Wiki-research-l June 2013

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Wikipedia Research policy
by song＠cs.umn.edu 14 Jul '23

14 Jul '23

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 -- Bryan Song GroupLens Research University of Minnesota

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Statistics on wiki page editing/creation by country?
by alina ostling 13 Sep '14

13 Sep '14

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 -- Alina ÖSTLING PhD Candidate European University Institute www.eui.eu

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WikiDashboard down - anyone knows how to contact people at PARC who developed it?
by Piotr Konieczny 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

For the last week or so I am getting the following error when trying to use the http://wikidashboard.appspot.com/ tool: "403: User account expired. The page you requested is hosted by the Toolserver user wiki_researcher, whose account has expired. Toolserver user accounts are automatically expired if the user is inactive for over six months. To prevent stale pages remaining accessible, we automatically block requests to expired content. If you think you are receiving this page in error, or you have a question, please contact the owner of this document: wiki_researcher [at] toolserver [dot] org. (Please do not contact Toolserver administrators about this problem, as we cannot fix it---only the Toolserver account owner may renew their account.)" I've tried contacting the owner, and send an email to PARC <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_%28company%29> (it's their project, per the logo seen at the project page ) through their web form, but so far - nothing. Can anyone help to contact them? The tool is useful not only for research (I've used and I am sure so have others here); it is also one of the tools used by Good Article reviewers (and linked from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Good_article_tools) Why we allow toolserver tools used by the community to expire in such a confusing way is beyond me. -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus

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WikiPapers has now over 1,000 publications
by emijrp 23 Oct '13

23 Oct '13

Hi all; WikiPapers has reached recently the 1,000 publications milestone.[1] Looks like the publication rate peaked in 2009 and has plateaued in the last 3 years. I continue adding more data... but with little help. Don't you like editing wikis? ; ) Regards, emijrp [1] http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/List_of_publications -- Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain) Projects: AVBOT <http://code.google.com/p/avbot/> | StatMediaWiki<http://statmediawiki.forja.rediris.es> | WikiEvidens <http://code.google.com/p/wikievidens/> | WikiPapers<http://wikipapers.referata.com> | WikiTeam <http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/> Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/

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Office hour with WMF researchers
by ENWP Pine 23 Sep '13

23 Sep '13

Hi everyone, WMF researchers have agreed to participate in an office hour about WMF research projects and methodologies. The currently scheduled participants are: * Aaron Halfaker, Research Analyst (contractor) * Jonathan Morgan, Research Strategist (contractor) * Evan Rosen, Data Analytics Manager, Global Development * Haitham Shammaa, Contribution Research Manager * Dario Taraborelli, Senior Research Analyst, Strategy We'll meet on IRC in #wikimedia-office on April 22 at 1800 UTC. Please join us. Pine

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A wiki search engine
by emijrp 05 Aug '13

05 Aug '13

Hi all; I'm starting a new project, a wiki search engine. It uses MediaWiki, Semantic MediaWiki and other minor extensions, and some tricky templates and bots. I remember Wikia Search and how it failed. It had the mini-article thingy for the introduction, and then a lot of links compiled by a crawler. Also something similar to a social network. My project idea (which still needs a cool name) is different. Althought it uses an introduction and images copied from Wikipedia, and some links from the "External links" sections, it is only a start. The purpose is that community adds, removes and orders the results for each term, and creates redirects for similar terms to avoid duplicates. Why this? I think that Google PageRank isn't enough. It is frequently abused by farmlinks, SEOs and other people trying to put their websites above. Search "Shakira" in Google for example. You see 1) Official site, 2) Wikipedia 3) Twitter 4) Facebook, then some videos, some news, some images, Myspace. It wastes 3 or more results in obvious nice sites (WP, TW, FB). The wiki search engine puts these sites in the top, and an introduction and related terms, leaving all the space below to not so obvious but interesting websites. Also, if you search for "semantic queries" like "right-wing newspapers" in Google, you won't find real newspapers but "people and sites discussing about ring-wing newspapers". Or latex and LaTeX being shown in the same results pages. These issues can be resolved with disambiguation result pages. How we choose which results are above or below? The rules are not fully designed yet, but we can put official sites in the first place, then .gov or .edu domains which are important ones, and later unofficial websites, blogs, giving priority to local language, etc. And reaching consensus. We can control aggresive spam with spam blacklists, semi-protect or protect highly visible pages, and use bots or tools to check changes. It obviously has a CC BY-SA license and results can be exported. I think that this approach is the opposite to Google today. For weird queries like "Albert Einstein birthplace" we can redirect to the most obvious results page (in this case Albert Einstein) using a hand-made redirect or by software (some little change in MediaWiki). You can check a pretty alpha version here http://www.todogratix.es (only Spanish by now sorry) which I'm feeding with some bots. I think that it is an interesting experiment. I'm open to your questions and feedback. Regards, emijrp -- Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain) Projects: AVBOT <http://code.google.com/p/avbot/> | StatMediaWiki<http://statmediawiki.forja.rediris.es> | WikiEvidens <http://code.google.com/p/wikievidens/> | WikiPapers<http://wikipapers.referata.com> | WikiTeam <http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/> Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/

