On Feb 25, 2014, at 6:06 PM, Dario Taraborelli <dario(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Starting tomorrow (February 26), we will be
broadcasting the monthly showcase of the Wikimedia Research and Data team.
The showcase is an opportunity to present and discuss recent work researchers at the
Foundation have been conducting. The showcase will start at 11.30 Pacific Time and we will
post a link to the stream a few minutes before it starts. You can also join the
conversation on the #wikimedia-office IRC channel on freenode (we’ll be sticking around
after the end of the showcase to answer any question).
This month, we’ll be talking about Wikipedia mobile readers and article creation trends:
Oliver Keyes
Mobile session times
A prerequisite to many pieces of interesting reader research is being able to accurately
identify the length of users' 'sessions'. I will explain one potential way of
doing it, how I’ve applied it to mobile readers, and what research this opens up. (20
mins)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Mobile_sessions
Aaron Halfaker
Wikipedia article creation research
I'll present research examining trends in newcomer article creation across 10
languages with a focus on English and German Wikipedias. I'll show that, in wikis
where anonymous users can create articles, their articles are less likely to be deleted
than articles created by newly registered editors. I’ll also show the results of an
in-depth analysis of Articles for Creation (AfC) which suggest that while AfC’s process
seems to result in the publication of high quality articles, it also dramatically reduces
the rate at which good new articles are published. (30 mins)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation
Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow!
Dario