A graph I just generated while messing around with the high-granularity
data we used in the monthly metrics readership report:
http://ironholds.org/misc/pageviews_trends.png
The thing I find really interesting about this is not the trend (mobile up,
desktop down. As Lehrer said, this we know from nothing!) but the patterns.
Mobile clusters far more tightly than desktop does.
I'm not sure what this means (desktop users are weird? There's a lot of bot
traffic we're not catching? That's my guess) but I thought it was pretty
and might provoke some hypothesising. So, here you go!
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Oliver Keyes
Research Analyst
Wikimedia Foundation
Jonathan Morgan wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 3:15 PM, James Salsman <jsalsman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I continue to maintain that editor attrition is due to the natural
>> transition from writing and completing new articles to maintaining old
>> articles, and have seen nothing to convince me otherwise or of the
>> validity of any alternative hypothesis.
>
> /me nods
>
> Sure, that's likely a huge factor. But do you really believe it's the
> *only* one?
It's certainly the only factor that I've ever seen supported by
convincing data. A larger problem is that people continue to advance
hypotheses which are easy to disprove. For example, people frequently
say that hostility became worse after 2007. I can't see any support
for that. If you don't believe me, go to a popular controversial
article, then click "history" and "oldest" e.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_warming&dir=prev&action=h…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Global_warming/Archive_3#Examine_effects…
What other hypotheses can be supported by any data at all?
I posted some data about the proportion of Wikipedia articles' edits
by year here:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/113215976889659570939/posts/5LLxgfCeaMa
I continue to maintain that editor attrition is due to the natural
transition from writing and completing new articles to maintaining old
articles, and have seen nothing to convince me otherwise or of the
validity of any alternative hypothesis.
Curious discussion about an editor/activity decline at serverfault:
http://meta.serverfault.com/questions/6701/server-fault-needs-professional-…
Feels a lot like 2009 discussions about Wikipedia in 2007/2008:
ballooning visits, editors focusing on rollback, sadness spreading, less
work getting done.
It seems however that every community and research about community is
going through the same issues and errors? Someone please give them
pointers to useful research, or something. :)
Nemo
Sometimes, researchers ask how to collect samples of wiki spam, e.g. to
train anti-vandalism tools like
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BayesianFilter
As a reminder, WikiTeam downloads most MediaWiki wikis on the web. Some
of those are predominantly made of spam. This dump, for instance, has a
2 GB XML (380 MB compressed) of 100 % spam. (Snowolf thinks the wiki has
never been used, other than by spambots.)
https://archive.org/details/wiki-server0net
Usually such dumps are easy to identify because 7z compresses them 10 or
100 times despite a low revisions/pages ratio. I can make lists if
there's interest.
Nemo
Call for Workshop Proposals
CICM 2015 - Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
July 13-17, 2015
The George Washington University, Washington, D.C , USA
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2015
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As computers and communications technology advance, greater
opportunities arise for intelligent mathematical computation. While
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offer a venue for discussing these areas and their synergy.
CICM has been held annually as a joint meeting since 2008, colocating
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Previous meetings have been held in Birmingham (U.K. 2008), Grand Bend
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This is a call for proposals for workshops to be held at CICM 2015,
which will be held in Washington D.C. (USA), July 13-17 next year.
The principal tracks of the 2015 meeting will be
Calculemus (Symbolic Computation and Mechanised Reasoning)
DML (Towards a Digital Mathematics Library)
MKM (Mathematical Knowledge Management)
Systems and Data
Some of the workshops that have been held at past CICM meetings are:
Automated Reasoning: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice
Compact Computer Algebra
Empirically Successful Automated Reasoning for Mathematics
Intelligent Proof Search
Mathematical user Interfaces
OpenMath
Pen-Based Mathematical Computation
Programming languages for Mechanized Mathematics Systems
SCIEnce
The Notion of Proof
Proposals for workshops to be held at CICM 2015 are solicited. Both
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Please provide the following information:
+ Workshop title.
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All proposals should be sent via email to
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for consideration by the CICM 2015 organizers:
Local Organization Chairs: Bruce Miller (NIST)
Abdou Youssef (GWU, USA)
General Program Chair: Manfred Kerber (U. Birmingham, UK)
Calculemus Track Chair: Jacques Carette (McMaster U., Canada)
DML Track Chair: Volker Sorge (U. Birmingham, UK)
MKM Track Chair: Cezary Kaliszyk (U. Innsbruck, Austria)
System & Data Chair: Florian Rabe (JUB, Germany)
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Important dates:
Deadline for proposal submissions: January 23, 2015
Acceptance/rejection notification: February 4, 2015
Workshop dates: July 13-17, 2015
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