Hey folks,
I just wanted to share a quick writeup that Andrew Lih did about using ORES
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objective_Revision_Evaluation_Service>'
article quality prediction model in the classroom to help students see the
impact of their work in Wikipedia. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fuzheado/ORES_experiment
Some quotes from the writeup:
“Yay!"
>
> “Alright!"
>
> "I feel like we’re part of a secret computer club!"
>
> [...] having students excited and experiencing that instant dopamine hit
> when editing articles is a breath of fresh air when pleasurable
> interactions seem to be less frequent today than in Wikipedia’s early days.
>
One important note is that I had *no idea* ORES would be used in this way.
In a lot of ways, that's the point of building infrastructure like this --
to empower others to enact their own values.
-Aaron
(cross-posting)
Reminder that these lightning talks are happening tomorrow, Tuesday
February 16, at 1900 UTC / 11:00 AM Pacific. Because there are 3 presenters
and a 1-hour block of time, each presenter has about 15 minutes including
time for questions. We might finish early.
On the agenda:
* Pine: "LearnWIki" Instructional video series on Wikipedia mechanics
(Including VE and citoid) and community practices
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_vid…>
* Madhu Viswanathan: "Counting unique devices accessing Wikipedia projects
using Last access method"
* Rosemary Rein: "Program Capacity and Learning-Building a Roadmap Together"
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Program_Capacity_and_Learning_Roadm…>
Hope to see you there!
Pine
On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 5:47 PM, Kevin Leduc <kevin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Thanks for forwarding Pine! I welcome any 10 minute talks from GLAM and
> Education as well. If you add your name to the list [1], email me as well
> so I can contact you and forward notes for Lightning Talk speakers.
>
> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks#February_2016
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Boldly forwarding* in case others would like to view or present a
>> lightning talk. I plan to give a lightning talk about the video series
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_vid…>
>> which I'm in the process of producing with the support of an individual
>> engagement grant.
>>
>> Although these talks can be about technical topics like video formats, I
>> think that there are education and GLAM activities that could fit under the
>> umbrella as well, especially if they have technical or research aspects.
>> For example, I'll probably focus much of my presentation on my background
>> research and project design process.
>>
>> Hope to see you there!
>> Pine
>>
>> * To boldly forward where no one has forwarded before
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Kevin Leduc <kevin(a)wikimedia.org>
>> Date: Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:23 PM
>> Subject: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: February 2016 Lightning Talks
>> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Kevin Leduc <kevin(a)wikimedia.org>
>> Date: Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:22 PM
>> Subject: February 2016 Lightning Talks
>> To: "Staff (All)" <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>>
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>
>> The next Lightning Talks are scheduled for February 16th (two weeks from
>> today). We hope at least 4 people will sign up for the talks by Friday
>> February 12th otherwise we will postpone them another month. Lightning
>> Talks are an opportunity for teams @ WMF & in the Community to showcase
>> something they have achieved: a quarterly goal, milestone, release, or
>> anything of significance to the rest of the foundation and the movement as
>> a whole.
>>
>>
>> Each presentation will be 10 minutes or less including time for questions.
>>
>> Sign up here:
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks#February_2016
>>
>>
>> Next round of Lightning Talks:
>>
>> When: Tuesday February 16, 1900 UTC
>> <
>> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Lightning+Talks&is…
>> >,
>> 11am PST (We have added this Lightning Talk to the WMF Engineering, Fun &
>> Learning, and Staff calendars)
>>
>> Where: 5th Floor
>>
>> Remotees: On-Air google hangout will be provided just before the meeting
>>
>> IRC: #wikimedia-tech
>>
>> YouTube stream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3fyCgBWvFc
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Kevin Leduc, Megan Neisler, Brendan Campbell
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>
Hi Pine et al.,
Apologies for resurrecting this old thread, but my colleague Michael
Gilbert alerted me the other day that the API we set up a couple years ago
to collect and expose data about EnWiki WikiProject size and membership is
still up and running!*
Here's a couple samples:
- pages claimed by WikiProject Cats:
https://alahele.ischool.uw.edu:8997/api/getProjectPages?project=WikiProject…
- members of WikiProject Cats:
https://alahele.ischool.uw.edu:8997/api/getProjectMembers?project=WikiProje…
Some pretty detailed API documentation is available at Michael's GitHub repo
<https://github.com/mdgilbert/node-reflex>.
The data should be up-to-date and accessible to all, but let me know if it
looks stale and/or you can't access it--it may have been turned off, or
placed behind a wall to avoid server overload. I could probably convince
the maintainers to start it up or open it up again, if people are
interested.
A little more about the methodology we used to gather these data is
available in our 2013 OpenSym papers[1][2]
Hope that helps,
Jonathan
1.
http://pensivepuffin.com/dwmcphd/papers/Morgan.ProjectTalk.WikiSym2013.pdf
2.
http://pensivepuffin.com/dwmcphd/syllabi/info447_wi14/readings/08-Organizin…
*a minor miracle for an academic prototype system
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe that Operation Majestic Titan, a subproject within Wikiproject
> Military History, was operating at level 5 for awhile, largely thanks to
> the work of a small number of high-frequency contributors. Perhaps there
> were and are other projects active in this manner. Also, the Signpost, when
> it is going well -- it has ups and downs -- functions at level 5.
