Wiki-research-l March 2014

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Fwd: [Wmfall] Next research & data showcase: tomorrow at 11.30
by Oliver Keyes 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Beginning in 10 minutes :) public stream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bozyc1z25aQ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> Date: 18 March 2014 20:42 Subject: [Wmfall] Next research & data showcase: tomorrow at 11.30 To: "wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org Staff" <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org> The next Research & Data showcase<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Research_and_Data/Showcase> will be live-streamed tomorrow at 11.30 PT (the streaming link will be posted on the list a few minutes before the showcase starts. Those of you who are in the SF office can join us in Yongle). This month's program is below, we look forward to seeing you. Dario *Metrics standardization *(Dario) In this talk I'll present the most recent updates on our work on participation metrics and discuss the goals of the Editor Engagement Vital Signs project. *Wikipedia's rise and decline *(Aaron) In Halfaker et al. (2013) we present data that show that several changes the Wikipedia community made to manage quality and consistency in the face of a massive growth in participation have ironically crippled the very growth they were designed to manage. Specifically, the restrictiveness of the encyclopedia's primary quality control mechanism and the algorithmic tools used to reject contributions are implicated as key causes of decreased newcomer retention. _______________________________________________ Wmfall mailing list Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall -- Oliver Keyes Product Analyst Wikimedia Foundation

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Wikimedia monthly research & data showcase: live streamed tomorrow
by Dario Taraborelli 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

The next Research & Data showcase will be live-streamed tomorrow Wed 3/19 at 11.30 PT. The streaming link will be posted on the lists a few minutes before the showcase starts and you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. We look forward to seeing you! Dario Metrics standardization (Dario Taraborelli) In this talk I'll present the most recent updates on our work on participation metrics and discuss the goals of the Editor Engagement Vital Signs project. Wikipedia's rise and decline (Aaron Halfaker) In Halfaker et al. (2013) we present data that show that several changes the Wikipedia community made to manage quality and consistency in the face of a massive growth in participation have ironically crippled the very growth they were designed to manage. Specifically, the restrictiveness of the encyclopedia's primary quality control mechanism and the algorithmic tools used to reject contributions are implicated as key causes of decreased newcomer retention.

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identifying Wikipedia article topics
by Amir E. Aharoni 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

Hallo, Is there any known easy way to classify Wikipedia articles into a relatively small number of types? By "relatively small" I mean no more than twenty, and by "types" I mean things that are intuitively clear to readers, for example: * Biographies * Articles about scientific phenomena (can be sub-grouped to math, astronomy, physics, geology, medicine) * Articles about works of art (paintings, movies, books, records, statues) * Articles about places * Articles about historical events * Articles about biological species * Articles that mostly present data, such as demography or results of competitions (sports, elections, game shows) There are a few more, but not much. I hope that you get the idea. We have categories, but I'm not sure that it's easy to use categories for such things because of the very loose category structure. For example, [[Eurovision 2007]] is somewhere under [[Category:Humans]], even though it's not an article about a human. Such information can be useful for study about the types of articles that different people write. In particular, I thought about it in the context of analyzing the types of articles that people are translating now (manually) and will translate in the future using the ContentTranslation, which is in its early stages of development. Thanks, -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

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Community Data Science Workshops @ UW Seattle
by Jonathan T Morgan 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

Greetings, Wikiresearchers! On three Saturdays in April and May, Benjamin Mako Hill and I will be running day-long project-based workshops at the University of Washington in Seattle. Anyone can participate--you don't have to be affiliated with UW. Although you do have to be physically present in Seattle :( The workshops are for anyone interested in learning how to use programming and data science tools to ask and answer questions about online communities like Wikipedia, free and open source software, Twitter and civic media. The workshops are for people with no previous programming experience. We hope to bring together researchers and participants in online communities. The goal is that, after the three workshops, participants will be able to use data to produce numbers, hypothesis tests, tables, and graphical visualizations to answer questions like: - Are new contributors to an article in Wikipedia sticking around longer or contributing more than people who joined last year? - Who are the most active or influential users of a particular Twitter hashtag? - Are people who participated in a Wikipedia outreach event staying involved? How do they compare to people that joined the project outside of the event? Details and dates are online here: http://networkcollectiv.es/2014/03/09/community-data-science-workshops/ If you are interested in participating, fill out our registration form linked from the URL above before March 26th. If you already know how to program (in Python), it would be awesome if you would volunteer as a mentor! Being a mentor will involve working with participants and talking them through the challenges they encounter in programming. No special preparation is required. If you are interested, send me an email. -- Jonathan T. Morgan Lecturer, Human Centered Design & Engineering University of Washington jmo25(a)uw.edu

