Hi everybody,
We’re preparing for the May 2016 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201605 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. This issue won’t be published before Saturday (May 28), possibly a bit later. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome.
Highlights from this month:
• Accepted papers @ ICWSM 2016
• “En Wikipedia no se escribe jugando”: Identidad y motivación en 10 wikipedistas regiomontanos
• A Multilingual Approach to Discover Cross-Language Links in Wikipedia
• Analysing temporal evolution of interlingual wikipedia article pairs
• Beyond the Book: Linking Books to Wikipedia
• Cell (Biology)-Wikipedia Learning Performance In Relation To Cognitive Styles, Learning Styles, And Science Ability Of Students: A Hierarchical Multiple Regression Analysis
• Connecting every bit of knowledge: The structure of Wikipedia's First Link Network
• Derivation of “is a” taxonomy from Wikipedia Category Graph
• Does Wikipedia matter? The effect of Wikipedia on tourist choices
• Enabling Fine-grained RDF Data Completeness Assessment
• Evaluating Link-based Recommendations for Wikipedia
• Extracting Representative Phrases from Wikipedia Article Sections
• Factors that influence the teaching use of Wikipedia in higher education
• Finding Member Articles for Wikipedia Lists
• Fostering Voluntary Contributions to a Public Good: A Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment at Wikipedia
• How the structure of Wikipedia articles influences user navigation
• Linked Data Quality of DBpedia, Freebase,OpenCyc, Wikidata, and YAGO
• Profiling vandalism in Wikipedia: A Schauerian approach to justification
• Troublesome tools: How can Wikipedia editing enhance student teachers’ digital skills?
• Using Wikipedia page views to explore the cultural importance of global reptiles
• Validação discursiva da informação
• What Makes Wikipedia's Volunteer Editors Volunteer?
• Where do DOI clicks come from?
• Wiki Editors’ Acceptance of AdditionalGuidance on Talk Pages — Extended Abstract
• Wikidata through the Eyes of Dbpedia
• Wikipedia and conceptions of knowledge in encyclopaedism
• Wikipedia and the ecosystem of knowledge
• Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness
• Wikipedia as a Tool for 21st Century Teaching and Learning
• Wikipedia traffic data and electoral prediction: towards theoretically informed models
• Wikipedia: Medium and Model of Collaborative Public Diplomacy
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
Hi Kaldari,
Thanks for pinging us. :)
I responded on the thread but just to recap here as well: there has been
solid research to understand how badges can be used to incentivize users in
some other websites in the past (look at this work
<https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/www13-badges.pdf>, for example),
and I do believe we can/should revive an effort to understand the impact of
barnstars in Wikipedia better. The most important step for any effort which
is to be successful in practice would be to get the Wikipedia culture
component right.
Ashton Anderson, one of the authors of the paper above, recently gave a
talk about this research at Wiki Research Workshop at WWW, and we had some
early discussions about how we can adapt that research to Wikipedia. From
my offline discussions and the few comments on the thread you shared, there
seems to be at least some community interest in this area, which is great.
:) I'll follow up with Ashton.
Best,
Leila
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On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> I think what they really want is research about whether or not WikiLove
> has a positive impact on editing. I vaguely remember there being a paper a
> while back about the positive effect of barnstars, which may be of interest
> to the discussion, but I'm not aware of anything about the effects of
> WikiLove specifically.
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Jonathan Morgan <jmorgan(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I was on that project. I just marked it as complete. I'll respond on Meta
>> as well.
>>
>> Do you have an idea of what kind of research they're looking for, Kaldari?
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Madhumitha Viswanathan <
>> mviswanathan(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure if Analytics worked on this - adding the research list.
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The folks on Meta are considering whether or not to enable WikiLove and
>>>> they were hoping to find some data about it. There is a research project on
>>>> Meta about WikiLove (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:WikiLove),
>>>> but it seems to have been "in progress" since 2011. Could someone in
>>>> Analytics update that page to indicate that it is no longer in progress (or
>>>> finish whatever piece was still ongoing)?
>>>>
>>>> It would also be great if someone from Analytics could respond to the
>>>> questions and comments about the research data at
>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLove#Support_for_another_discussion_abo…
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
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I posted on the talkpage, offering to provide any information I have, and
asking about the need for research.
I'm not aware of any research that has explicitly tested that hypothesis.
