Wiki-research-l April 2018

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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 02 Oct '18

02 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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Invitation to attend: 2018 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) - Copenhagen, July 18-20, 2018
by agruzd＠gmail.com 24 Apr '18

24 Apr '18

(Apologies for cross-posting) The organizing committee of the 9th Annual International Conference on Social Media and Society (#SMSociety) invites you to visit wonderful Copenhagen on July 18-20, 2018 to experience scholarly inspiration and Nordic design excellence, architecture brilliance, gastronomic creativity, and social inclusiveness. The 2018 conference will be held at the Copenhagen Business School and hosted by the Centre for Business Data Analytics. This year's theme is on "Networked Influence and Virality - REVISITED". * Please register by May 1, 2018 to lock in the early-bird rate: <http://socialmediaandsociety.org/registration/> http://socialmediaandsociety.org/registration/ The Conference offers an intensive 3-day program including hands-on workshops, full & work-in-progress papers, panels, and posters featuring the latest in social media research. Our interdisciplinary community brings researchers from a wide variety of disciplines including Communication, Information Science, Education, Journalism, Management, Computer Science, Political Science, Sociology, Health, and other fields. This year, we are honoured to have a highly distinguished scholar and leader as our keynote speaker: * Prof. Karine Nahon - the elected president of the Israel Internet Association (ISOC-IL), an Associate Professor of Information Science in the Lauder School of Government and Ofer School of Communications at the Interdisciplinary Center at Herzliya (IDC), Israel, and an Affiliated Associate Professor in the Information School at University of Washington (UW). We hope you can join us for this exciting event and contribute to this emerging research area! If you have any questions about the conference, please email us at: <mailto:ask@socialmediaandsociety.org> ask(a)socialmediaandsociety.org or visit our website at http://socialmediaandsociety.org/ -- 2018 #SMSociety Organizing Committee: . Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University - Conference Chair . Ravi Vatrapu, Copenhagen Business School - Local Conference Chair . Jenna Jacobson, Ryerson University - Conference Chair . Philip Mai, Ryerson University - Conference Chair . Anabel Quan-Haase, Western University - Panel Chair . Luke Sloan, Cardiff University - Panel Chair . K. Hazel Kwon, Arizona State University -WIP Papers Chair . Jeff Hemsley, Syracuse University - WIP Papers Chair . Jaigris Hodson, Royal Roads University - Poster Chair

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weekly periodicity mode
by James Salsman 23 Apr '18

23 Apr '18

[Crossposting to Research and Analytics lists] Most Wikipedia articles with a weekly periodicity show more pageviews on a typical weekday than a weekend. Some articles associated with weekends (e.g. articles associated with a variety of hobbies) will show relatively fewer pave views on weekdays. Suppose I wanted to plot a heatmap with colors corresponding to the strength of the weekly periodicity of the pageviews of articles shown in different geographic locations. (1) Has anyone done anything like this before? (2) Is sufficient information available from the current logging regime? Finally, I would also like to ask for review of this summarization, please: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Technology%2FAnnual_P… Best regards, Jim

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Your feedback matters: Final reminder for the Wikimedia survey
by Edward Galvez 20 Apr '18

20 Apr '18

Hi everyone, This is our last reminder for you to complete the Wikimedia Communities & Contributors survey. * To those of you who have taken the survey - thank you so much! We really appreciate your responses. * *This survey is closing in less than three days on Sunday 22 April 2018.* *If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please complete the survey. The opinions you share will affect the work of the Wikimedia Foundation. * *Follow this link to take the survey: https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5ABs6WwrDHzAeLr?aud=DEV <https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5ABs6WwrDHzAeLr?aud=DEV>If you have already seen a similar message on Phabricator, Mediawiki.org, Discourse, or other platforms for volunteer developers, please don't take the survey twice. It is available in various languages and will take about 20 minutes to complete.You can find more information about this survey on the project page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights/About_CE_> and see how your feedback helps the Wikimedia Foundation support contributors like you. This survey is hosted by a third-party service and governed by this privacy statement <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights_2018_Sur…>. Please visit our frequently asked questions page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights/Frequently_as…> to find more information about this survey. Feel free to email me directly with any questions you may have.Thank you!Edward Galvez from the Community Engagement departmentWikimedia Foundation* -- Edward Galvez Evaluation Strategist, Surveys Learning & Evaluation Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation

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Fwd: nice Wikimedia Research presentation
by James Salsman 20 Apr '18

20 Apr '18

[sharing because the URL was obscured in the Google Hangout on Air yesterday.] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nicholas Vincent <nickvincent(a)u.northwestern.edu> Date: Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 8:00 AM Subject: Re: nice Wikimedia Research presentation To: James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> Hey Jim, Really glad you enjoyed the presentation! Here's the link to my personal website: http://www.nickmvincent.com and to our lab website (which I should probably add to the slides!) http://www.psagroup.org Best, Nick On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 2:15 AM James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Nick, > > I really enjoyed your presentation. > > What is your web address, obscured in the attached? > > Thank you! > > Best regards, > Jim