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Maps based on Wikidata data
by Gerard Meijssen 16 Mar '14

16 Mar '14

Hoi, In the latest iteration of the "Reasonator", you will find the option to see what items exist in a radius of 15 km around the current item. Obviously, you will find only those items that have a geo-coordinate. There are however many of them :) They are everything from cities to amusement parks like Disney land and its rides. Essentially the functionality shows what is the result of a query. The current maps are based on OpenStreetMap and Wikidata. This is a first iteration of this functionality so we love to hear from you what more and what else you would like us to do with maps and Wikidata. Thanks, GerardM http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/03/reasonator-cambridge-revisited-i…

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Request for statistics: effectiveness of WikiLove
by ENWP Pine 15 Mar '14

15 Mar '14

Also remember that barnstars and PUAs existed before Wikilove and continue to be awarded without using Wikilove. Pine

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2014 ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'14) - Still accepting poster and data challenge submissions!
by Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

***Apologies for duplicate postings*** The paper deadline for the 2014 ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'14) has passed. We are thrilled to announce that we received 160 paper submissions! Paper notifications are scheduled for 13 April. We are, however, still accepting late-breaking extended abstract submissions (2 pages) for posters and "lightning talk" presentations, until 23 March. For details, see http://www.websci14.org/# call-for-papers-and-posters Also, the Data Visualization Challenge is accepting submissions through 15 April, and is offering $1000 in prizes! For details, see: http://websci14.org/# call-for-data-visualization- challenge. ACM Web Science 2014 will be held 23-26 June 2014 at Indiana University, Bloomington. Further information available at http://www.websci14.org/. For questions, contact webscience-14- organizers(a)googlegroups.com. -- Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia ✎ 919 E 10th ∙ Bloomington 47408 IN ∙ USA ☞ http://www.inf.usi.ch/phd/ciampaglia/ ✆ +1 812 287-3471 ✉ gciampag(a)indiana.edu

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Fwd: 12th March - P2Pvalue: Launch & Data Jam of the Directory of Commons Based Peer Production
by Mayo Fuster Morell 11 Mar '14