And the Barnstar paper is... controversial... among wiki researchers.
I wonder if there's a concern that implementing WikiLove will cause some
sort of harm to the wiki?
Jonathan
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> I think what they really want is research about whether or not WikiLove
> has a positive impact on editing. I vaguely remember there being a paper a
> while back about the positive effect of barnstars, which may be of interest
> to the discussion, but I'm not aware of anything about the effects of
> WikiLove specifically.
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Jonathan Morgan <jmorgan(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I was on that project. I just marked it as complete. I'll respond on Meta
>> as well.
>>
>> Do you have an idea of what kind of research they're looking for, Kaldari?
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Madhumitha Viswanathan <
>> mviswanathan(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure if Analytics worked on this - adding the research list.
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The folks on Meta are considering whether or not to enable WikiLove and
>>>> they were hoping to find some data about it. There is a research project on
>>>> Meta about WikiLove (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:WikiLove),
>>>> but it seems to have been "in progress" since 2011. Could someone in
>>>> Analytics update that page to indicate that it is no longer in progress (or
>>>> finish whatever piece was still ongoing)?
>>>>
>>>> It would also be great if someone from Analytics could respond to the
>>>> questions and comments about the research data at
>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLove#Support_for_another_discussion_abo…
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Analytics mailing list
>>>> Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> --Madhu :)
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>>
>>
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I'm not sure if Analytics worked on this - adding the research list.
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> The folks on Meta are considering whether or not to enable WikiLove and
> they were hoping to find some data about it. There is a research project on
> Meta about WikiLove (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:WikiLove),
> but it seems to have been "in progress" since 2011. Could someone in
> Analytics update that page to indicate that it is no longer in progress (or
> finish whatever piece was still ongoing)?
>
> It would also be great if someone from Analytics could respond to the
> questions and comments about the research data at
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLove#Support_for_another_discussion_abo…
> .
>
> Thanks!
>
> _______________________________________________
> Analytics mailing list
> Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
>
>
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Dear Wikimedia research community,
If you ever thought of organizing a small event, print some stickers, or
any other activity for the good of Wikimedia that costed money, now Rapid
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Date: Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:39 AM
Subject: [Wmfall] Fwd: [CE] Announcing Rapid Grants
To: "Staff (All)" <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
(I actually think this is news worth sharing with the entire org.)
Folks, many of you will have a chance to direct volunteers to this
program. Please consider taking a minute to get to know it.
Cheers,
A.
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Date: Tue, May 17, 2016 at 9:01 PM
Subject: [CE] Announcing Rapid Grants
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Hi Team!
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Please help spread the word about the program!
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Ariel Glenn WMF, 04/05/2016 14:33:
> You can access it at http://wikimedia.crc.nd.edu/other/ so please do!
Great news, especially because it's ten times faster than
dumps.wikimedia.org! Finally, every time I need a dataset to quickly
verify a sudden idea I have, the download becomes a matter of minutes
rather than hours.
Nemo
We are glad to announce our invited speaker lineup and 19 papers accepted
at the wiki research workshop <http://snap.stanford.edu/wikiworkshop2016/> we
will be hosting on May 17, 2016 at the *10th International AAAI Conference
on Web and Social Media* (ICWSM '16 <http://www.icwsm.org/2016/>) in
Cologne, Germany. If you're attending the conference and interested in
Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia research, please consider registering for
the workshop. This is the second part of a workshop previously hosted at WWW
'16 <http://www.icwsm.org/2016/> in Montréal, Canada, in April. For more
information, you can visit the workshop's website
<http://snap.stanford.edu/wikiworkshop2016/> or follow us on Twitter (
@wikiworkshop16 <https://twitter.com/wikiworkshop16>).
