"...This analysis will focus on characteristics of female participants on
English Wikipedia. The analysis will look to see if these participants are
representative of the female English speaking population. The analysis will
also explore, through some existing literature and in the conclusion, the
question of whether these potential differences could matter when planning
strategy to target the gender gap. …"
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mind_the_Gap
Sincerely,
Laura Hale
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Following up on last year's OSTP call for comments (which I also sent
to foundation-l), the US government is seeking public comment on more
technical questions (including policy, repository and standards
development) related to sharing federally-funded scholarly data and
publications. This process is relevant for shaping access to a major
source of free knowledge, and such open access issues are of general
interest to many of us. Comments are due in January.
-- phoebe
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The White House Office for Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has
released two Requests for Information, one on public access to digital
data resulting from federally funded scientific research and one on
public access to peer-reviewed scholarly publications resulting from
federally funded research. Responses are due January.
(1) "[T]his Request for Information (RFI) offers the opportunity for
interested individuals and organizations to provide recommendations on
approaches for ensuring long-term stewardship and encouraging broad
public access to unclassified digital data that result from federally
funded scientific research....Response Date: January 12, 2012...."
http://goo.gl/L1jn3
(2) "[T]his Request for Information (RFI) offers the opportunity for
interested individuals and organizations to provide recommendations on
approaches for ensuring long-term stewardship and broad public access
to the peer-reviewed scholarly publications that result from federally
funded scientific research....Response Date:
January 2, 2012...."
http://goo.gl/vTP18
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Dear Wiki Researchers,
During the summer we have worked on Wikihadoop [0], a tool that allows us
to create the diffs between two revisions of a Wiki article using Hadoop.
Now I am happy to announce that the entire diffdb is available for download
at http://http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/diffdb/
This dataset is based on the English Wikipedia April 2011 XML dump files.
The advantage of this dataset is that:
a) You can search for specific content being added / removed
b) Measure more accurately how much text an editor has added or removed
We are currently working on a Lucene-based application [1] that will allow
us to quickly search for specific strings being added or removed.
If you have any questions, then please let me know!
[0] https://github.com/whym/wikihadoop
[1] https://github.com/whym/diffindexer
Best regards,
Diederik van Liere
The fourth issue (October 2011) of the monthly Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2011-10-31
In this issue:
1. Wiki research beyond the English Wikipedia at WikiSym
2. Quality of drug information in Wikipedia
3. Predicting editor survival: The winners of the Wikipedia Participation Challenge
4. What it takes to become an admin: Insights from the Polish Wikipedia
5. High search engine rankings of Wikipedia articles found to be justified by quality
6. Attempts to predict the outcome of AfD discussions from an article's edit history
7. In brief
8. References
••• 21 items were covered in this issue •••
You can post suggestions and contributions for the next issue at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Newsletter
or by mail at researchnews(a)wikimedia.org
RSS feed for the newsletter: http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/research-2/wikimedia-research-newsletter/feed/
Best,
Dario
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Dario Taraborelli, PhD
Senior Research Analyst
Wikimedia Foundation
http://wikimediafoundation.orghttp://nitens.org/taraborelli