Wiki-research-l June 2015

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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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Wikipedia aggregate clickstream data released
by Dario Taraborelli 17 Jan '18

17 Jan '18

We’re glad to announce the release of an aggregate clickstream dataset extracted from English Wikipedia http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1305770 <http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1305770> This dataset contains counts of (referer, article) pairs aggregated from the HTTP request logs of English Wikipedia. This snapshot captures 22 million (referer, article) pairs from a total of 4 billion requests collected during the month of January 2015. This data can be used for various purposes: • determining the most frequent links people click on for a given article • determining the most common links people followed to an article • determining how much of the total traffic to an article clicked on a link in that article • generating a Markov chain over English Wikipedia We created a page on Meta for feedback and discussion about this release: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikipedia_clickstream <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikipedia_clickstream> Ellery and Dario

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The Wikimedia Research Newsletter 5(6) is out
by masssly＠ymail.com 30 Jun '15

30 Jun '15

The June 2015 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2015/June In this issue: 1 How Wikipedia built governance capability, 2001–2009 2 Readability of plastic surgery articles examined 3 Briefly 3.1 Fukushima discussions in the English and Japanese Wikipedias *** 4 publications were covered in this issue *** Thanks to Piotr Konieczny and Leeza Rodriguez for contributing. Masssly, 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/

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] Unsolicieted email from "wikimedia research"
by Aaron Halfaker 29 Jun '15

29 Jun '15

> > RCom, as far as I know has not been active in the past year or more (last > meeting was on Dec. 22, 2011). *RCom is not dead. It changed into something less formal and less hierarchical. You can still email me and Dario to get support for your research plans. We'd still reconvene the committee if it looks like that'll help. * While RCom hasn't met in a long time, the process for subject recruitment hasn't slowed. We don't have a technical requirement that all recruitment studies must follow The Process, but I have been helping researchers document their studies and obtain feedback and sometimes consensus for more than five years now. Really, RCom has morphed slowly into the Research Team at the WMF + a few interested volunteers that we can manage to pull in to help us with review work (shout out to Daniel Mietchen, Nemo, Yaroslav & BluRasberry). Within the research team, we *do* have structured processed for supporting researchers access to data and engineering support, but subject recruitment has been mostly left in my (volunteer time) hands. Regretfully, I wasn't involved in the planning of this project or I would have directed it towards best practices for minimizing disruption <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Research_recruitment> -- e.g. an RFC. I would have also pushed Leila to find a way to make posts on talk pages work (since they are known to be generally preferable, police-able, etc.), but I can understand why concerns around privacy might be worth discussion. I regret that this discussion only happened after-the-fact as it could have informed the study design for the better. FWIW, SuggestBot posts recommendations on user talk pages and also does not filter for offensive content (to my knowledge). Finally, I think it is important to consider the source of this research work. Leila is not some random academic or industry researcher who is planning to take advantage of Wikipedians for a study, but not give back. Leila is working with a team at the WMF tasked with building better translation tools. She helped them design an experiment that would explore the effectiveness of these tools so that when something is deployed, it's actually better and we know it scientifically. A lot of the work I do with external researchers is to help make sure that their work has the potential to benefit Wikipedia/Wikipedians/Wikimedia/Open knowledge. In this case, the Leila's team is just helping the product teams engage in best practices around empirical software change practice. After all, every software deployment is an experiment that is inflicted upon you without consent. In this case, Leila's job is making sure that we know the effect before we deploy. So, what I really mean to say is: 1. You're right. We should do this better. We have a process and everyone should go through it. It might have caught some of the issues that have been raised. 2. Leila is WMF staff. She's trying to help the WMF build better software for the purpose of benefiting Wikipedians. Her team deserves some slack. The alternative of not running the study is less desirable. -Aaron On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Michelle Paulson <mpaulson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > Please see in-line below. > > -Michelle > > On Saturday, June 27, 2015, Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > + Michelle Paulson > > > > On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com > > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','wiki.pine(a)gmail.com');>> wrote: > > > >> This issue is also being discussed on the Research mailing list. > >> > >> I have three questions: > >> > >> 1. Was this outreach method approved by RCom? > >> > > No, and RCom, as far as I know has not been active in the past year or > > more (last meeting was on Dec. 22, 2011). This is a research from the > > Research team in the WMF. > > > >> 2. Email addresses are nonpublic information on-wiki unless they are > >> proactively and publicly disclosed by users. Does the bulk collection of > >> nonpublic email addresses in this manner and the bulk provision of those > >> addresses to researchers for their use in this campaign violate the > >> Wikimedia privacy policy? The policy states regarding email, "We use > your > >> email address to let you know about things that are happening with the > >> Foundation, the Wikimedia Sites, or the Wikimedia movement, such as > telling > >> you important information about your account, letting you know if > something > >> is changing about the Wikimedia Sites or policies, and alerting you when > >> there has been a change to an article that you have decided to follow." > The > >> bulk scraping of email addresses from account registrations for research > >> and outreach purposes doesn't appear to be contemplated or authorized > under > >> the privacy policy. > >> > > Michelle can help with this one as this is related to Legal. Note that > > it's weekend here and this may have to wait until Monday. > > > > The research team did speak to me prior to beginning this project to ensure > that they complied with the WMF privacy policy. It is my view that this > type of use falls within the permissible potential uses for email addresses > under the policy. The examples listed in the policy are meant to be > illustrative, not exclusive -- the absence of this situation as an > enumerated example shouldn't be taken as a prohibition. > > That said, it is a new use and therefore, will and should be the subject of > discussion and debate. It is such feedback and testing that will help us > refine email practices to be both effective and reflective of community > values. > > > 3. Wouldn't talk pages be a more appropriate outreach method than bulk > >> email? > >> > > The reason we chose email over talk pages (or Echo notifications) is > > explained here > > < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Increasing_article_coverage#.… > >. > > > > > > Hope this helps. > > > > Best, > > Leila > > > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Pine > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wiki-research-l mailing list > >> Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org');> > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >> > >> > > > > -- > == > Michelle Paulson > Senior Legal Counsel > Wikimedia Foundation > 149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor > San Francisco, CA 94105 > mpaulson(a)wikimedia.org > 415.839.6885 ext. 6608 (Office) > 415.882.0495 (Fax) > > *NOTICE: This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you > have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about the > mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation and for legal/ethical > reasons, I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community > members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For more > on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>.* > _______________________________________________ > 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> >