Invited speakers <http://snap.stanford.edu/wikiworkshop2016/#speakers-icwsm>
- *Ofer Arazy* (*University of Haifa*) Emergent Work in Wikipedia
- *Jürgen Pfeffer* (*TU Munich*) Applying Social Network Analysis
Metrics to Large-Scale Hyperlinked Data
- *Martin Potthast* (*Universität Weimar*) Wikipedia Text Mining:
Uncovering Quality and Reuse
- *Fabian Suchanek* (*Télécom ParisTech*) A Hitchhiker's Guide to
Ontology
- *Claudia Wagner* (*GESIS*) Gender Inequalities in Wikipedia
Accepted papers <http://snap.stanford.edu/wikiworkshop2016/#papers-icwsm>
- *Yashaswi Pochampally, Kamalakar Karlapalem and Navya Yarrabelly*
Semi-Supervised Automatic Generation of Wikipedia Articles for Named
Entities
- *Joan Guisado-Gámez, Josep Lluís Larriba-Pey, David Tamayo and Jordi
Urmeneta*
ENRICH: A Query Expansion Service Powered by Wikipedia Graph Structure
- *Ioannis Protonotarios, Vasiliki Sarimpei and Jahna Otterbacher*
Similar Gaps, Different Origins? Women Readers and Editors at Greek
Wikipedia
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*Sven Heimbuch and Daniel Bodemer *Wiki Editors' Acceptance of Additional
Guidance on Talk Pages
- *Yerali Gandica, Renaud Lambiotte and Timoteo Carletti*
What Can Wikipedia Tell Us about the Global or Local Character of
Burstiness?
- *Andreas Spitz, Vaibhav Dixit, Ludwig Richter, Michael Gertz and
Johanna Geiß*
State of the Union: A Data Consumer's Perspective on Wikidata and Its
Properties for the Classification and Resolution of Entities
- *Finn Årup Nielsen*
Literature, Geolocation and Wikidata
- *Ana Freire, Matteo Manca, Diego Saez-Trumper, David Laniado, Ilaria
Bordino, Francesco Gullo and Andreas Kaltenbrunner*
Graph-Based Breaking News Detection on Wikipedia
- *Alexander Dallmann, Thomas Niebler, Florian Lemmerich and Andreas
Hotho*
Extracting Semantics from Random Walks on Wikipedia: Comparing Learning
and Counting Methods
- *Arpit Merchant, Darshit Shah and Navjyoti Singh*
In Wikipedia We Trust: A Case Study
- *Thomas Palomares, Youssef Ahres, Juhana Kangaspunta and Christopher
Ré*
Wikipedia Knowledge Graph with DeepDive
- *Lu Xiao*
Hidden Gems in the Wikipedia Discussions: The Wikipedians' Rationales
- *Sooyoung Kim and Alice Oh*
Topical Interest and Degree of Involvement of Bilingual Editors in
Wikipedia
- *Lambert Heller, Ina Blümel, Simone Cartellieri and Christian Wartena*
A Proposed Solution for Discovery of Reusable Technology Pictures Using
Textmining of Surrounding Article Text, Based on the Infrastructure of
Wikidata, Wikisource and Wikimedia Commons
- *Behzad Tabibian, Mehrdad Farajtabar, Isabel Valera, Le Song, Bernhard
Schölkopf and Manuel Gomez Rodriguez*
On the Reliability of Information and Trustworthiness of Web Sources in
Wikipedia
- *Ruth Garcia Gavilanes, Milena Tsvetkova and Taha Yasseri*
Collective Remembering in Wikipedia: The Case of Aircraft Crashes
- *Elena Labzina*
The Political Salience Dynamics and Users' Interaction Using the Example
of Wikipedia within the Authoritarian Regime Context
- *Fabian Flöck and Maribel Acosta*
WikiLayers – A Visual Platform for Analyzing Content Evolution and
Editing Dynamics in Wikipedia
- *Olga Zagarova, Tatiana Sennikova, Claudia Wagner and Fabian Flöck*
Cultural Relation Mining on Wikipedia: Beyond Culinary Analysis
OrganizersBob West, *Stanford University & Wikimedia Foundation*Leila
Zia, *Wikimedia
Foundation*Dario Taraborelli, *Wikimedia Foundation*Jure Leskovec, *Stanford
University*
Hello fellow list members,
Are you aware of any qualitative studies that do research on the
experiences and/or problems of new/yet unexperienced Wikipedia authors?
I searched on scholar and informally asked some colleges. The best I found
were some surveys with free text fields (which were already pretty
interesting) but I wonder if there are any interview/observation based
studies with a more formal analysis of data (e.g. thematic analysis or
Grounded Theory etc.)
Kind Regards,
Jan
PS: Since I'm new to the list: I recently started working as designer and
user researcher at Wikimedia Deutschland and since I use qualitative and
quantitative methods as part of my work I'm looking forward to participate
in the discussions on this list.
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