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The Wikimedia Research Newsletter 3(5) is out
by Dario Taraborelli 03 Aug '13

03 Aug '13

The May 2013 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2013/May In this issue: • 1 Motivations to contribute to the Persian Wikipedia • 2 Science eight times more popular on the Spanish Wikipedia than on the English Wikipedia? • 3 In brief • Winning and losing argument patterns in deletion debates • Why English Wikinews rejects submissions • Wikipedia as a discussion forum for Malaysian students • Using Wikipedia to predict the stock market • Main NPOV concerns in articles about corporations: Promotional language and inclusion of criticism • "Gangnam Style" pageview trends • 4 References ••• 9 publications were covered in this issue ••• Thanks to: Piotr Konieczny, Aaron Halfaker, Taha Yasseri, Daniel Mietchen for contributing Dario Taraborelli and Tilman Bayer -- Wikimedia Research Newsletter https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/ * Follow us on Twitter/Identi.ca: @WikiResearch * Receive this newsletter by mail: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/research-newsletter * Subscribe to the RSS feed: http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/research-2/wikimedia-research-newsletter/feed/

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WikiSym 2012 papers?!
by Taha Yasseri 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Dear All, May be it's not the best place to ask, but any of you has any idea why WikiSym 2012 papers are not available on the site any more? Is that only me who cannot access? are they moved to some other places? few examples: http://orga.wikisym.org/ws2012/bin/download/Main/Program/p12wikisym2012.pdf http://wikisym.org/ws2012/bin/download/Main/Program/p12wikisym2012.pdf http://orga.wikisym.org/ws2012/bin/download/Main/Program/p10wikisym2012.pdf http://orga.wikisym.org/ws2012/bin/download/Main/Program/p8wikisym2012.pdf bests, Taha -- Dr Taha Yasseri http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/yasseri/ Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St.Giles Oxford OX1 3JS Tel.01865-287229 ------------------------------------------- Latest Article: Phys. Rev. Lett. Opinions, Conflicts, and Consensus: Modeling Social Dynamics in a Collaborative Environment<http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v110/i8/e088701> Non-technical review: University of Oxford, Mathematical model 'describes' how online conflicts are resolved<http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2013/130220.html>

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The Wikimedia Research Newsletter 3(6) is out
by Tilman Bayer 01 Jul '13

01 Jul '13

The June 2013 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2013/June In this issue: 1 "The most controversial topics in Wikipedia: a multilingual and geographical analysis" 2 Sockpuppet evidence from automated writing style analysis 3 Adjusting automatic quality flaw predictors by topic areas 4 Briefly 5 References ••• 9 publications were covered in this issue ••• Thanks to Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia and Taha Yasseri for contributing Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli -- Wikimedia Research Newsletter https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/ * Follow us on Twitter/Identi.ca: @WikiResearch * Receive this newsletter by mail: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/research-newsletter * Subscribe to the RSS feed: http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/research-2/wikimedia-research-newsletter/feed/ -- Tilman Bayer Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB

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How to run a query about user contributions
by Piotr Konieczny 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

Dear all, I am trying to gather some data for a new paper, but I wonder if there is a more efficient way of doing so than by using Wikipedia Special:Contribs I have a list of editors, whose edits I'd like to analyze and get numbers on their contributions by mainspace, and to specific groups of pages (such as Wikipedia:Arbitration and its subpages, for example). In other words, for a defined group of users, I would like to know if they have ever contributed to an arbitration page, and if they did, how many edits did they make. I am assuming this wouldn't be that difficult for somebody who knows how to run the queries on the Wikipedia database, but I have never been able to develop enough of a coding skill to do so. Still, if people could direct me to a page with instructions on how to run a database query, perhaps I can try to learn. THat is, if they have been made more non-CS person friendly, as two or so years ago when I last research this topic they were, IMHO, still beyond the means of a non-coder to deal with. Alternatively, I can consider paying someone to run a number of such queries for me, since I now even have a real research budget :) -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus

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