Wiki-research-l May 2007

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Fwd: New Pew Internet report: 36% of Americans consult Wikipedia
by phoebe ayers 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Maybe not news, considering our traffic rankings.... but this is one of the first "real" studies of Wikipedia use I've seen, conducted by the prestigious Pew Internet project and released in April 2007 in a "data memo". http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Wikipedia07.pdf The first few paragraphs: " More than a third of American adult internet users (36%) consult the citizen-generated online encyclopedia Wikipedia, according to a new nationwide survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. And on a typical day in the winter of 2007, 8% of online Americans consulted Wikipedia. There has been ongoing controversy about the reliability of articles on Wikipedia. Still, the Pew Internet Project survey shows that Wikipedia is far more popular among the well-educated than it is among those with lower levels of education. For instance, 50% of those with at least a college degree consult the site, compared with 22% of those with a high school diploma. And 46% of those age 18 and older who are current full- or part-time students have used Wikipedia, compared with 36% of the overall internet population. In addition, young adults and broadband users have been among those who are earlier adopters of Wikipedia. While 44% of those ages 18-29 use Wikipedia to look for information, just 29% of users age 50 and older consult the site. In a similar split, 42% of home broadband users look for information on Wikipedia, while just 26% of home dial-up users do so."

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SWiM 0.1 is out (semantic wiki for mathematics)
by Christoph Lange 24 May '07

24 May '07

Dear Wiki[media] researchers, finally, SWiM, the semantic wiki for mathematical knowledge management, is available for download. It is capable of editing, browsing, and presenting mathematical knowledge represented in the structural semantic markup language OMDoc (Open Mathematical Documents; see http://www.omdoc.org). Download it at http://kwarc.info/projects/swim/, or test the demo at http://raspberry.eecs.iu-bremen.de:8081/SWiM/. Recent news can be found on the MathWeb wiki (http://mathweb.org/wiki/SWiM/), and for bug reports and feature requests, please use our Trac site (http://trac.kwarc.info/swim/). So far, version 0.1 of SWiM is available, based on IkeWiki 0.9.1, but with a look and feel similar to MediaWiki -- except for a user-friendly text editor, but that's why it is "0.1" ;-) To learn about the ideas behind the project, please have a look at the technical report about SWiM (http://kwarc.info/projects/swim/pubs/tr-swim.pdf). SWiM 0.1 serves as a prototype to get feedback for the development of a collaborative platform for managing general scientific knowledge exploited by various services, as presented in more recent research papers (see http://kwarc.info/projects/swim/pubs.html). You can soon expect a more up-to-date SWiM 0.2 (based on IkeWiki 1.99, of course), with the first new ideas of my Ph.D. proposal put into practice. Best, Christoph -- Christoph Lange, Jacobs Univ. Bremen, http://kwarc.info/clange, ICQ# 51191833

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Exploring the Feasibility of Automatically Rating Online Article Quality
by Brian 10 May '07

10 May '07

What would you do with a system that was intelligent enough to analyze a Wikipedia article along with qualitative human judgments of that article ("brilliant prose") and tell you exactly what the humans meant, even when they weren't sure themselves? At least years Wikimania Erik Zachte and I discussed exactly this possibility. Invariably these discussions lead to the subjective nature of quality, and quickly diverge to [[Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance]]. But my colleagues and I have determined that this problem should be tractable, and have initiated a research program to find out if we are correct. What we would like to know is your dreams for such a system, what you would like it to do, and what you would do with it. To help kick-start your imaginations, please see the following paper, written by myself, a psychologist, Trevor Pincock, a linguist, and Laura Rassbach, a computer scientist. Although we consider our findings to be preliminary, we would also like to emphasize the phenomenal rate of growth of the field of [[Natural Language Processing]]. We *will* be able to build the system of your dreams. We just need to hear them first. Please note that this paper is a draft. Please do not cite it. "Exploring the Feasibility of Automatically Rating Online Article Quality" http://whisper.colorado.edu/RassbachPincockMingus07.pdf /Brian Mingus en:User:Alterego <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alterego>

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Historical articles served rate?
by Reid Priedhorsky 02 May '07

02 May '07

Dear wiki-researchers, I am looking for historical articles-served rate for wikipedia. I know that historical logs don't exist, but I'm looking for ballpack figures on articles served per day (or whatever intervals available). Any suggestions on where to look would be most welcome. Many thanks, Reid

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