Wiki-research-l October 2017

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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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[Analytics] Beeline as Hive client
by Madhumitha Viswanathan 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

Hi all, For all Hive users using stat1002/1004, you might have seen a deprecation warning when you launch the hive client - that claims it's being replaced with Beeline. The Beeline shell has always been available to use, but it required supplying a database connection string every time, which was pretty annoying. We now have a wrapper <https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-puppet/blob/production/modules/role…> script setup to make this easier. The old Hive CLI will continue to exist, but we encourage moving over to Beeline. You can use it by logging into the stat1002/1004 boxes as usual, and launching `beeline`. There is some documentation on this here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Cluster/Beeline. If you run into any issues using this interface, please ping us on the Analytics list or #wikimedia-analytics or file a bug on Phabricator <http://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/analytics>. (If you are wondering stat1004 whaaat - there should be an announcement coming up about it soon!) Best, --Madhu :)

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What percentage of digital assistants cite Wikipedia?
by Stella Yu 09 Jun '18

09 Jun '18

Curious, what percentage of digital assistants (Alexa, Siri, Cortana, Google) cite Wikipedia when a person asks a question? Does the current Wikipedia mobile app support voice search? Are there any reports on this? Thanks in advance! Sincere regards, Stella -- Stella Yu | STELLARESULTS | 415 690 7827 "Chronicling heritage brands and legendary people."

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

18 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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Editor participation rates in surveys
by Juliana Bastos Marques 01 Nov '17

01 Nov '17

Hi all! I am looking for any discussions/data about participation rates in research surveys directed towards editors. I'd like to see if there's a consistent rate, or not, in responses per target group. Can anybody help me with this? Thank you, Juliana -- www.domusaurea.org

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RfC to add "Wikipedia is not a laboratory" to WP:NOT on enwiki
by Rhododendrites 24 Oct '17

24 Oct '17

Hi research-l, I came across this discussion on enwiki relevant to this list. The proposal is to add a section to the "What Wikipedia is NOT" page which would put in place guidelines and requirements for people researching Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:What_Wikipedia_is_not#RFC:Wiki…

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The July 2017 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
by masssly＠ymail.com 22 Oct '17

22 Oct '17

The July 2017 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/15/research-newsletter-july-2017/ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2017/July In this issue: 1 "Problematizing and Addressing the Article-as-Concept Assumption in Wikipedia" 2 Briefly 2.1 85% of German scientists use Wikipedia, and other European media survey results *** 12 recent publications were covered or listed in this issue *** Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli --- Wikimedia Research Newsletter https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/ * Follow us on Twitter: @WikiResearch * Like us on Facebook: Facebook.com/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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Oct 12th: 11th DBpedia Community Meeting
by Sebastian Hellmann 06 Oct '17

06 Oct '17

[apologies for cross posting] 11th DBpedia Community Meeting On October 12th we will organize the 3rd US DBpedia Community Meeting (and SF Bay Area Knowledge Graphs meetup). The meetup focuses on connecting the community interested in DBpedia and Knowledge Graphs in general, has included lightning talks by distinguished speakers (e.g. from Stanford, Google, IBM Watson, Netflix, LinkedIn, Wikimedia Foundation, Nuance, etc.). Talk topics have extended also to natural language processing, knowledge representation, information extraction, integration and retrieval, graph databases, knowledge base embeddings and machine learning. * Quick Facts * - Web URL:http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/California2017 - What: DBpedia Community Meeting and Bay Area Knowledge Graphs Meetup - Hashtag: #DBpediaCA - When: October 12th, 6:30pm - 10:00pm - Where: Apple Inc., De Anza 3 Theater and Atrium (1st floor) 10500 N De Anza Blvd Cupertino, CA 95014-2033 United States * Tickets * - Registration: through eventbrite(limited seats) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/11th-dbpedia-community-meeting-in-california-2… * Program * Please check the schedule for the 11th DBpedia Community Meeting here: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/California2017 This year we’re hosted by Apple Inc. We are looking forward to meeting you in California! DBpedia Organizing Committee

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Wiki Studies 1:1 Released
by Robert E. Cummings 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

Hi All: I write to announce that Wiki Studies 1:1 is now published: http://wikistudies.org As readers of this list may recall, Wiki Studies is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal focusing on the intersection of Wikipedia and higher education. Our first issue features four articles: three are case studies and one is a corpus analysis. Comments, suggestions, and inquires are welcome at cummings(a)olemiss.edu. Please consider registering<http://wikistudies.org/index.php/wikistudies/user/register> at our OJS site for automatic updates. Yours, Robert Cummings Editor

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sharing my project "Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory" / grant application
by Marc Miquel 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

Hello everyone, My name is Marc Miquel and I am a researcher from Barcelona (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). While I was doing my PhD I studied whether an identity-based motivation could be important for editor participation and I analyzed content representing the editors' cultural context in 40 Wikipedia language editions. Few months later, I propose creating the *Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory* in order to raise awareness on Wikipedia’s current state of cultural diversity, providing datasets, visualizations and statistics, and pointing out solutions to improve intercultural coverage. I am presenting this project to a grant and I expect that the site becomes a useful tool to help communities create more multicultural encyclopaedias and bridge the content culture gap that exists across language editions. Here is the link of the project proposal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikipedia_Cultural_Diversity… If you like the project, I'd ask you to endorse it. In any case, I will appreciate any feedback, comments,... Of course, you are invited to become participants, as there will be the need for users in the testing part. Thanks in advance for your time! Best regards, Marc Miquel Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona ᐧ

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