Wiki-research-l February 2012

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] WikiPapers: all the literature about wikis compiled
by Mathieu ONeil 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Hi Emir This is a great initiative, thanks for setting it up. I have a question: isn't it usual to list authors like this: Lastname Firstname? At present you have Firstname Lastname, as in: Adam S Alejandro L Angela B etc Is this appropriate - sorry for being awkward!? cheers, Mathieu > > Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:17:24 +0100 > From: emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> > To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities > <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] WikiPapers: all the literature about > wikis compiled in a... wiki > Message-ID: > <CAPgALA5Vf0d+drs0jvsE=u-9AiK=1NWXDqpbaCvk2fdpvWA+HA(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > After a week, some stuff has been improved in WikiPapers: > > * Lists have now graphs, timelines and tag clouds using Semantic Results > Formats MediaWiki extension: > http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/List_of_publications, > http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/List_of_authors, > http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/List_of_keywords and others > * You can export all the publications metadata in BibTex, CSV, JSON and RDF. > * Added 4 new social networks to share content > * Links [+] in every infobox field to improve usability and editability > * Milestones: 1200+ pages, 500+ publications > > If you have any suggestion, please, drop a line. > > 2012/2/6 emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> > > > You can now discover new colleagues and publications next to you using the > > country-by-country pages http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/Spain > > > > > > 2012/2/4 emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> > > > >> Playing with Semantic Maps http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/WikiSym > >> > >> No WikiSym in the southern hemisphere yet and Asia is alone too : ( > >> > > > > >

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 78, Issue 8
by W. Ben Towne 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

Hi Andrew, Thanks for the aggregate pageview count data link. I may eventually be interested in the MySQL parser and will follow up off-list if that later becomes needed. I don't necessarily need an IP address for registered users; the username (or IP if anon. user) would be sufficient to link view and rating. Ideally I'd transform the data into a few bits about viewed talk page/edited talk page/edited article, and maybe some overall measures of Wikipedia experience level, with the article feedback ratings that user left. >Its not my intention to discourage you, but have you thought about >looking at this in a more aggregate fashion (i.e., average daily >talk-page views vs. article quality rating)? -AW I would expect any correlation there to be "explained away" when accounting for article-page views; the relevant metric there would probably be a ratio between article and talk page views. I expect that ratio to be fairly uniform, perhaps a Gaussian distribution with relatively low variance, especially when partitioned by assessment class or "controversial" status. If there is any significant correlation between the ratio and the article quality ratings, that would be interesting but still not enough to make causal claims about how exposure to the discussion or the type of discussion impacts perceived article quality. We'll see what we can do with the information available- and if anybody has other ideas, please reply! Grace and peace, Ben -- W. Ben Towne wbt+wiki(a)cs.cmu.edu Computation, Organizations, & Society <http://www.cos.cs.cmu.edu/> Carnegie Mellon University > Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:43:39 -0500 > From: "Andrew G. West"<westand(a)cis.upenn.edu> > To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities > <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Pageviews and ratings > Message-ID:<4F318CFB.7010505(a)cis.upenn.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi Ben, > > If you are interested in "pageviews", the best available public resource is: > > [http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/] > > which provides an aggregate count of views for a page, by hour (and I > have a parser to store all this to a MySQLDB if it interests you). > However, this does not map views to a particular identifier (username or > IP address) or an exacting time-stamp, as you seem to desire. This might > be tough because: > > * The WMF treats the IP addresses of registered editors as confidential > information. IP address is used for "unregistered" editing. Regardless, > no data pertaining to simple access is available in a public-facing > fashion to my knowledge (and if it were, it would be trivial to > determine the IP addresses of registered editors) > > * Assuming you were allowed to view it, even for an hour's time, the > apache-like log of en:wp access would be LARGE. Consider that the terse > and aggregate format they make available is already on the order of > ~80MB/hour zipped. > > I am not terribly familiar with the article ratings tool and its > operation, but I assume it would incur the same privacy concerns. > Ratings data does seem to be accessible via the API: > > [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php] > > But there are no fields describing the user/IP that left that feedback. > > ----- > > Of course, I speak only of publicly available data. If you are able to > convince the administration to collect and confidentially share this > data, it would become more feasible (although you'd be trying to trace > user click-paths from a -ton- of data). > > Its not my intention to discourage you, but have you thought about > looking at this in a more aggregate fashion (i.e., average daily > talk-page views vs. article quality rating)? -AW > >

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WikiPapers: all the literature about wikis compiled in a... wiki
by emijrp 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

Hi all; I saw the discussion about creating a site to compile all the literature about wikis many times in this mailing list in the past. It was discussed in WikiSym 2011 too.[1] As a wikipedian interested on wiki research and as a predoctoral student, I need to make a state of the art. I have started WikiPapers[2] a wiki using Semantic MediaWiki, which is very powerful to establish relations between pages and to generate dynamic lists.[3] It doesn't only include papers, but info about tools and datasets, to replicate results. >From time to time, I post a backup link of the entire wiki in the mainpage, in the case you want a copy or a disaster occurs ; ) So nothing will be lost (some previous efforts in this area finished losing all the info). When WikiPapers grows a bit more, I guess that some cool stats about itself could be generated, as researchers by country, most studied topics (and those with little literature), biases between English Wikipedia analysis and other wikis, etc. I have added over 40 publications by now[4], you can subscribe to the RSS feeds[5] (the Firefox dynamic bookmark is great). I'm not sure if you want to join to the effort : ). You are more than welcome to add your publications, tools and datasets. Any suggestion would be great. Regards, emijrp [1] http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/WikiLit:_Collecting_the_Wiki_and_Wikipe… [2] http://wikipapers.referata.com [3] http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/List_of_survey_papers [4] http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/List_of_publications [5] http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/WikiPapers:RSS_feeds

