Wiki-research-l May 2014

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Monthly research & data showcase livestreamed today
by Dario Taraborelli 22 May '14

22 May '14

The next Research & Data showcase will be live-streamed today Wed 5/21 at 11.30 PT. The streaming link will be posted on the lists a few minutes before the showcase starts and as usual you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. We look forward to seeing you! Dario This month: UX research at WMF Introducing Abbey Ripstra, the new UX research lead at the Wikimedia Foundation. A bird's eye view of editor activation by Dario Taraborelli -- In this talk I will give a high-level overview of data on new editor activation, presenting longitudinal data from the largest Wikipedias, a comparison between desktop and mobile registrations and the relative activation rates of different cohorts of newbies. Collaboration patterns in Articles for Creation by Aaron Halfaker -- Wikipedia needs to attract and retain newcomers while also increasing the quality of its content. Yet new Wikipedia users are disproportionately affected by the quality assurance mechanisms designed to thwart spammers and promoters. English Wikipedia’s en:WP:Articles for Creation provides a protected space for newcomers to draft articles, which are reviewed against minimum quality guidelines before they are published. In this presentation, describe and a study of how this drafting process has affected the productivity of newcomers in Wikipedia. Using a mixed qualitative and quantitative approach, I'll show the process's pre-publication review, which is intended to improve the success of newcomers, in fact decreases newcomer productivity in English Wikipedia and offer recommendations for system designers.

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Kill the bots
by Brian Keegan 22 May '14

22 May '14

Is there a way to retrieve a canonical list of bots on enwiki or elsewhere? I'm interested in omitting automated revisions (sorry Stuart!) for the purposes of building co-authorship networks. Grabbing everything under 'Category:All Wikipedia bots' excludes some major ones like SmackBot, Cydebot, VIAFbot, Full-date unlinking bot, etc. because these bots have changed names but the redirect is not categorized, the account has been removed/deprecated, or a user appears to have removed the relevant bot categories from the page. Can anyone advise me on how to kill all the bots in my data without having to resort to manual cleaning or hacky regex? -- Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Lazer Lab College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University Fellow, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, Harvard University Affiliate, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School b.keegan(a)neu.edu www.brianckeegan.com M: 617.803.6971 O: 617.373.7200 Skype: bckeegan

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How to Keep Track of Template Values Across a Wikipedia?
by Maximilian Klein 21 May '14

21 May '14

Hello All, I'm working on the Open-Access Signalling Project[1], which aims to signal and badge when a reference in Wikipedia is Open Access source. I'm writing the bot at the moment to do this, and I'm encountering a question - how do I keep track of the values of the template {{Cite doi | doi=value}}, in as close to real-time as possible? The most efficient approach I can come up with is to query the SQL servers on Labs in constant loop, returning the results of "What transcludes {{Cite doi}}" and seeing if the last_edited timestamp is newer than previous? If the last_edit is newer, then get the content of the page and see if the {{Cite_doi}} value has changed, checking against a local database. This seems horribly inefficient still. Is there a hook to know when a template on a page has been edited, rather than having to check every time the page has been edited? This is possibly not the right list for this question. If not, which other would you suggest? Wikitech-l did not seem right either? Thanks in advance, Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_…

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] Leadership, Wikimedia-style
by Dariusz Jemielniak 19 May '14

19 May '14

hi Pine, this is an excellent point, and I believe there are definitely too few systematic studies on the topic, as well as targeted programs. <blatant promotion mode on> In my book, "Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia", which has left the press last week, I have a whole chapter ("Between Anarchy and Bureaucracy: Wikimedia Governance") dedicated to issues of governance and internal leadership. http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=24010 Unfortunately, Google Books preview has most of the pages limited (and Stanford University Press is not too keen on open access of their publications, sadly). http://books.google.pl/books?id=hBpuAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA178&dq=jemielniak%20comm… </blatant promotion mode off> best, dariusz "pundit" On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:12 AM, ENWP Pine <deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > I've heard the word "leadership" used a lot in WMF, synonymously with > "management" in my experience. That makes sense in a somewhat hierarchical > organization like WMF, although this model has received some criticism from > the community for allegedly excessive top-down thinking. I'm not familiar > enough with the culture in the WMF Office to comment about its strengths > and weaknesses, but I would like to ask questions about leadership in the > community. > > In the community, which is diffuse and where roles are highly flexible, > there have been some studies done done about leadership but the ones I know > about usually focus on hierarchies within the community, especially how > people get chosen for administrator roles on-wiki. As we are thinking about > our online culture, we can be thinking about movement leadership. Who are > the leaders, how are they trained, how are they selected, what do they do, > what makes them effective, and how can they be given ongoing support and > training? I think many of us would agree that adminship and leadership are > not always synonymous, and there are many ways that people exercise > leadership in non-hierarchical ways. > > I hear frequently about stress from members of English Wikipedia's Arbcom, > and I hope WMF is thinking about how to train and support people who get > chosen for such visible, important, and often stressful volunteer roles. > > I would also like to point out that Wikimedia is developing training > materials for leaders of chapters and programs. > > Is there anyone at WMF who is taking a holistic view of community > leadership and how to understand, train and support it in ways that support > the strategic plan goals? > > Training that might be relevant could include how to create friendly > spaces online, > resolve online conflicts, engage in cross-cultural communication, > encourage strategic thinking, influence change, and maintain morale. I > think a series of five-minute training modules could be helpful for online > and offline volunteers, along with dedicating some Program & Evaluation or > Research time to understanding leadership in the non-hierarchical > community. These initiatives could help with encouraging teamwork and > collaboration online by influencing and training "leaders". > > I would also be interested in hearing about how WMF thinks about > "leadership" internally, since there seems to be some community feeling > that WMF's thinking about leadership is incompatible with the community's. > I don't have an opinion but I would like to be more informed, and hopefully > encourage WMF to think about how the organization as a whole interacts with > the community. > > Thanks, > > Pine > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- __________________________ dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak profesor zarządzania kierownik katedry Zarządzania Międzynarodowego i centrum badawczego CROW Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego http://www.crow.alk.edu.pl członek Akademii Młodych Uczonych Polskiej Akademii Nauk