11 Mar '14

Hoping this activity is of interest of people of this list. Thank you to help spread the word! Mayo (ENGLISH, CATALAN, SPANISH) Launch and Data Jam of the P2Pvalue Directory of Commons Based Peer Production Join us Wednesday March 12th for the launch and Data Jam (hackathon) of the P2Pvalue Directory of Commons Based Peer Production Commons Based Peer Production (CBPP) means collaborative production and sharing of resources among peers under commons settings. From the initial cases, such as Wikipedia and FLOSS, recently there has been an expansion to other areas of activity, such as citizen science, product design, management of common spaces and open data sources. The mission of the Directory of Commons Based Peer Production is mapping the diffusion and hybridization of peer production by collecting and typifying digital platforms or projects that are Commons Based Peer Productions (CBPP). The directory currently holds more than 300 cases of CBPP such as platforms for collective research, citizen journalism, peer to peer financing, and hackerspaces. Projects that produce software, hardware, texts, images, videos, music or sounds, collaborative research projects that give access to the data, and produce resources for public use. The directory serves as a valuable tool for anyone interested on CBPP such as "commoners", "prosumers" or researchers. It also aims to give visibility to the CBPP and support the networking among CBPP projects. The directory itself is based on collaborative production. Join the collaborative mapping of CBPP: Reuse and remix the data, insert new cases, send your feedback on the directory design, etc. The data contributed to the directory is published with an open license and accessible through our API or for downloaded in various formats. To celebrate the launch we will be hosting a P2Pvalue Data Jam 12th March 2014, a collective effort to populate the directory and document as many examples of CBPP as possible. Additionally, on the day we will be having a live streamed program with introduction to the P2Pvalue project, and with instruction on how to use the directory and discussion around CBPP issues. Starting at 11:30 am (+1 GMT), Mayo Fuster Morell (IGOPnet.cc) will talk about the P2Pvalue research on delimitation criteria of CBPP and the conditions that favor CBPP. (12:34h) David Rozas (University of Surrey) will explain the directory from a technical perspective. (13:45h) Antonio Tenorio (UCM) will present Kune, a decentralized platform also resulting from the P2Pvalue project. (17h) There will be presentations of cases such as Guifi.net (by Jaume Barcelo and Pedro) and (18h) Goteo.org (by Maria G. Perulero). Finally (19h), there will be a discussion group on "Analyzing value in CBPP experiences" moderated by Mayo Fuster Morell and with interventions by Michel Bauwens (P2PFoundation), Marco Berlinguer (IGOPnet.cc) and Marcos García (Medialab Prado). How to join the Data Jam (12th March 2014)? Directory: http://directory.p2pvalue.eu<http://directory.p2pvalue.eu/> Live streaming link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRE7D1CHamQ Twitter: @P2Pvalue Hash tags #P2PDATAJAM and #P2PVALUE Local Data Jam: Local Data Jam will take place in Barcelona, Madrid, and Quito (timetable and physical address availeble here http://p2pdatajam.titanpad.com/1<http://p2pdatajam.titanpad.com/1>) Organize a local Data Jam also if you like around your place! <http://p2pdatajam.titanpad.com/1> Mailing list: http://lists.p2pvalue.eu/wws/info/datajam The directory development is supported by the European Project <http://www.p2pvalue.eu/> P2Pvalue.eu (Techno-social platform for sustainable models and value generation in commons-based peer production in the Future Internet), and promoted by a consortium of organizations including P2Pvalue project partner members (mainly: IGOPnet.cc (conceptualization and coordination of CBPP Directory), University of Surrey (technical development of the Directory) and P2P Foundation (dissemination of the Directory)), and the contribution of the other partners of the project GRASIA - Complutense University of Madrid, CNRS and University of Milan), and the support of the Spanish Chapter of Open Knowledge Foundation, among others. The P2P Data Jam Team are (coordination) Ruben Martinez (IGOPnet.cc) ruben(a)leyseca.net<mailto:ruben@leyseca.net> @RubenMartinez David Rozas (University of Surrey) david.rozas(a)gmail.com<mailto:david.rozas@gmail.com> @drozas and Kevin Flanagan (P2P Foundation) kevin(a)p2pvalue.eu<mailto:kevin@p2pvalue.eu> @flgnk Plus, Mayo Fuster Morell (IGOPnet.cc) mayo.fuster(a)eui.eu<mailto:mayo.fuster@eui.eu> @lilaroja Jorge Salcedo (IGOPnet.cc) @jorgelsalcedo and Antonio Tapiador (UCM) atapiador(a)ucm.es<mailto:atapiador@ucm.es> @atapiador (CATALA) Llançament i Data