Wiki-research-l December 2015

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] pageviews.js—A JavaScript Client Library for the Wikimedia Pageviews API for Node.js and the browser
by Thomas Steiner 18 Dec '15

18 Dec '15

> Filed as https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121823 Thanks, subscribed. I was not aware of the Api-User-Agent header; for everyone like me, this is described here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy: "Browser-based applications written in Flash or JavaScript are typically forced to send the same User-Agent header as the browser that hosts them. This is not a violation of policy, however such applications are encouraged to include the Api-User-Agent header to supply an appropriate agent." -- Dr. Thomas Steiner, Employee (blog.tomayac.com, twitter.com/tomayac) Google Germany GmbH, ABC-Str. 19, 20354 Hamburg Geschäftsführer: Matthew Scott Sucherman, Paul Terence Manicle Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.29 (GNU/Linux) iFy0uwAntT0bE3xtRa5AfeCheCkthAtTh3reSabiGbl0ck0fjumBl3DCharaCTersAttH3b0ttom.hTtP5://xKcd.c0m/1181/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Analytics] Python client for the new pageview API
by Dan Andreescu 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

Along the same lines as Oliver's great R client [1], I just started work on a python version: PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wmf/0.1 code: https://github.com/milimetric/wmf (PRs welcome) And if you're trying to skip past all the setup repository cruft, the meat: https://github.com/milimetric/wmf/blob/master/wmf/analytics/api/pageviews.py [1] https://github.com/Ironholds/pageviews

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pageviews.js—A JavaScript Client Library for the Wikimedia Pageviews API for Node.js and the browser
by Thomas Steiner 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

Dear all, First and foremost, thanks for making the Wikimedia Pageviews API available; your work is highly appreciated and super useful! As a modest "thank you", I am happy to release the JavaScript client library pageviews.js for Node.js and the browser to make working with this API easy for JavaScript developers. Please find the code and all instructions at [1]. The library adds some convenience functions (getting batch pageviews and limiting the number of results) that were inspired by Dan Andreescu's Python library [2] and is Promise-based: === var pageviews = require('pageviews'); // Getting pageviews for a single article pageviews.getPerArticlePageviews({ article: 'Berlin', project: 'en.wikipedia', start: '20151201', end: '20151202' }).then(function(result) { console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, 2)); }).catch(function(error) { console.log(error); }); // Getting top-n items ranked by pageviews for multiple projects pageviews.getTopPageviews({ projects: ['en.wikipedia', 'de.wikipedia'], // Plural year: '2015', month: '12', day: '01', limit: 2 // Limit to the first n results }).then(function(result) { console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, 2)); }).catch(function(error) { console.log(error); }); === On a more technical note—trying to be a good citizen [3]—the client library sets an identifying User-Agent header in Node.js mode. However, trying to set the corresponding X-User-Agent (note the "X-") header from a browser context (XMLHttpRequest cannot override the browser's intrinsic User-Agent for security reasons), this fails with an error message "Request header field X-User-Agent is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Headers in preflight response". Maybe you could change your CORS settings and include X-User-Agent in your Access-Control-Allow-Headers?! Hope this is useful. Thanks, Tom -- [1] pageviews.js: https://github.com/tomayac/pageviews.js [2] python-mwviews: https://github.com/mediawiki-utilities/python-mwviews [3] User-Agent requirement: https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc -- Dr. Thomas Steiner, Employee (blog.tomayac.com, twitter.com/tomayac) Google Germany GmbH, ABC-Str. 19, 20354 Hamburg Geschäftsführer: Matthew Scott Sucherman, Paul Terence Manicle Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.29 (GNU/Linux) iFy0uwAntT0bE3xtRa5AfeCheCkthAtTh3reSabiGbl0ck0fjumBl3DCharaCTersAttH3b0ttom.hTtP5://xKcd.c0m/1181/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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FYI: No Wikimedia Research Showcase for December
by Aaron Halfaker 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

Hey folks, I'm emailing to let you know that we won't be holding a Wikimedia Research Showcase for this month due to the holidays. We'll kick it back in gear for January 2016 though. Watch this page for updates: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase Happy holidays! -Aaron

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Call for Workshops - 9th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2016 - Proposals Deadline 22. January 2016
by serge.autexier＠dfki.de 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