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Wiki Workshop 2018 Announcement and Call for Papers
by Leila Zia 19 Apr '18

19 Apr '18

Hi everyone, We are excited to announce that the 5th annual Wiki Workshop [1] will take place in Lyon on April 24, 2018 and as part of The Web Conference 2018 (a.k.a. WWW2018) [2]. You can access the call for papers at http://wikiworkshop.org/2018/#call . Please submit your ongoing or completed research related to Wikimedia projects to the workshop. Note that 2018-01-28 is the submission deadline if you want your paper to appear in the proceedings, and 2018-03-11 is for all other papers.[3] Following the past year's model, the workshop will have a set of invited talks (Jon Kleinberg and Markus Kroetzsch have already accepted our invitation [4] \o/), a poster session, and more. Questions and comments are welcome. Otherwise, we're looking forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you in Lyon in April. :) Best, Leila, on behalf of the organizers [5] [1] http://wikiworkshop.org/2018/ [2] https://www2018.thewebconf.org/ [3] http://wikiworkshop.org/2018/#dates [4] http://wikiworkshop.org/2018/#speakers [5] http://wikiworkshop.org/2018/#organization -- Leila Zia Senior Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation

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Research Showcase April 18, 2018 (11:30 AM PDT| 18:30 UTC)
by Sarah R 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

Hi Everyone, The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, April 18, 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC. YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1pa-pr6xis As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And, you can watch our past research showcases here. <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#Upcoming_Showcase> The Critical Relationship of Volunteer Created Wikipedia Content to Large-Scale Online CommunitiesBy *Nate TeBlunthuis*The extensive Wikipedia literature has largely considered Wikipedia in isolation, outside of the context of its broader Internet ecosystem. Very recent research has demonstrated the significance of this limitation, identifying critical relationships between Google and Wikipedia that are highly relevant to many areas of Wikipedia-based research and practice. In this talk, I will present a study which extends this recent research beyond search engines to examine Wikipedia’s relationships with large-scale online communities, Stack Overflow and Reddit in particular. I will discuss evidence of consequential, albeit unidirectional relationships. Wikipedia provides substantial value to both communities, with Wikipedia content increasing visitation, engagement, and revenue, but we find little evidence that these websites contribute to Wikipedia in return. Overall, these findings highlight important connections between Wikipedia and its broader ecosystem that should be considered by researchers studying Wikipedia. Overall, this talk will emphasize the key role that volunteer-created Wikipedia content plays in improving other websites, even contributing to revenue generation. The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System, a Closer LookBy *Nate TeBlunthuis*Do patterns of growth and stabilization found in large peer production systems such as Wikipedia occur in other communities? This study assesses the generalizability of Halfaker etal.’s influential 2013 paper on “The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System.” We replicate its tests of several theories related to newcomer retention and norm entrenchment using a dataset of hundreds of active peer production wikis from Wikia. We reproduce the subset of the findings from Halfaker and colleagues that we are able to test, comparing both the estimated signs and magnitudes of our models. Our results support the external validity of Halfaker et al.’s claims that quality control systems may limit the growth of peer production communities by deterring new contributors and that norms tend to become entrenched over time. Kindest regards, Sarah R. Rodlund Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation | Hic sunt leones srodlund(a)wikimedia.org

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bias relative to accuracy or populist centrism? (was re: The complete program of Wiki Workshop 2018 is live)
by James Salsman 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

>... Accepted papers > Christoph Hube and Besnik Fetahu > Detecting Biased Statements in Wikipedia > http://wikiworkshop.org/2018/papers/wikiworkshop2018_paper_1.pdf >... Hi Christoph and Besnik, Having worked with several thousand of Amazon Mechanical Turkers over the past year, I am not convinced that their opinions of bias, even in aggregate, are not biased. Did you take any steps to measure the bias against accuracy in your crowdworkers? Here is an example of what I expect they would get wrong: "Tax cuts allow consumers to increase their spending, which boosts aggregate demand." That statement, added by en:User:Bkwillwm in 2012,[1] is still part of the English Wikipedia's Economics article. However, the statement is strictly inaccurate, and heavily biased in favor of trickle-down economics and austerity policy.[2] It and statements like it, pervasive through many if not most of the popular language Wikipedias, directly support increases in income inequality, which in turn is a terrible scourge affecting both health[3] and economic growth.[4] How can you measure whether your crowdworkers are truly unbiased relative to accuracy, instead of just reflecting the propaganda-influenced whims of the populist center? Sincerely, James Salsman [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economics&diff=prev&oldid=511580… [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Economics/Archive_7#Tax_cut_claim_in_Fis… [3] http://talknicer.com/ehip.pdf [4] http://talknicer.com/egma.pdf

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