Jam (hackathon) del Directori de producció col·laborativa entre iguals procomú - 12 març 2014 La producció col·laborativa entre iguals procomú (CBPP) és una modalitat emergent de producció i compartició de recursos entre iguals sota una lògica procomú. A partir dels casos inicials, com ara Wikipedia i el programari lliure, recentment ha hagut una expansió de la CBPP a altres àrees d'activitat, com ara la ciència ciutadana, disseny de productes, la gestió dels espais comuns i les fonts de dades obertes. La missió del Directori de CBPP és el mapatge de la difusió i la hibridació de la producció entre iguals mitjançant la recopilació i tipificant de plataformes digitals o projectes. El directori té actualment més de 300 casos de CBPP com ara plataformes per a la investigació col·lectiva, periodisme ciutadà, finançament P2P i hackerspaces. Projectes que produeixen de forma col·laborativa i oberta programari, maquinaria, textos, imatges, vídeos, o música, que donen accés a les dades generades i produeixen recursos per a l'ús públic. El directori serveix com una eina valuosa per a qualsevol persona interessada en la CBPP , com ara "comuners", " prosumidors" o persones investigadores. El directori així mateix vol ajudar a donar visibilitat a la CBPP i donar suport al enxarxament entre projectes CBPP. El directori en si es basa en producció col·laborativa. Uneix-te a la cartografia col·laborativa de CBPP : Reutilitzant i remesclant les dades, inserint nous casos, enviant els teus suggeriments sobre el disseny del directori, unint-se com a organització al consorci promotor del directori, etc La base de dades del directori es publica amb una llicència oberta i les dades estan accessible a través d'API o descarregables en diversos formats. Per celebrar el llançament del directori el 12 de Març celebrarem un Data Jam (hackathon), un esforç col·lectiu per poblar el directori amb el major nombre de casos de CBPP possible. A més d'incorporar casos al directori, durant el dia celebrarem un programa via streaming en directe. Iniciant a les (11:30h) Mayo Fuster Morell (IGOPnet.cc) presentarà la investigació P2Pvalue sobre els criteris de delimitació de la CBPP i les condicions que l'afavoreixen . (12:34h) David Rozas (Universitat de Surrey) explicarà el directori des d'una perspectiva tècnica. (13:45 h) Antonio Tenorio ( UCM ) presentarà Kune, una plataforma descentralitzada on també esta contribuint el projecte P2Pvalue. (17h) Hi haurà presentacions de casos com Guifi.net (per Jaume Barceló i Pedro) i (18h) Goteo.org (per Maria G. Perulero). Finalment (19h), celebrarem un debat sobre el "dimensions de valor a les experiències de CBPP" moderat per Mayo Fuster Morell i amb intervencions de Michel Bauwens (P2PFoundation), Marco Berlinguer (IGOPnet.cc) i Marcos García (Medialab Prado). Com unir-se al Data Jam (12 de març 2014)? Directori: http://directory.p2pvalue.eu Enllaç de streaming en viu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRE7D1CHamQ Twitter: @ P2Pvalue hashtag # P2PDATAJAM # P2PVALUE Data Jam locals: Data Jam locals es duran a terme a Barcelona, Madrid i Quito (horari i adreça física de les trobades accessible aquí http://p2pdatajam.titanpad.com/1). Organitza un Data Jam a la teva localitat també si vols! Llista de correu: http://lists.p2pvalue.eu/wws/info/datajam El desenvolupament del directori es porta a terme amb el suport del Projecte Europeu P2Pvalue.eu (Plataforma Tecno - social pel desenvolupament de models sostenibles i la generació de valor en la producció entre iguals basada en el procomu a l'Internet del Futur), i promogut per un consorci d'organitzacions, entre aquestes, els socis del projecte P2Pvalue (principalment: IGOPnet.cc (conceptualització i coordinació del CBPP), Universitat de Surrey (desenvolupament tècnic del Directori) i la Fundació P2P (difusió del Directori)) , i el suport dels altres socis GRASIA - Universitat Complutense de Madrid, CNRS i la Universitat de Milà), i la col·laboració del Capítol Espanyol de la Fundació pel coneixement obert, entre d'altres. L'Equip del Data Jam esta compost per (coordinació) Rubén Martínez (IGOPnet.cc) ruben(a)leyseca.net<mailto:ruben@leyseca.net> @RubenMartinez David Rozas (Universitat de Surrey) david.rozas(a)gmail.com<mailto:david.rozas@gmail.com> @drozas i Kevin Flanagan (Fundació P2P) kevin(a)p2pvalue.eu<mailto:kevin@p2pvalue.eu> @flgnk Amb el suport de Mayo Fuster Morell (IGOPnet.cc) mayo.fuster(a)eui.eu<mailto:mayo.fuster@eui.eu> @lilaroja Jorge Salcedo (IGOPnet.cc) @jorgelsalcedo i Antonio Tapiador (UCM) atapiador(a)ucm.es<mailto:atapiador@ucm.es> @ atapiador (CASTELLANO) Lanzamiento y Data Jam (hackathon) del Directorio de producción colaborativa entre iguales procomún - 12 de Marzo 2014 La producción colaborativa entre iguales procomún (CBPP) es una modalidad