of the respective language. Yet even when we account for the distribution of language populations, certain language communities are much more strongly represented on Wikipedia than others. As a consequence, we find that for many countries in Africa, Central and South America, and South Asia, most of the content about those countries is in a foreign language, often a European-colonial language. In other words, in many of these places, people may need to be able to speak a second (possibly foreign) language in order to access Wikipedia information about their own places. Why do we see these differences? And what can be done to improve things? You can also watch our past research showcases here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase Emily, on behalf of the Research team -- Emily Lescak (she / her) Senior Research Community Officer The Wikimedia Foundation

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[Datasets] [Wikistats] Mediawiki History delayed this month
by Dan Andreescu 07 Jun '22

07 Jun '22

Quick message to say that the data pipeline that feeds into Wikistats <https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects>, mediawiki history dumps <https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/mediawiki_history/readme.html>, and many datasets internal to wmf (like edit hourly <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data_Lake/Edits/Edit_hourly>), is blocked by a change to the production databases. This might resolve in the next few days, but we don't have a lot of control over the resolution. We hope the delay will be no longer than a week, but we'll keep this thread updated.

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[event] Wiki Workshop 2022 - Registration open
by Leila Zia 06 Jun '22

06 Jun '22

Hi all, The registration for Wiki Workshop 2022 [1] is now open. The event is virtually held on April 25, 12:00-18:30 UTC and as part of The Web Conference 2022 [2]. The plenary parts of the event will be recorded and shared publicly afterwards. Wiki Workshop is the largest Wikimedia research event of the year (so far;) that the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation co-organizes with our Research Fellow, Bob West (EPFL). This year, Srijan Kumar (Georgia Tech) joined the organizing team as well.:) The event brings together scholars and researchers from across the world who are interested in or are actively engaged with research and development on the Wikimedia projects. While the details of the schedule are to be finalized and posted in the coming week, we expect to generally follow the format of 2021 [3]. This year we received research submissions from more than 20 countries and have accepted 27 research papers whose authors will present the work as part of the workshop (If you are an author of an accepted paper: congrats!:) . Our keynote speaker is Larry Lessig [4] and we will have a panel to reflect on the decade anniversary of SOPA/PIPA, moderated by Erik Moeller (Freedom of the Press). And of course, all the music, games, etc. will remain. :) If you are interested in participating in the live event, please indicate your interest by filling out [5]. Anyone is encouraged to register: you don't have to be a researcher. In the registration form, please explain why attending the live event will support you in your work on the Wikimedia projects and beyond. If you have questions, please don't hesitate to reach out. Best, Leila [1] https://wikiworkshop.org/2022/ [2] https://www2022.thewebconf.org/ [3] https://wikiworkshop.org/2021/#schedule [4] https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10519/Lessig [5] (privacy statement for the Google form survey [6]) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSctlkUv8FasB2Nc4RvThnxAbjPzUwmnxB2… [6] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Wiki_Workshop_Registration_Priv… -- Leila Zia Head of Research Wikimedia Foundation

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Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours June 7, 2022
by Emily Lescak 01 Jun '22

01 Jun '22

Hi all, Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly Office hours Tuesday, 2022-06-07. Find your local time here <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1654642800>. To participate, join the video-call via this link [2]. There is no set agenda - feel free to add your item to the list of topics in the etherpad [3]. You are welcome to add questions / items to the etherpad in advance, or when you arrive at the session. Even if you are unable to attend the session, you can leave a question that we can address asynchronously. If you do not have a specific agenda item, you are welcome to hang out and enjoy the conversation. More detailed information (e.g., about how to attend) can be found here [4]. Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves available to answer research related questions that you as Wikimedia volunteer editors, organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in your projects and initiatives. Here are some example cases we hope to be able to support you with: - 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, Emily, on behalf of the WMF Research Team [1] https://research.wikimedia.org [2] https://meet.jit.si/WMF-Research-Office-Hours [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 -- Emily Lescak (she / her) Senior Research Community Officer The Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: Analytics Digest, Vol 123, Issue 4
by Tim Poyner 31 May '22

31 May '22

To all observers, Okay so I wouldn't even bother with the idea of altering infrastructure, I'd Focus More On Substructure In between each branch, even though they would later have to go through a phishing obviously if the idea is getting the organization to proceed through the initial intake and have a filtration system with a protocols to ensure nothing is ever able to be considered stagnant.Especially avoiding the ongoing process resulting in the stress upon the colliding aforementioned intake process that's built noticeably compiled attention from different standpoints. I also haven't the slightest clue in that which is I am amidst the process of, but i just reread it and sounds like that would overcomplicate the units pathing/macros/scripting /trigger/actionbecausei seriously am so sick i cannot even keep focus and cold sweats and shivering i will take my leave for a little r&r will be strong and recuperate by next week.

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