Call for Workshop Proposals 9th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2016 - July 25-29, 2016 University of Bialystok, Poland http://www.cicm-conference.org/2016 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means for the generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of mathematical information. Separate communities have developed to investigate and build computer based systems for computer algebra, automated deduction, and mathematical publishing as well as novel user interfaces. While all of these systems excel in their own right, their integration can lead to synergies offering significant added value. The Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM) offers a venue for discussing and developing solutions to the great challenges posed by the integration of these diverse areas. CICM has been held annually as a joint meeting since 2008, colocating related conferences and workshops to advance work in these subjects. Previous meetings have been held in Birmingham (U.K. 2008), Grand Bend (Canada 2009), Paris (France 2010), Bertinoro (Italy 2011), Bremen (Germany 2012), Bath (U.K. 2013), Coimbra (Portugal, 2014) and Washington D.C. (USA, 2015). This is the call for proposals for workshops to be held at CICM 2016, which will be held at the University of Bialystok (Poland), July 25-29 next year. 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 Formal Mathematics for Mathematicians Intelligent Proof Search Mathematical user Interfaces Mathematics Information Retrieval OpenMath Pen-Based Mathematical Computation Programming languages for Mechanized Mathematics Systems SCIEnce The Notion of Proof User Interfaces for Theorem Provers Proposals for workshops to be held at CICM 2016 are solicited. Both well-established workshops and newer or brand new ones are encouraged. Please provide the following information: + Workshop title. + Names and affiliations of organizers. + Brief description of workshop goals and/or topics. + Proposed workshop duration (half a day up to two days is possible). + If the workshop has met previously, please include the conference affiliation for the previous meeting. If the workshop is new, please indicate so. CICM will take care of copying and distributing informal printed proceedings for workshops that would like this service, as well as permanently archived open access online proceedings with CEUR-WS.org. All proposals should be sent via email to cicm-organizers(a)jacobs-university.de for consideration by the CICM 2016 organizers: Conference Chair: Adam Naumowicz (U Bialystok, Poland) General Program Chair: Michael Kohlhase (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany) Calculemus Track Chair: Leonardo de Moura (Microsoft Research, USA) DML Track Chair: Frank Tompa (U Waterloo, Canada) MKM Track Chair: Bruce Miller (NIST, USA) System & Data Chair: Moa Johansson (Chalmers U, Sweden) Workshop Chair: Serge Autexier (DFKI, Germany) Important dates: Deadline for proposal submissions: January 22nd, 2016 Acceptance/rejection notification: February 1, 2016 Workshop dates: July 25-29, 2016 ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Call for Papers: Decentralizing the Commons
by Samer 13 Dec '15

13 Dec '15

Dear all, I think that the following call might be of interest to some members of the list. Please, feel free to disseminate it (thanks!): Call for Papers: Decentralizing the Commons We are witnessing today a steady growth in the impact of user-generated content and peer-production on the so-called sharing or collaborative economy. These emergent practices are an indicator of radical changes in the mode of production in an age of ‘prosumerism’, characterized by two main trends. On the one hand, corporations such as Google, Uber or Facebook are capturing the value created by the actors contributing to the collaborative economy, in a way that has been described by some scholars as an exploitation of free labour. On the other hand, projects such as Wikipedia or GNU/Linux are emblematic of a new model of production that relies on the contribution of many individuals collaborating to a collective project that is not owned by any given entity but rather by the community as a whole (Commons-Based Peer Production or CBPP). These individuals organise themselves without relying on traditional hierarchical and mercantile organisational structures, to produce a set of commons resources which are made freely available to the public for use and reuse. In the last few years, CBPP has expanded beyond the field of software and encyclopedias to also cover the realms of information (OpenStreetMap, Wikihow), hardware (FabLabs, Open Source Ecology), accommodation (Couchsurfing, BeWelcome) and currency (Bitcoin, Altcoins). The concept of decentralisation is a key requisite for the protection of thesecommons — from their governance system, including the allocation of power and functions in the organisation of labour; to the characteristics of the socio-technical means of collaboration, in terms of both the underlying technical infrastructure and the ownership structure of such infrastructure. Despite the original design of the Internet as a decentralized network, with the advent of the Web 2.0, centralized (and often proprietary) platforms — typically driven by corporate interests — have progressively taken over the web. These centralized choke-points can be used by governments to increase surveillance (as disclosed by the Snowden revelations), to blackout the Internet (e.g. Egypt, Syria, or San Francisco’s BART), or to restrict the activities of activist organizations (such as Wikileaks). It has now become clear that it is not enough to develop free/libre/open source (FLOSS)alternatives, if we do not as well endeavor to re-decentralize the Internet. Newdecentralized software tools may ultimately be useful to support the operation and the long-term sustainability of CBPP communities. In view of this, we organised the second FLOSS4P2P workshop <http://www.p2pvalue.eu/2nd-floss4p2p-workshop> (@Fablab London, supported by P2Pvalue <http://p2pvalue.eu/>), gathering a wide spectrum of people working ondecentralized FLOSS projects that could help or support the activities of peer production communities. Given the success of the workshop <http://p2pvalue.eu/floss4p2p-workshop-agenda>, we would like to prepare a book in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures <http://networkcultures.org/> (on the model of the former MoneyLab Reader <http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/moneylab-reader-an-intervention…>) to explore the topic of decentralisation in thecommons sector. We welcome proposals from academics, activists, researchers and practitioners interested in exploring the topic from a wide set of perspectives, ranging from computer science, engineering, sociology, philosophy, organisational theory, cultural studies, digital studies, etc. Contributions can cover a variety of topics, including tools for grassroots communities, commons-based peer production, both online and offline wikis, maker culture, activism, hacktivism, free culture, citizen science and hospitality exchange. Contributions can take a variety of formats, e.g. a story, a sci-fi tale, a comicstrip, a manifesto, a critical essay, an interview, a study, a poem, a conversation, a debate, a combination of the former… we would like you to experiment and surprise us! We invite you to submit an initial abstract (max. 750w; count each image as 200w, if any) explaining your idea by January 30, 2016. Examples of possible topics are: - Dynamics of (de)centralization in CBPP communities - Decentralized software applications for online/offline communities - Decentralized solutions to tackle specific communities concerns - Guidelines for developers and/or researchers - Comparison of centralized/decentralized processes in CBPP (e.g. decision-making, infrastructure ownership, value generation, value distribution) - Practical experiences around centralized/decentralized structures (in the form of stories, research, interview, etc.) The more compelling ideas will be selected to be included in the book. Please upload your contribution using the following Easychair link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=floss4p2p If you have further questions about the expected content, format, etc. do not hesitate to let us know. We look forward to hearing about your ideas! Primavera De Filippi Samer Hassan David Rozas -- Samer | @sh3v3k <http://twitter.com/sh3v3k> | http://samer.hassan.name "We are the ones we have been waiting for" (June Jordan)