emergente de producción y compartición de recursos entre iguales bajo una lógica procomún. A partir de los casos iniciales, tales como Wikipedia y el software libre, recientemente ha habido una expansión de la CBPP a otras áreas de actividad, tales como la ciencia ciudadana, diseño de productos, la gestión de los espacios comunes y las fuentes de datos abiertas. La misión del Directorio de CBPP es el mapeo de la difusión y la hibridación de la producción entre iguales mediante la recopilación y tipificando de plataformas digitales o proyectos. El directorio tiene actualmente más de 300 casos de CBPP como plataformas para la investigación colectiva, periodismo ciudadano, financiamiento P2P y hackerspaces. Proyectos que producen de forma colaborativa y abierta software, hardware, textos, imágenes, vídeos, música o sonidos, que dan acceso a los datos generados y producen recursos para el uso público. El directorio sirve como una herramienta valiosa para cualquier persona interesada en la CBPP, como "comuner@s", "prosumidores" o personas investigadoras. El directorio así mismo quiere ayudar a dar visibilidad a la CBPP y apoyar el enredamiento entre proyectos CBPP. El directorio en sí se basa en producción colaborativa. ¡Únete a la cartografía colaborativa de CBPP: Reutilizando y remezclando los datos, insertando nuevos casos, enviando tus sugerencias sobre el diseño del directorio, uniéndoos como organización al consorcio promotor del directorio, etc La base de datos del directorio se publica con una licencia abierta y los datos están accesible a través de API o descargables en varios formatos. Para celebrar el lanzamiento del directorio el 12 de Marzo celebraremos un Data Jam (hackathon), un esfuerzo colectivo para poblar el directorio con el mayor número de casos de CBPP posible. Ademas de incorporar casos en el directorio, durante el día celebraremos un programa via streaming en directo. Iniciando a las (11:30 h) Mayo Fuster Morell (IGOPnet.cc) presentará la investigación P2Pvalue sobre los criterios de delimitación de la CBPP y las condiciones que la favorecen. (12:34h) David Rozas (Universidad de Surrey) explicará el directorio desde una perspectiva técnica. (13:45h) Antonio Tenorio (UCM) presentará Kune, una plataforma descentralizada a cuyo desarrollo también contribuye el proyecto P2Pvalue. (17h) Habrá presentaciones de casos como Guifi.net (por Jaume Barceló y Pedro) y (18h) Goteo.org (por Maria G. Perulero). Finalmente (19h), celebraremos un debate sobre el "valor Analizar experiencias en la CBPP" moderado por Mayo Fuster Morell y con intervenciones de Michel Bauwens (P2PFoundation), Marco Berlinguer (IGOPnet.cc) y Marcos García (Medialab Prado) . ¿Cómo unirse a la Data Jam (12 de marzo 2014)? Directorio: http://directory.p2pvalue.eu Enlace de streaming en vivo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRE7D1CHamQ Twitter: @ P2Pvalue etiquetas hash # P2PDATAJAM y # P2PVALUE Data Jam locales: Data Jam locales se llevaran a cabo en Barcelona, Madrid y Quito (horario y dirección física de los encuentros http://p2pdatajam.titanpad.com/1). Organiza un Data Jam en tu localidad tambien si quieres! Lista de correo: http://lists.p2pvalue.eu/wws/info/datajam El desarrollo de directorio se lleva a cabo con el apoyo del Proyecto Europeo P2Pvalue.eu (Plataforma Tecno - social para el desarrollo de modelos sostenibles y la generación de valor en la producción entre iguales basada en el procomun en el Internet del Futuro), y promovido por un consorcio de organizaciones, entre estas, los socios del proyecto P2Pvalue (principalmente: IGOPnet.cc (conceptualización y coordinación del CBPP), Universidad de Surrey (desarrollo técnico del Directorio) y la Fundación P2P (difusión del Directorio)), y el apoyo de los otros socios GRASIA - Universidad Complutense de Madrid, CNRS y la Universidad de Milán), y la colaboración del Capítulo Español de la Fundación por el conocimiento abierto, entre otros. El Equipo del Data Jam esta compuesto por (coordinación) Rubén Martínez (IGOPnet.cc) ruben(a)leyseca.net<mailto:ruben@leyseca.net> @RubenMartinez David Rozas (Universidad de Surrey) david.rozas(a)gmail.com<mailto:david.rozas@gmail.com> @drozas y Kevin Flanagan (Fundación P2P) kevin(a)p2pvalue.eu<mailto:kevin@p2pvalue.eu> @flgnk Con el apoyo de Mayo Fuster Morell (IGOPnet.cc) mayo.fuster(a)eui.eu<mailto:mayo.fuster@eui.eu> @lilaroja Jorge Salcedo (IGOPnet.cc) @jorgelsalcedo y Antonio Tapiador (UCM) atapiador(a)ucm.es<mailto:atapiador@ucm.es> @atapiador The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, forwarding, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited without the express permission of the sender. 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Notes from the wiki research session at CSCW '14
by Dario Taraborelli 10 Mar '14