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Aidez à améliorer l'exhaustivité de Wikipédia en français
by Samuel Klein 28 Jun '15

28 Jun '15

This is such a delightful experience. Whoever is working on translation interfaces and translation research this way: very nicely done indeed. Sadly, automatic translation hinting doesn't seem to be available yet. Or at least it's Non disponible pour français SJ 2015-06-25 15:59 GMT-07:00 Wikimedia Research < recommender-feedback(a)wikimedia.org>: > Bonjour, L’équipe Recherche de la Fondation Wikimédia (Wikimedia > Research) travaille actuellement sur l’identification d’articles populaires > et importants1 <#14e2cf2eca33408f_fn1> dans certaines langues du projet > Wikipédia qui n’existent pas encore sur le Wikipédia francophone. Les cinq > articles suivants existent dans la version anglophone de Wikipédia et sont > considérés comme étant importants pour les autres langues du projet. Au vu > de votre historique de contribution à Wikipédia, nous pensons que vous êtes > un(e) excellent candidat(e) pour contribuer à ces articles. Démarrer la > création de l'un de ces articles serait un premier pas considérable en vue > d'élargir les connaissances disponibles en français.2 > <#14e2cf2eca33408f_fn2> > > Dollfus' stargazer > <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation?campaign=frwiki-re…'_stargazer> > > Request Tracker > <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation?campaign=frwiki-re…> > > American Poultry Association > <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation?campaign=frwiki-re…> > > Attribute–value pair > <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation?campaign=frwiki-re…> > > Kal Aaj Aur Kal > <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation?campaign=frwiki-re…> > > Nous vous remercions d'avance pour votre aide. 3 <#14e2cf2eca33408f_fn3> > 4 <#14e2cf2eca33408f_fn4> > > Equipe de Recherche > Fondation Wikimédia > 149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor > San Francisco, CA, 94105 > 415.839.6885 (Office) > ------------------------------ > 1. Nous identifions les articles importants et populaires grâce à un > algorithme. Cette sélection d'articles peut être un résultat personnalisé > ou aléatoire. Vous pouvez en apprendre davantage sur la personnalisation et > les méthodes utilisées pour trouver les articles importants à cette > adresse > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Increasing_article_coverage#Method…> > . > 2. Les liens pointent vers l’outil de traduction de Wikipédia > (ContentTranslation Tool). Cet outil est en cours de développement par > l’équipe Language Engineering de la fondation (pour l’instant en version > beta dans certaines langues). En savoir plus: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation. > 3. Si vous désirez plus d’informations sur ce projet de recherche, vous > pouvez lire cette page > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Increasing_article_coverage> > (en anglais), et nous en parler sur sa page de discussion > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Increasing_article_coverage> > (en anglais de préférence, même si nous trouverons certainement un > traducteur si vous nous écrivez en français :). > 4. Votre avis est important pour nous. Faites nous part de vos impressions > par courriel à l’adresse recommender-feedback(a)wikimedia.org. > > > Si vous ne souhaitez plus recevoir de courriel de Wikimedia Research, > merci d’envoyer un courriel ayant pour sujet "unsubscribe" à l’adresse > recommender-feedback(a)wikimedia.org>. >

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] Unsolicieted email from "wikimedia research"
by Pine W 27 Jun '15