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Data on editathons held in each Wikipedia Language?
by Maximilian Klein 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

Researchians, I have a been collecting data on the gendered biographies of different Wikipedia Languages from Wikidata dumps, with the question of trying to understand the gender gap in content. After reading about Propensity Score Matching[1] today, I see it would be possible to test a (close to) causal link between the genders of Wikipedia Biographies being added to a language, and Editathon activity. Yet we'd need the data for editathon activity. Is it compiled somewhere, or can you think of how it could be compiled? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propensity_score_matching The idea in propensity score matching is to pretend a randomized experiment is being conducted, and to find a "control group" - a similar but untreated language, for each "treated group". Make a great day, Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/

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New editor retention rates Visual Editor vs Wikitext
by john cummings 09 Dec '15

09 Dec '15

Hi all Does anyone know of any information on editor retention rates based on whether the person used Visual Editor or Wikitext? I'm sure there are many ways you could explore this subject, my specific interest is when running editor training would it be better to teach people to use VE or wikitext? Many thanks John

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"Self-management" management philosophy and Wikipedia
by Pine W 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

This article reminds me a lot of how Wikipedia and its sister projects work ideally: http://www.self-managementinstitute.org/misperceptions-of-self-management Of course we have some problems, some of them very thorny problems for which we have yet to find long-term solutions. Perhaps by looking at the experience of other orgs who are operating with similar philosophies, we can derive solutions. Pine

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Research initiatives for future IdeaLab Campaigns?
by Chris Schilling 07 Dec '15

07 Dec '15

Hi researchers, I'm seeking your help in deciding on future IdeaLab campaigns. These campaigns can generate novel proposals that could be eligible for grant funding, and ultimately address needs in the projects to which you contribute: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Future_IdeaLab_Campaigns> Topics focused on research have an important value across Wikimedia projects. Personally, I've seen a lot of demand for research in discussions around Wikimedia projects, and as a volunteer on en.wiki, I've sometimes felt unequipped debating community, policy, and technical issues without relevant empirical data to ground my thinking. You can offer feedback and add your own campaign topics on potential avenues for research through a survey conducted through AllOurIdeas < http://www.allourideas.org/idealab_campaigns> in addition to participating on the IdeaLab talk page. I’m looking forward to seeing your feedback and exploring potential directions we can take IdeaLab campaigns starting next year. Take care, Jethro -- Chris "Jethro" Schilling I JethroBT (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:I_JethroBT_(WMF)> Community Organizer, Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>

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