10 Mar '14

All, these are highlights from a session the Wikimedia Foundation’s Research & Data team hosted at CSCW ’14 in Baltimore. The audience was a group of researchers either working on Wikipedia/Wikimedia-related research projects or interested in learning about opportunities to collaborate with the Foundation. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions/comments. Contact Dario Taraborelli - dario(a)wikimedia.org Aaron Halfaker - ahalfaker(a)wikimedia.org Jonathan Morgan - jmorgan(a)wikimedia.org IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-research (webclient) Mailing list: wiki-research-l (mailing list) Resources We gave a short overview of existing resources of potential interest to Wikipedia/Wikimedia researchers: OAuth allows 3rd-party software to edit Wikipedia on behalf of a Wikipedia editor and it’s a (mostly untapped) opportunity to run experimental research or test new interfaces targeted at Wikipedians. See: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OAuth#Using_OAuth Data portal summarizes data sources that are currently available to researchers and app developers. See: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Data Wikimedia Research Newsletter: A monthly overview reviewing or summarizing recent research (contributions are welcome, please contact Dario if you’re interested in contributing) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter Subject recruitment. Aaron and Dario have managed a process for documenting and vetting subject recruitment occurring on Wikimedia projects. This process was set in place to help resolve the tension between researchers’ need to recruit subjects and editors’ desire to not be bothered. The process involves a public discussion and mentorship in order to ensure that proposed studies that affect editors are well documented, are addressing original questions and do not result in unnecessary disruption of wiki work. This is a service we’ve been providing on a volunteer basis as members of the Research Committee, it’s meant to offer support to researchers but doesn’t eliminate the risk that an account used for recruitment purposes might be blocked by an administrator. IRBs and minors. One of the issues that we discussed is dealing with IRB & other ethics boards’ requirements when studies may result in interaction with minors. Aaron <ahalfaker(a)wikimedia.org> is willing to discuss the issue with researchers and university staff upon request. Annual survey modules. Interest was expressed in exploring strategies for expanding the annual editor/reader survey with new questions contributed by researchers. At this point (March 2014) we cannot commit to any such project, but in general there is potential for cooperations between WMF and academic researchers in this area. Interested parties should contact Tilman Bayer (tbayer at wikimedia dot org) who has been conducting the last WMF editor survey and can provide information about these surveys (methodology, results, available data etc.) and their calendar. WikiResearch Workshop at CSCW 2015. We discussed planning a workshop for CSCW next year. Anyone who is interested in collaborating, please contact us. Details are TBD, but our general goals include: increase awareness of the public data resources that are available highlight research areas that are ripe for investigation, esp. where WMF could benefit from the results get a better sense of what kind of data resources (and/or what data formats) researchers would like to have brainstorm a (lightweight, ethical, practical) model for partnership between WMF and academic research orgs that want access to certain non-public data Wiki Research Hackathons. On Nov. 9th, 2013, we held our first global research hackathon (announcement). We had universities and other local meetups from around the world connect via Google Hangout to share ideas, data and presentations geared toward datasets, code and other resources. We’ll be planning another hackathon in the coming months. You can help by hosting or attending your own local event. Please contact us if you’re interested. Public listing on WMF’s strategic research questions. We discussed the potential for the Wikimedia Foundation to list out key areas of research that we are interested in. This is something we are keenly interested in and you should expect to hear from us soon through wiki-research-l and @WikiResearch. Tweet @WikiResearch. We maintain a relatively high-visibility twitter account from which we tweet about new research, data, and other initiatives. If you tweet about your own wiki-related work @WikiResearch, we will retweet it so long as it’s relevant. We will also experiment with the use of this Twitter handle to increase the visibility of libraries and analytics tools to support Wikipedia research. Internships/grad student residencies. We talked briefly about research collaborations, internships and other forms of work opportunities at WMF. We’re actively exploring possibilities and will broadcast details through wiki-research-l and @WikiResearch when we know more. We’re hiring. We are looking to expand the research team at WMF, if you are interested in working with us keep an eye on wiki-research-l and @WikiResearch for job openings or contact us off-list.

