danah boyd's embarking on a new project:
"Henry Jenkins, Mimi Ito, and I have embarked on an interesting project
for Polity. Through a series of dialogues, we're hoping to produce a
book that interrogates our different thoughts regarding participatory
culture. The goal is to unpack our differences and agreements and
identify some of the challenges that we see going forward. ....
And here's where we're hoping that some of our fans and critics might be
willing to provoke us to think more deeply.
What questions do you have regarding participatory culture that you
would hope that we would address?
What criticisms of our work would you like to offer for us to
reflect on?
What do you think that we fail to address in our work that you wish
we would consider?...."
If you have suggestions for them, you can post them as comments at:
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2012/08/02/participatory-culture-…
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
Dear all,
we have been trying to get some data for analyses of a test in the
Portuguese Wikipedia from april 12 to July 12. During this period,
it's been given the option to reverters of also blocking vandals to
support admins and make reverts less necessary.
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipédia_Discussão:Votações/Reversores_bloque…
We haven't been able to get them so far. Would anyone have ideas on
how we can get it? Or is anyone in this list able to do it?
It's been almost one month since the test was finished and they wanted
to discuss the results of the test in a data driven fashion, but since
it's been quite a while they're about to make decisions without being
able to analyse data.
Does anyone can help us with this?
Data required would be:
Amount of reverts from January 12 to April 11 - 2012
Amount of reverts from April 12 to July 12 - 2012
Amount of reverts from January 12 to March 11 - 2011
Amount of reverts from April 12 to July 12 - 2011
Amount of edits made by reverts and admins in the same periods
Amount - total edits (general) in the same periods
If possible, data from 2010 would give us a better idea of this history
Thank you so much!
Best regards
Oona
Forwarding from Otavio, who I don't think is on this list (yet)...
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Otavio Louvem <otavio1981.wiki(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] PT-WP page view spike
To: Maryana Pinchuk <mpinchuk(a)wikimedia.org>
Cc: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <
wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Fabio Azevedo <fazedo(a)gmail.com>
Maryana,
April Campaign was in 2011. We didn't change sitnotice[1], mainpage[2]
and despite editnotice was changed right before those view's annomaly,
we didn't put any new link[3].
Regards,
Otavio
[1]
https://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sitenotice&action=hist…
[2]
https://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikip%C3%A9dia:P%C3%A1gina_princ…
[3]
http://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Editnotice-0&action=his…
2012/8/6, Maryana Pinchuk <mpinchuk(a)wikimedia.org>:
> This was before the April
> campaign,<
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_editor_engagement_projects#Portugues…
>
> right?
> Given that these were three new user help related pages, I agree with
> Haitham that it was probably a brief main page link or template change
> (most likely to the default welcome or warning message). I'd also check
the
> history of the mediawiki message inserted into the edit window on the main
> page -- that could also explain it.
>
> Was someone running a secret experiment? :)
>
> M
>
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Haitham Shammaa
> <hshammaa(a)wikimedia.org>wrote:
>
>> This is a sort of a frequently occurring phenomena.
>>
>> One recent examples from the english Wikipedia :
>> http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Help:Contents/Resources_and_lists
>> http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Help:Contents/Resources_and_lists
>> http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Help:Contents/Communication
>> http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Help:Contents/Browsing_Wikipedia
>>
>> If we excluded the possibility of failure during data acquisition or data
>> processing, it is very hard to predict the exact reasons, specially on
>> large Wikimedia projects due to the high complexity of the site
>> structure,
>> and the continues changes taking place on it.
>>
>> One of the general reasons for this could be adding a link at a highly
>> accessed page (e.g. main page, welcome template, mediawiki page .. etc)
>> or
>> making the existing links more visible or emphasized, and then reverting
>> these change after a few days.
>>
>> Wish this was helpful.
>>
>> --
>> Haitham Shammaa
>> Contribution Research Manager
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Jessie Wild <jwild(a)wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello researchers near and far -
>>>
>>> I was notified by some people from the Portuguese Wikipedia community
>>> about an anomaly in the page view statistics between May 30-June 15 for
>>> several of their help pages:
>>>
>>> -
>>> Ajuda:Página_principal<
http://stats.grok.se/pt/latest90/Ajuda:P%C3%A1gina_principal>
>>> (Help:Contents)[1]
>>> -
>>> Wikipédia:Página_de_testes<
http://stats.grok.se/pt/latest90/Wikip%C3%A9dia:P%C3%A1gina_de_testes
>(Wikipedia:Sandbox)[2]
>>> -
>>> Wikipédia:Boas-vindas<
http://stats.grok.se/pt/latest90/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Boas-vindas>
>>> (Wikipedia:Welcoming
>>> Committee/Welcome to Wikipedia)[3]
>>>
>>> There is not a matching increase in number of page views of the main
>>> page[4], nor is there a similar spike in other language projects.
>>>
>>> They are wondering if anyone has any thoughts on why this could be, or
>>> suggestions on ways they could answer some further questions. Has anyone
>>> seen something like this previously?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for the help!
>>> Jessie
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] http://stats.grok.se/pt/latest90/Ajuda:P%C3%A1gina_principal
>>> [2]
>>> http://stats.grok.se/pt/latest90/Wikip%C3%A9dia:P%C3%A1gina_de_testes
>>> [3] http://stats.grok.se/pt/latest90/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Boas-vindas
>>> [4]
>>> http://stats.grok.se/pt/latest90/Wikip%C3%A9dia:P%C3%A1gina_principal
>>>
>>> --
>>> *Jessie Wild
>>> Global Development, Manager
>>> Wikimedia Foundation*
>>> *
>>> *
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> Maryana Pinchuk
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>
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Abs,
Otavio
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The July 2012 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2012-07-30
In this issue:
1 Modeling social dynamics in a collaborative environment
2 How Wikipedia articles benefit from the availability of public domain resources
3 Annotating field notes via Wikisource
4 Quality of medical information in Wikipedia
5 Emotions and dialogue
6 Editor collaboration patterns
7 Why does the number of Wikipedia readers rise while the number of editors doesn't?
8 Briefly
9 References
••• 12 publications were covered in this issue •••
Thanks to Daniel Mietchen, Junkie.dolphin, Jodi.a.schneider, Adler.fa, OrenBochman, Benjamin Mako Hill for contributing
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