Hi everyone,
Summary: Wiki Workshop 2022 [0] will take place virtually as part of
The Web Conference 2022 [1]. Call for papers is now open:
https://wikiworkshop.org/2022/#call . Deadline to submit for paper to
appear in the proceedings of the conference is Feb 3, for all other
submissions March 10. The workshop will take place on April 25, 2022.
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We are delighted to announce that Wiki Workshop 2022 [0] will be held
virtually April 25, 2022 and as part of the Web Conference 2022 [1].
In the past years, Wiki Workshop has traveled to Oxford, Montreal,
Cologne, Perth, Lyon, and San Francisco, and (virtually) to Taipei and
Ljubljana.
Last year, we had more than 150 participants in the workshop along
with 22 accepted paper presentations, keynote, panel, music and more.
The workshop is now a vibrant event for Wikimedia researchers and
those interested in this space to get together on an annual basis.
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 2022.
You can read more about the call for papers and the workshop at
http://wikiworkshop.org/2022/#call. Please note that the deadline for
the submissions to be considered for proceedings is February 3. All
other submissions should be received by March 10.
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,
Srijan Kumar, Georgia Tech
Emily Lesack, Wikimedia Foundation
Miriam Redi, Wikimedia Foundation
Bob West, EPFL
Leila Zia, Wikimedia Foundation
[0] https://wikiworkshop.org/2022/
[1] https://www2022.thewebconf.org/
Hi all,
Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours this Tuesday, 2022-03-01, at 12:00-13:00 UTC (4:00 PT / 7:00
ET / 13:00 CET). Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1646136000>.
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 more 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
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Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
Hi all,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesday, February
16, at 9:30 PT/17:30 UTC. The theme is: Collective Attention in Wikipedia.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg2aE2m08Qo
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
The Showcase will feature the following talks:
Modeling Collective Anticipation and Response on WikipediaBy *Renaud
Lambiotte <https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/renaud.lambiotte> (University
of Oxford)*The dynamics of popularity in online media are driven by a
combination of endogenous spreading mechanisms and response to exogenous
shocks including news and events. However, little is known about the
dependence of temporal patterns of popularity on event-related information,
e.g. which types of events trigger long-lasting activity. Here we propose a
simple model that describes the dynamics around peaks of popularity by
incorporating key features, i.e., the anticipatory growth and the decay of
collective attention together with circadian rhythms. The proposed model
allows us to develop a new method for predicting the future page view
activity and for clustering time series. To validate our methodology, we
collect a corpus of page view data from Wikipedia associated to a range of
planned events, that are events which we know in advance will have a fixed
date in the future, such as elections and sport events. Our methodology is
superior to existing models in both prediction and clustering tasks.
Furthermore, restricting to Wikipedia pages associated to association
football, we observe that the specific realization of the event, in our
case which team wins a match or the type of the match, has a significant
effect on the response dynamics after the event. Our work demonstrates the
importance of appropriately modeling all phases of collective attention, as
well as the connection between temporal patterns of attention and
characteristic underlying information of the events they represent.
Sudden Attention Shifts on Wikipedia During the COVID-19 CrisisBy *Kristina
Gligorić <https://kristinagligoric.github.io/> (EPFL)*We study how the
COVID-19 pandemic, alongside the severe mobility restrictions that ensued,
has impacted information access on Wikipedia, the world’s largest online
encyclopedia. A longitudinal analysis that combines pageview statistics for
12 Wikipedia language editions with mobility reports published by Apple and
Google reveals massive shifts in the volume and nature of information
seeking patterns during the pandemic. Interestingly, while we observe a
transient increase in Wikipedia’s pageview volume following mobility
restrictions, the nature of information sought was impacted more
permanently. These changes are most pronounced for language editions
associated with countries where the most severe mobility restrictions were
implemented. We also find that articles belonging to different topics
behaved differently; e.g., attention towards entertainment-related topics
is lingering and even increasing, while the interest in health- and
biology-related topics was either small or transient. Our results highlight
the utility of Wikipedia for studying how the pandemic is affecting
people’s needs, interests, and concerns.
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Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
Hi everyone!
The wiki comparison tool [1] is a quick reference for the teeming ecosystem
of Wikimedia wikis maintained by the Product Analytics team [2] at the
Wikimedia Foundation. The tool has just been updated with more recent data
(covering Jan–Dec 2021), as well as bugfixes, documentation improvements,
and a new monthly pageviews field.
If you have questions, be sure to consult the documentation in the
"introduction", "change log", and "metric definitions" tabs. If you don't
find an answer or have feedback, please get in touch! You can reach us at
product-analytics(a)wikimedia.org.
[1]
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a-UBqsYtJl6gpauJyanx0nyxuPqRvhzJRN8…
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Product_Analytics
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Neil Shah-Quinn
senior data scientist, Product Analytics
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Product_Analytics>
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi all,
Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours this Wednesday, 2022-02-02 at 00:00-1:00 UTC (16:00 PT 02-01 /
19:00 ET 02-01 / 1:00 CET 02-02). Find your local date and time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1643760056>.