27 Jun '15

This issue is also being discussed on the Research mailing list. I have three questions: 1. Was this outreach method approved by RCom? 2. Email addresses are nonpublic information on-wiki unless they are proactively and publicly disclosed by users. Does the bulk collection of nonpublic email addresses in this manner and the bulk provision of those addresses to researchers for their use in this campaign violate the Wikimedia privacy policy? The policy states regarding email, "We use your email address to let you know about things that are happening with the Foundation, the Wikimedia Sites, or the Wikimedia movement, such as telling you important information about your account, letting you know if something is changing about the Wikimedia Sites or policies, and alerting you when there has been a change to an article that you have decided to follow." The bulk scraping of email addresses from account registrations for research and outreach purposes doesn't appear to be contemplated or authorized under the privacy policy. 3. Wouldn't talk pages be a more appropriate outreach method than bulk email? Thanks, Pine

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Aaron Swartz Hypothesis on Wikipedia Authorship
by Krzysztof Gajewski 25 Jun '15

25 Jun '15

Hi all, I wonder if you know if somebody verified and / or further researched Aaron Swartz's thesis on structure of Wikipedia participation. You can find it here: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia Best, Krzysztof Gajewski

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by Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

*** Apologies for multiple postings *** Call for Participation Please consider submitting a contribution to the Computational Social Science satellite workshop, co-located with CCS'15. What: Computational Social Science -- CCS'15 Satellite Workshop Where: Tempe, Arizona (USA) When: October 1 2015 Website: http://cssworkshop.oii.ox.ac.uk Submissions due: June 24, 2015, Midnight PDT (EXTENDED!!) Continuing an already consolidated pattern since 2013, the Conference in Complex Systems (http://www.ccs2015.org) hosts the satellite workshop on Computational Social Science. The aim of this satellite is to address the question of ICT-mediated social phenomena emerging over multiple scales, ranging from the interactions of individuals to the emergence of self-organized global movements. Particular attention will be devoted to the following topics: - Interdependent social contagion process - Peer production and mass collaboration - Temporally evolving networks and dynamics of social contagion - Cognitive aspects of belief formation and revision - Online communication and information diffusion - Viral propagation in online social network - Crowd-sourcing; herding behaviour vs. wisdom of crowds - E-democracy and online government-citizen interaction - Online socio-political mobilizations - Public attention and popularity - Temporal and geographical patterns of information diffusion - User-information interplay - Group formation, evolution and group behavior analysis. - Modeling, tracking and forecasting dynamic groups in social media. - Community detection and dynamic community structure analysis. - Social simulation, cultural, opinion, and normative dynamics. - Empirical calibration and validation of agent-based social models. - Models of social capital, collective action, social movements. - Coevolution of network and behavior. Please address any questions to css2015(a)indiana.edu Thank you. Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia on behalf of the CSS Workshop Organizing Committee ✎ 919 E 10th ∙ Bloomington 47408 IN ∙ USA ☞ http://www.glciampaglia.com/ ✆ +1 812 855-7261 ✉ gciampag(a)indiana.edu

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Upcoming research newsletter (June 2015): new papers open for review
by masssly＠ymail.com 21 Jun '15

21 Jun '15

Hi everybody, We’re preparing for the June 2015 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201506 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome. Drafts should be in before the target publication date which is Wednesday, June 24th. Highlights from this month: An Examination of Health, Medicaland Nutritional Information on the Internet:A Comparative Study of Wikipedia, WebMDand the Mayo Clinic Websites Multilingual Wikipedia Enrichment using Infobox andWikidata Alignment Collaboration of Pre-Service Early Childhood Teachers in Dyads for Wikipedia Article Authoring Medical student preferences for self-directed study resources in gross anatomy Computational Fact Checking from Knowledge Networks Challenges of Mathematical Information Retrieval in the NTCIR-11 Math Wikipedia Task WikiMirs: A Mathematical Information Retrieval System for Wikipedia Extracting Domain Knowledge by Complex Networks Analysis of Wikipedia Entries Building Governance Capability in Online Social Production: Insights from Wikipedia Content Translation: Computer-assisted translation tool for Wikipedia articles WikiKreator: Improving Wikipedia Stubs Automatically Peer-production system or collaborative ontology development effort: what is Wikidata? Social construction of knowledge in Wikipedia If you have any question about the format or process feel free to get in touch off-list. Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter

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Men of Quora use Wikipedia to get their knowledge while women have other sources
by Laura Hale 20 Jun '15

20 Jun '15

So... as referenced to yesterday, I was doing some research. I published the results on meta at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Men_of_Quora_use_Wikipedia_to_get_… . The gist of it appears to be that women on Quora are less likely to link to Wikipedia than their male counterparts. I am not completely sure what the reasons for this are, but some of the research done by others appears to hint around the edges at possible causes... though I am not sure how much they explain this. (Is this a Wikipedia issue or a Quora issue?) If you're interested in some research looking at the gender gap on another site, http://statisticsforfun.quora.com/ is where a fair bit of my Quora research can be found. It is interesting, especially given that Quora does some of the things people say Wikipedia should do to fix its problems. Sincerely, Laura Hale

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