Pursuant to prior discussions about the need for a research
policy on Wikipedia, WikiProject Research is drafting a
policy regarding the recruitment of Wikipedia users to
participate in studies.
At this time, we have a proposed policy, and an accompanying
group that would facilitate recruitment of subjects in much
the same way that the Bot Approvals Group approves bots.
The policy proposal can be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Research
The Subject Recruitment Approvals Group mentioned in the proposal
is being described at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Subject_Recruitment_Approvals_Group
Before we move forward with seeking approval from the Wikipedia
community, we would like additional input about the proposal,
and would welcome additional help improving it.
Also, please consider participating in WikiProject Research at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Research
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Bryan Song
GroupLens Research
University of Minnesota
Hi!
I am doing a PhD on online civic participation project
(e-participation). Within my research, I have carried out a user
survey, where I asked how many people ever edited/created a page on a
Wiki. Now I would like to compare the results with the overall rate of
wiki editing/creation on country level.
I've found some country-level statistics on Wikipedia Statistics (e.g.
3,000 editors of Wikipedia articles in Italy) but data for UK and
France are not available since Wikipedia provides statistics by
languages, not by countries. I'm thus looking for statistics on UK and
France (but am also interested in alternative ways of measuring wiki
editing/creation in Sweden and Italy).
I would be grateful for any tips!
Sunny regards, Alina
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Alina ÖSTLING
PhD Candidate
European University Institute
www.eui.eu
This is more on the experimental side of "research" but I just
finished a prototype realtime visualization of tweets that reference
Wikipedia:
http://wikitweets.herokuapp.com/
wikitweets is a NodeJS [1] application that listens to the Twitter
Streaming API [2] for tweets that contain Wikipedia URLs, and then
looks up the relevant Wikipedia article using the API to ultimately
stream the information to the browser using SocketIO [3]. The most
amazing thing for me is seeing the application run comfortably (so
far) as a single process on Heroku with no attached database needed.
If you are curious the code is on GitHub [4].
The key to wikistream working at all is that Twitter allows you to
search and filter the stream using the original (unshorted) URL. So
for example a Tweet with the text:
Question of the Day: What’s the greatest seafaring movie ever?
Some suggestions: http://bit.ly/IqsE1e (But anything on water'll work)
#QOD [5]
Is discoverable with a search query like:
Question of the Day wikipedia.org [6]
Note "wikipedia.org" doesn't exist in the text of the original tweet
at all, since it has been shortened by bit.ly -- but it is still
searchable because Twitter appear to be unshortening and indexing
URLs. Anyhow, I thought I'd share here since this also relied heavily
on the various language Wikipedia APIs.
//Ed
[1] http://nodejs.org
[2] https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-api/methods
[3] http://socket.io
[4] https://github.com/edsu/wikitweets
[5] https://twitter.com/#!/EWeitzman/status/195520487357558784
[6] https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/Question%20of%20the%20Day%20wikipedi…
Hi folks -
Our research team at Carleton College has just launched a new tool that
recommends Wikipedia articles to edit based on news that you're
interested in. Most news sites have Twitter or RSS feeds that update as
new articles are published. wikiFeed (our tool) invites editors to put
in their preferred news sources' Twitter or RSS feeds - from politics to
pop culture, or whatever - and finds the most relevant Wikipedia
articles to edit based on that content.
We're trying to conduct a study on the how well wikiFeed works, and
would love it if you or students of yours could sign up, try it, and
continue using it if they find it useful. Can you pass the word along,
and/or try it yourself if you're interested?
Here's our website:
http://wikistudy.mathcs.carleton.edu
Thanks for your help!
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Dave
On Jul 31, 2012 1:43 AM, "LiAnna Davis" <ldavis(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 2:39 PM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ive asked for more info at
> >
> >
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikipedia_Education_Program_ev…
>
> I did my best to answer your question there.
Ive replied with more specific questions.
This research was mentioned because of bold statements in the annual plan,
and Tilman Bayer mentioned this blog post:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/19/wikipedia-education-program-stats-fal…
Which says U.S. Education Program users are three times better than other
users.
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JV
cross-posting reminder
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Tilman Bayer <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Analytics] IRC office hours with the Analytics team, Monday, July 30, 2012 at 19:00 UTC
> Date: July 30, 2012 8:59:05 AM PDT
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Reply-To: "A mailinglist for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics." <analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> just a reminder that this is taking place three hours from now
> (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&d…
> )
>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> you are cordially invited to the first ever IRC office hours of the
>> Foundation's recently formed Analytics team, taking place in
>> #wikimedia-analytics on Freenode on Monday, July 30 at 19:00 UTC /
>> noon PT (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&day=30&month=0…
>> ).
>>
>> It is an opportunity to ask all your analytics and statistics related
>> questions about Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects, in
>> particular regarding the Wikimedia Report Card and the upcoming
>> "Kraken" analytics platform. See also the blog post that the team just
>> published: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/07/25/meet-the-analytics-team/
>> , as well as https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics
>>
>> General information about IRC office hours is available at
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours .
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Tilman Bayer
>> Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications)
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>> IRC (Freenode): HaeB
>
>
>
> --
> Tilman Bayer
> Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications)
> Wikimedia Foundation
> IRC (Freenode): HaeB
>
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Sumana Harihareswara, 20/07/2012 23:38:
> On 07/19/2012 04:19 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
>> Sumana Harihareswara, 19/07/2012 22:08:
>>>> I noticed the jump in the June engineering report. Where does the big
>>>> difference compared to previous month's number come from?
>>>>
>>>> Nemo
>>>
>>> Now that we've re-calculated our numbers for the past few months, it's
>>> not really that big a jump -- see
>>> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-July/061649.html .
>>
>> Sure, I meant: what's the reason of the previous underreporting, if
>> you've found it?
>>
>> Nemo
>
> The previous numbers were from Ohloh, and I think Ohloh was still only
> taking into account Subversion statistics!
Is it still doing do and how can we get it fixed if not? It's a nice
resource for some things.
Nemo
cross-posting as it may be of interest to many on this list
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Tilman Bayer <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Wikitech-l] IRC office hours with the Analytics team, Monday, July 30, 2012 at 19:00 UTC
> Date: July 25, 2012 7:46:54 PM PDT
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
> Hi all,
>
> you are cordially invited to the first ever IRC office hours of the
> Foundation's recently formed Analytics team, taking place in
> #wikimedia-analytics on Freenode on Monday, July 30 at 19:00 UTC /
> noon PT (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&day=30&month=0…
> ).
>
> It is an opportunity to ask all your analytics and statistics related
> questions about Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects, in
> particular regarding the Wikimedia Report Card and the upcoming
> "Kraken" analytics platform. See also the blog post that the team just
> published: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/07/25/meet-the-analytics-team/
> , as well as https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics
>
> General information about IRC office hours is available at
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours .
>
> Regards,
> --
> Tilman Bayer
> Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications)
> Wikimedia Foundation
> IRC (Freenode): HaeB
>
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