>
> J-Mo, is there a chance that I can set up a meeting with you in a month or
> two to discuss using Quarry to extract Wikiproject activity data on a
> semi-automated basis, if that's possible?
>
> Pine
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Kerry Raymond <kerry.raymond(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I would say that projects have a number of levels of activity:
>>
>> 1. dead
>> 2. someone is running around tagging articles with the Project banner
>> 3. there is genuine conversation (not just spam) on their Project talk
>> 4. there is some kind of To-Do list that gets added to
>> 5. items actually come off the To-Do list because they've been done
>>
>> In my own editing, I've never seen level 5. I know of a few at levels 3
>> and 4. There's a lot of level 2 and many are dead. I think you'd need a
>> project at least at level 3 to make it worthwhile to point a newbie at it,
>> but that's no guarantee that the conversation taking place will be
>> encouraging or welcoming.
>>
>> While I say I have never seen level 5, I am nonetheless aware of very
>> small groups of editors that act like they have a mission but seem to
>> coordinate via User Talk than a project page. I must say I tend to operate
>> in that mode because I find the formalised projects attract too many people
>> who want to "lay down the rules to everyone else" rather than get on and do
>> the job.
>>
>> Kerry
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wiki-research-l [mailto:wiki-research-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org]
>> On Behalf Of Yaroslav M. Blanter
>> Sent: Saturday, 9 January 2016 2:34 AM
>> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <
>> wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Community health statistics of Wikiprojects
>>
>> On 2016-01-08 07:27, Samuel Klein wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 12:45 AM, Jonathan Cardy
>> > <werespielchequers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> More broadly it would be good to know if wikiprojects are good for
>> >> editor recruitment and retention. My hypothesis is that if someone if
>> >> someone tries out editing Wikipedia and is steered to an active and
>> >> relevant wikiproject then they will be more likely to continue after
>> >> that first trial edit. I simply don't know whether introducing people
>> >> to inactive wikiprojects is worthwhile or what the cutoff is on
>> >> activity.
>> >
>> > That's probably right. I think a nice cutoff on activity would be:
>> > ask all wikiprojects to come up with a banner to show to a subset of
>> > newbies, to indicate how many newbies or impressions they want (what
>> > they think they can handle), and to create a page/section with an
>> > intro and projects for newbies, if they don't already have one. Any
>> > project that can manage this is welcome to get a few newbies to work
>> > with if they want, in my book.
>> >
>>
>> Actually, already knowing how many WikiProjects are alive (for example, I
>> watch several, and most of them are dead) would be already valuable.
>> May be even posting a question at the talk page of every WikiProject
>> whether the project is alive and able to set up smth would give the answer.
>> (Number of watchers certainly does not - many projects are watched by a lot
>> of inactive users).
>>
>> Cheers
>> Yaroslav
>>
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Just passing this along in case anyone is interested. The abstract mentions
the use of Wikipedia: "We infer regular users' interests from their
self-reported biographies that are publicly available and use Wikipedia
pages to ground these interests as fine-grained, disambiguated concepts."
https://research.facebook.com/publications/discovery-of-topical-authorities…
Pine
Forwarding.
Pine
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From: Rachel Farrand <rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 4:59 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: A Hands-on Estimation Exercise, With
Discussion: Feb 8th
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Please join for the following tech talk:
*Tech Talk**:* A Hands-on Estimation Exercise, With Discussion
*Presenter:* Joel Aufrecht
*Date:* February 8th, 2016
*Time: *18:30 UTC
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>
Link to live YouTube stream <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-zLwTez46M>
*IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office
*Summary: *Estimation is an unnatural activity for human brains, which tend
to hide our own ignorance from us. This brown-bag begins with an exercise,
adapted from Steve McConnell's software estimation training, in balancing
accuracy with precision. The exercise is fully available to remotees.
Facilitated discussion follows, on what we can learn from the exercise and
on general estimation and forecasting topics as raised.
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Hey folks,
(Cross-posted to a number of mailing lists)
Last December, I sent out an invitation to
[[m:Grants:IdeaLab/Future_IdeaLab_Campaigns|help determine future ideaLab
campaigns]] by submitting and voting on different possible topics. I'm
happy to announce the results of your participation (<
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Future_IdeaLab_Campaigns/Res…>)
and encourage you to review them and our next steps for implementing those
campaigns this year. Thank you to everyone who volunteered their time to
participate, submit, and comment on campaign topics.
With great thanks,
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>
Hi all,
I'm currently conducting some research on self-identified women editors and their work on Wikipedia English. Despite all the research/media discussing how few women edit, very little is known about the experiences of women who actively edit Wikipedia. To better understand the gender gap-- and how to address it-- much more needs to be known about women editors' experiences and perspectives. For more information about the study, you can visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Beyond_the_Gender_Gap:_Understandi…
If you are an editor who 1) self-identifies as a woman in Wikipedia, 2) has been actively editing enwiki for 2+ years, and 3) would be willing to be interviewed about your experiences, please consider participating. The interview would take place over Skype, phone, or email, and your involvement would be voluntary, confidential, and much appreciated! For more information or to participate in the study, please email Danielle at mcdona51(a)purdue.edu.
Warm regards,
Danielle
Danielle Corple
Research Assistant, Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Brian Lamb School of Communication
Purdue University
Office: Beering 2167