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community survey
by James Salsman 09 Mar '14

09 Mar '14

Dear Federico: Do you have time to re-do the European community survey, or know any trusted community members who do? I am nowhere near Europe. Any trusted community member can update the questionnaire, and I am sure you could get volunteers to help translate it: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/General_User_Survey/Questionnaire Furthermore, there are some pretty obvious reasons why anyone at the Foundation or any Foundation-funded entity has a conflict of interest when trying to administer such surveys, which manifests in ways which we should try to reduce. The last time I tried to run a survey I was accused of violating a proposal. That makes it much harder for me to run another one than it would if you did. I am confident that the permissions involved will be restored, because I am confident that the Foundation will try to make amends for their mistake someday. It took me about 60 hours for 330 enwiki administrators, but there were complicated issues and questions to which I still have not received a response. Original: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Survey 16 proposed additions followed by the earlier list of 24: 1. Labor rights, e.g., linking to fixmyjob.com 2. Support the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its protocols without reservation 3. Increase infrastructure spending 4. Increase education spending 5. Public school class size reduction 6. College subsidy with income-based repayment terms 7. More steeply progressive taxation 8. Negative interest on excess reserves 9. Telecommuting 10. Workweek length reduction 11. Single-payer health care 12. Renewable power purchase 13. Increased data center hardware power efficiency 14. Increased security against eavesdropping 15. Metropolitan broadband 16. Oppose monopolization of software, communications, publishing, and finance industries --- A. Open Access (Scientific Research) B. Database Rights C. Freedom of Information D. Orphan Works E. Broadband Internet Access F. Data Protection G. Human Rights H. Freedom of Panorama I. Open (Government) Data J. Censorship K. Copyright on Government Works L. Internet Neutrality M. Three-strikes laws N. Cultural Heritage O. Data Retention P. Provider/Hoster Liability Q. Copyright Enforcement R. Geodata S. Open Educational Resources T. Software Patents U. Research Funding V. Surveillance W. Public Broadcasting X. Frequency Allocation Justification from previous messages: > Our advocacy orientation isn't well aligned with the issues that most > affect Wikimedians at present, because previous surveys had ... flaws. Would quantitative measures of how various proposed actions counter threats to building and sharing free knowledge help? For example, if someone makes a case that acting successfully on some issue is likely to cause X additional hours of productive editor contribution time than failing to act on it, and nobody disagrees with the analysis, or, if the analysis is supported by reliable sources, nobody is able to counter those sources or show that they aren't applicable, then the Foundation could be obligated to at least open a formal RFC on the topic, and at larger thresholds of X, for example, point people to it with CentralNotice or watchlist notices etc. A good specific example is the Comcast-Time Warner Cable issue. I think we should act to avoid monopoly consolidation of internet resources, and there are sources which measure the extent to which monopolies result in additional rent-seeking which would tend to exclude editors. But I'm not particularly motivated to ask for action on it without some expectation of whether it is even worth it to try to persuade people. see also: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/advocacy_advisors/2014-February/000394… Best regards, James Salsman

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