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]. 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 more 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
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Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
Hello,
I noticed that the public api for daily top viewed pages per country[1] only goes back to Jan 1st, 2021. Could this be backfilled from other datasets to 2015, without too much effort on Your part? The research team encouraged me to ask here, when I spoke with them about my need for the data—I'm a data science student at the IT University of Copenhagen doing a thesis on predicting country level human value survey responses[2] based on the top read Wikipedia pages in the given country.
Thanks!
Noah
[1] https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/#/Pageviews%20data/get_metrics_pageviews_…
[2] http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/downloadwizard/
Hi all,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesday, January
19, at 9:30 AM PST/17:30 UTC. The theme is: Beyond English Wikipedia.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRaCa-v8nfQ
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
The Showcase will feature the following talks:
Comparing Language Communities - Characterizing Collaboration in the
English, French and Spanish Language Editions of WikipediaBy *Taryn Bipat
<https://tarynbipat.me/> (Microsoft, formerly University of Washington)*Is
Wikipedia a standardized platform with a common model of collaboration or
is it a set of 312 active language editions with distinct collaborative
models? In the last 20 years, researchers have extensively analyzed the
complexities of group work that enable the creation of quality articles in
the English Wikipedia, but most of our intellectual assumptions about
collaborative practices on Wikipedia remain solely based on an Anglocentric
perspective. This research extends the current Anglocentric body of
literature in human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer-supported
cooperative work (CSCW) through three studies that mutually help build an
understanding of collaboration models in the English (EN), French (FR), and
Spanish (ES) editions of Wikipedia. In the first study, I replicated a
model by Viégas et al. (2007) based on editors' behaviors in the English
Wikipedia. This model was used as a lens to examine collaborative activity
in EN, FR, and ES. In the second study, I leveraged a collaboration model
by Kriplean et al. (2007) that suggested editors used “power plays” – how
groups of editors claim control over article content through the discourse
of Wikipedia policy – in their talk page debates to justify their edits
made on articles. In the third study, I interviewed editors from each
language edition to build a typology of collaborative behavior and further
understand the editor's perceptions of power and authority on Wikipedia.
Understanding Wikipedia Practices Through Hindi, Urdu, and English Takes on
an Evolving Regional ConflictBy *Jacob Thebault-Spieker
<https://jacob.thebault-spieker.com/> (Information School, University of
Wisconsin – Madison)*Wikipedia is the product of thousands of editors
working collaboratively to provide free and up-to-date encyclopedic
information to the project’s users. This article asks to what degree
Wikipedia articles in three languages — Hindi, Urdu, and English — achieve
Wikipedia’s mission of making neutrally-presented, reliable information on
a polarizing, controversial topic available to people around the globe. We
chose the topic of the recent revocation of Article 370 of the Constitution
of India, which, along with other recent events in and concerning the
region of Jammu and Kashmir, has drawn attention to related articles on
Wikipedia. This work focuses on the English Wikipedia, being the preeminent
language edition of the project, as well as the Hindi and Urdu editions.
Hindi and Urdu are the two standardized varieties of Hindustani, a lingua
franca of Jammu and Kashmir. We analyzed page view and revision data for
three Wikipedia articles to gauge popularity of the pages in our corpus,
and responsiveness of editors to breaking news events and problematic
edits. Additionally, we interviewed editors from all three language
editions to learn about differences in editing processes and motivations,
and we compared the text of the articles across languages as they appeared
shortly after the revocation of Article 370. Across languages, we saw
discrepancies in article tone, organization, and the information presented,
as well as differences in how editors collaborate and communicate with one
another. Nevertheless, in Hindi and Urdu, as well as English, editors
predominantly try to adhere to the principle of neutral point of view
(NPOV), and for the most part, the editors quash attempts by other editors
to push political agendas.Best regards,
Emily
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Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
Hi all,
Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours this Tuesday, 2022-01-11, at 12:00-13:00 UTC (4:00 PT / 7:00
ET / 13:00 CET). View your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1641902452>. Please note the time change!
We are experimenting with our Office hours schedules to make our sessions
more globally welcoming.
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 more 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
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Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
[Apologies for cross-posting.]
Hi all,
We invite you to nominate one or more scholarly research publications
to be considered for the Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the
Year. Learn more below.
=Purpose of the award=
Recognize recent research on or about the Wikimedia projects or recent
research that is of importance to the Wikimedia projects. Recognize
the researchers behind the research.
You can learn more about 2021's winners at
https://research.wikimedia.org/awards.html .
=Eligibility criteria=
Your nomination must meet the following criteria:
* The research must be on, about, using data from, and/or of
importance to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons or
other Wikimedia projects.
* The publication must be available in English.
* The research must have been published between January 1, 2021 and
December 31, 2021.
=Nomination process=
Submit your nominations by 2022-02-07 through
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wmfray2021 . We will ask you
to provide the following information in your nomination:
* Title of the manuscript
* A copy of the manuscript you are nominating
* A summary of the research and a clear justification for why the work
merits the award (in 350 words or fewer in English).
Note that self-nominations and nominations of others' work are both welcome.
==Winner(s)==
The winner(s) will be announced in a ceremony as part of Wiki Workshop
2022: https://wikiworkshop.org/2022/ .
If you have any questions, please contact us at
wmf-ray-2021(a)easychair.org or here.
Best,
Benjamin Mako Hill (University of Washington)
Leila Zia (Wikimedia Foundation)