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Wikimedia-l discussion on leadership in Wikimedia
by ENWP Pine 19 May '14

19 May '14

Researchers and EE specialists, your thoughts would be appreciated on this. I started the thread only on Wikimedia-l to keep the discussion consolidated in one place. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-May/071811.html Thanks, Pine

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Wikipedia traffic: selected language versions
by h 19 May '14

19 May '14

Dear all, With the aim to compare Wikipedia traffic report data (e.g. viewing versus editing, regional differences within a language version, etc.), I have made a few more interactive infographics which show the historical changes since late 2011. (Historical numbers are scraped from the past versions archived by the Internet archive) For more, please visit follow the link below: http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/hanteng/2014/05/16/wikipedia-traffic/ It has at least one nice interactive feature: a user can zoom and pan to view the chart easily with a mouse or mousepad. The SVG vector-based presentation insures the picture quality is consistent when users zoom in to compare data points. (I haven't figured out how mpld3's html tooltip work for this project, though.) It is also possible to extend the prototype with dynamic json objects so that the chart/tables can be updated automatically. Any suggestions and comments are welcome. Best, han-teng liao

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Conference venues for Social Media Researchers [Deadlines are fast approaching!] Reminder
by Anatoliy Gruzd 18 May '14

18 May '14

*Apologies for cross-posting* Calling all Social Media and Online Communities Researchers! Please consider submitting your research to the following conferences. Deadlines are fast approaching. (1) #SMSociety14: SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOCIETY CONFERENCE Location: Toronto, ON, Canada When: September 27-28, 2014 Poster Abstracts Due: May 23, 2014 (!!! in 5 days !!!) More info: http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/?page_id=549 Conference organizers: Anatoliy Gruzd, Dalhousie University Barry Wellman, University of Toronto Philip Mai, Dalhousie University Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto (2) Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) Minitrack: SOCIAL NETWORKING & COMMUNITIES Location: Kauai, Hawaii, USA When: January 5-8, 2015 Full Papers Due: June 15, 2014 More info: http://socialmedialab.ca/?page_id=9308 Minitrack co-chairs: Anatoliy Gruzd, Dalhousie University Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of British Columbia Karine Nahon, University of Washington Please contact Anatoliy Gruzd <gruzd(a)dal.ca> if you have any questions about these calls.

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia reviews published on content
by Alex Druk 13 May '14

13 May '14

Perfect review! Thank you! -- Thank you. Alex Druk www.wikipediatrend.com alex.druk(a)gmail.com (775) 237-8550 Google voice

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Invitation for participation in DigitalSec2014-Ostrava, Czech Republic
by International Conference on Digital Security and Forensics (DigitalSec2014) 12 May '14

12 May '14

CALL FOR PAPERS The International Conference on Digital Security and Forensics (DigitalSec2014) June 24-26, 2014 VSB-Technical University of Ostrava Ostrava, Czech Republic http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/digitsec2014/ ----------------------------------------------------------- The proposed conference on the above theme will be held at VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic From June 24-26, 2014. All papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference, sDIWC digital library and best papers for special issue journals. Important Dates: ================ Final Submission Deadline : May 25, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 7 days from the submission date Camera Ready : June 14, 2014 Registration : June 14, 2014 Conference Dates : June 24-26, 2014

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Looking for log analysis software for android
by Simon Givoli 07 May '14

07 May '14

Hi, I'm trying to find a client side software that will enable me to record *all* actions of the users:* local action* on the tablet (save, pinch, swipe, open documents, etc...) and *server transactions* (web searches, sending information, clicking on adds, etc...). I have found several such programs for window os, but not for the android platform (found in android software that records server transactions only). Any help on the subject would be welcomed, Simon

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