Wiki-research-l October 2018

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Results from 2018 global Wikimedia survey are published!
by Edward Galvez 05 Oct '18

05 Oct '18

Hi everyone, I'm excited to share that our annual survey about Wikimedia communities is now published! This survey included 170 questions and reaches over 4,000 community members across four audiences: Contributors, Affiliate organizers, Program Organizers, and Volunteer Developers. This survey helps us hear from the experience of Wikimedians from across the movement so that teams are able to use community feedback in their planning and their work. This survey also helps us learn about long term changes in communities, such as community health or demographics. The report is available on meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights/2018_Report For this survey, we worked with 11 teams to develop the questions. Once the results were analyzed, we spent time with each team to help them understand their results. Most teams have already identified how they will use the results to help improve their work to support you. The report could be useful for your work in the Wikimedia movement as well! What are you learning from the data? Take some time to read the report and share your feedback on the talk pages. We have also published a blog that you can read.[1] We are hosting a livestream presentation[2] on September 20 at 1600 UTC. Hope to see you there! Feel free to email me directly with any questions. All the best, Edward [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/09/13/what-we-learned-surveying-4000-c… [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGQtWFP9Cjc -- Edward Galvez Evaluation Strategist, Surveys Learning & Evaluation Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation -- Edward Galvez Evaluation Strategist, Surveys Learning & Evaluation Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation

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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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Wikipedia research on "productivity"
by Alex Yarovoy 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

I'm working on a research paper and one of the reviewers has commented that "There is even a Wikipedia measure called productivity, which is essentially the amount of text produced over time less the reverted text" Anybody familiar with that metric of "productivity"? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Ofer

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Job offers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
by Gosselck, Antje 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

Dear Sir or Madame, The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, offers several positions for post-docs and scientists in the departments of our directors, Emilio Zagheni and Mikko Myrskylae: https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/education_career/jobs_fellowships_1910/post_do… https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/education_career/jobs_fellowships_1910/post_do… We would highly appreciate it, if you could kindly post these job ads your website and distribute them to your friends and colleagues. Thanks a lot! Have a great day! With best regards, Antje Gosselck Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Konrad-Zuse-Str. 1 D-18057 Rostock Germany http://www.demogr.mpg.de mailto:gosselck@demogr.mpg.de Tel. +49 (0) 381 / 2081 108 Fax +49 (0) 381 / 2081 408 ---------- This mail has been sent through the MPI for Demographic Research. Should you receive a mail that is apparently from a MPI user without this text displayed, then the address has most likely been faked. If you are uncertain about the validity of this message, please check the mail header or ask your system administrator for assistance.

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Research about how to measure the effectiveness of user blocks
by Sydney Poore 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

The Community health initiative is starting a project to measure the effectiveness of blocks. The first step is to discuss with the wikimedia community ideas about how to do it. To that end, the Anti-Harassment Tools team and Morten Warncke-Wang have created space to discuss research ideas about user blocks. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_health_initiative/Measuring_the_e… AHT is particularly interested to learn whether the new partial blocks feature is successful as a ''tool or instrument''. Therefore, the first part of this research will mainly focused on the short term gains in the utility of partial blocks in order to understand whether it appears to be working and if there appears to be a need for changes. These measurements will provide us with insight quickly. Currently there is not much known about how sitewide blocks affect users. This makes a comparison of the effects of the new partial block feature to sitewide blocks difficult. To provide all of us with some insight, the Anti-Harassment Tools team would like to examine historical block data across wikimedia projects to establish a baseline. However, our list of measurements that we propose has a lot of longer term ones, e.g. surveys. These are important and should be considered to be implemented later, because they can provide all of us with insight that is otherwise hidden. Please on wiki to discuss these ideas and your ideas. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_health_initiative/Measuring_… For the Anti-Harassment Tools team and [[User:MWang (WMF)|Morten Warncke-Wang]]. Sydney Poore

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