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Budget for Summer of Research 2011
by En Pine 10 Feb '12

10 Feb '12

Because this subject was previously mentioned on Foundation-l and Research-l, I thought that those who are interested in research budgets might want to look at the information that’s now available here. Thanks to Steven Walling (WMF) for following up. I’m hoping that we’ll see more of this kind of information in the future so that the community can compare ROIs of proposed and completed projects. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikimedia_Summer_of_Research_2… Pine

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Save the date: Wikimedia & MediaWiki hackathon in Berlin, 1-3 June 2012
by Sumana Harihareswara 10 Feb '12

10 Feb '12

I invite you to the yearly Berlin hackathon. This is the premier event for the MediaWiki and Wikimedia technical community. We'll be hacking, designing, and socialising. Our goals for the event are to bring 100-150 people together, with lots of people who have not attended such events before. User scripts, gadgets, API use, Toolserver, Wikimedia Labs, mobile, structured data, templates -- if you are into any of these things, we want you to come! Some financial assistance will be available -- more details soon. This event will be hosted by Wikimedia Germany (WMDE) and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Thank you, WMDE! Dates: June 1-3 2012. Barely-started wiki page, no registration details yet: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Berlin_Hackathon_2012 . Organizers: me and WMDE's Nicole Ebber with assistance from Lydia Pintscher and Daniel Kinzler. Mark your calendars! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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English Wikipedia page ratings
by Gorbatai, Andreea 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Hi - Do you happen to have data on English Wikipedia article quality around mid-late 2008? I need the article name and the quality rating (by one WikiProject or more), I have some data on this from 2009 and I would like to get a sense how fast article quality evolves. Thank you very much! Best, Andreea ____________________________________________________________ Andreea D. Gorbatai | Doctoral Candidate PhD Program in Organizational Behavior/Sociology Harvard Business School/ Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

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Pageviews and ratings
by W. Ben Towne 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Hello, Does the English Wikipedia currently track pageviews? I'm doing a study looking at the page ratings, and how that is (or isn't) affected by a reader's understanding of the discussion process that went on behind the scenes. We'd really like to be able to know if the rater saw the talk page before they rated the article. As secondary goals, we'd like to see if they edited the article and/or talk page, and as a tertiary goal, we'd like to measure how familiar they are with Wikipedia and talk pages in general (e. g. do they even know Talk pages exist, are they a frequent discussant on them, etc.). If it is possible to get the information about ratings and pageviews (esp. common fields/links between them), can somebody guide me on how to? If the data is currently not collected but there is a way to start doing so (i. e. no philosophical objection or significant tech/performance issue b/c of the caching layers), who's the right person to work with for that? Thanks! Grace and peace, Ben -- W. Ben Towne wbt+wiki(a)cs.cmu.edu Computation, Organizations, & Society <http://www.cos.cs.cmu.edu/> Carnegie Mellon University > Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:51:56 -0700 > From: Dario Taraborelli<dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wiki-research-l] New data dumps available > To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities > <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID:<461E101F-0005-443C-96F8-7382E8463BD4(a)wikimedia.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > As part of its product development program, the Wikimedia Foundation's Tech Department will be releasing regular data dumps for all the features that are currently being implemented. The first weekly dumps from the Article Feedback Tool ? an experimental feature to engage readers to interact with Wikipedia's contents via a quality rating system [1] ? are available since this afternoon [2]. The latest datasets contain raw ratings data collected each week from a random sample of 100K articles of the English Wikipedia. More datasets will be released in the coming weeks as we deploy new features. > > Over the summer a new series of datasets produced by the participants in the Wikimedia Summer of Research [3] will be released and an open data repository will be announced to host and permanently identify these datasets. Further details on this program and WMF's open data policy will follow on the Foundation's blog and on this list. > > Dario > > [1]http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback > [2]http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Data > [3]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_Summer_of_Research_2011 > > > -- > Dario Taraborelli, PhD > Senior Research Analyst > Wikimedia Foundation > > http://wikimediafoundation.org > http://nitens.org/taraborelli >

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 71, Issue 2
by W. Ben Towne 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

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"Baglama" statistics/metrics/analytics now shinier
by Sumana Harihareswara 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

Magnus Manske just sent this message to another list and I thought you'd want to know. Baglama is a tool to "View counts for pages using Commons images in certain category trees." It's especially useful for GLAM institutions: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation -- original message -- Due to popular demand, my "baglama" tool now has charts for all projects on its main page, and a project chart on the project page, with the selected month highlighted. The bars are relative to the maximum monthly view counter in the project. Enjoy. http://toolserver.org/~magnus/baglama.php Magnus

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WG: [Air-L] Call for Papers : Academic Research into Wikipedia
by René König 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

FYI -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] Im Auftrag von Eduard Aibar Puentes Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. Februar 2012 12:58 An: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Betreff: [Air-L] Call for Papers : Academic Research into Wikipedia The Journal Digithum: The Humanities in the Digital Age has published a call for papers on Academic Research into Wikipedia: http://cv.uoc.edu/~debats/digithum-call-for-papers-november11-en.pdf Deadline for submission of originals: 1 March 2012 Publication date: May 2012 Eduard Aibar Estudis d'Arts i Humanitats Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Av. Tibidabo, 39-43 08035 Barcelona Spain http://www.uoc.edu/webs/eaibar http://arts-humanitats.uoc.edu Tel. (00 34) 93 253 7569 Fax (00 34) 93 417 6495

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