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
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Edward Galvez
Evaluation Strategist, Surveys
Learning & Evaluation
Community Engagement
Wikimedia Foundation
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Edward Galvez
Evaluation Strategist, Surveys
Learning & Evaluation
Community Engagement
Wikimedia Foundation
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 :)
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
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
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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