Wiki-research-l June 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 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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Nazi propaganda material
by Gerard Meijssen 28 Jun '18

28 Jun '18

Hoi, In the thirties and forties of the 20th Century the NSB was the Dutch Nazi organisation. It produced a lot of propaganda material. This material is now available on Commons and it is available for study and illustration. Thanks, GerardM http://td35.tripolis.com/public/r/CIeGfz2qlOjS1oj4gCOU3w/V_GjVcXxLN9UrKrHOH…

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The May 2018 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai 26 Jun '18

26 Jun '18

The May 2018 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/06/24/wikimedia-research-newsletter-may-201… https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2018/May In this issue: 1 Understanding participation gaps: Why users don’t hear of Wikipedia, don’t visit it, don’t know they can edit, and don’t contribute 2 Edit-a-thon participants are motivated by desire to change the views of society 3 "Evaluating Wikipedia as a self-learning resource for statistics: You know they'll use it" 4 "Wikipedia as a Pedagogical Tool: Complicating Writing in the Technical Writing Classroom" 5 "When the World Helps Teach Your Class: Using Wikipedia to Teach Controversial Issues" 6 Briefly 6.1 Running the numbers 6.2 Rhythms *** 11 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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CICM 2018, Call for Contributions to doctoral programme, work-in-progress, posters, demos, tutorial
by serge.autexier＠dfki.de 22 Jun '18

22 Jun '18

Call for Contributions work-in-progress - posters - demos - tutorials - doctoral programme 11th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2018 - August 13-17, 2018 RISC, Hagenberg, Austria http://www.cicm-conference.org/2018 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CICM focuses on theoretical and practical solutions for mathematical applications such as computation, deduction, knowledge management, libraries, and user interfaces. CICM 2018 will feature 3 invited speakers: * Akiko Aizawa, National Institute of Informatics, University of Tokyo * Bruno Buchberger, Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Johannes Kepler University * Adri Olde Daalhuis, University of Edinburgh and 6 affiliated workshops: * Computer Algebra in the age of Types * Computer Mathematics in Education - Enlightenment or Incantation * Formal Mathematics for Mathematicians * Formal Verification of Physical Systems * Mathematical Models and Mathematical Software as Research Data * OpenMath Workshop In addition to the above and the formally reviewed program, CICM invites contributions of various forms: 1) Work-in-progress papers (any length up to 15 pages) will be lightly reviewed and, if accepted, presented at the conference and published in a volume of CEUR-WS. 2) Demos and posters (submitted as a summary of a few paragraphs) will be presented during a dedicated session. Submission is open to any topic interesting to the CICM audience. We also encourage authors of accepted papers to supplement their talk with a demo or poster. 3) Tutorials (up to 60 minutes, submitted as a summary of a few paragraphs) will take place in individual rooms during a dedicated session. 4) Doctoral program submissions (2 page abstract + CV) will be presented and discussed during a dedicated session focusing on mentoring. Submission is open to any doctoral student in the CICM area. Student authors of accepted papers are strongly encouraged to additionally submit to the doctoral program. Financial support for doctoral program participants is available. All submissions should be made via easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2018 Notifications are sent on a rolling basis. The last day to submit is July 15.

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a video from the Foundation's Research Showcase
by James Salsman 19 Jun '18

19 Jun '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1sSzKKoHB8 Best regards, Jim

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Fwd: Modeling interactions on talk pages and detecting early signs of conversational failure: Research Showcase - June 18, 2018 (11:30 AM PDT| 18:30 UTC)
by Dario Taraborelli 18 Jun '18

18 Jun '18

Hey everyone, we're hosting a dedicated session in June on our joint work with Cornell and Jigsaw on predicting conversational failure <https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05345> on Wikipedia talk pages. This is part of our contribution to WMF's Anti-Harassment program. The showcase <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#June_2018> will be live-streamed <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4vzI0k4OSg> on *Monday, June 18, 2018* at 11:30 AM (PDT), 18:30 (UTC). (Please note this falls on a Monday this month). Conversations Gone Awry. Detecting Early Signs of Conversational FailureBy *Justine Zhang and Jonathan Chang, Cornell University*One of the main challenges online social systems face is the prevalence of antisocial behavior, such as harassment and personal attacks. In this work, we introduce the task of predicting from the very start of a conversation whether it will get out of hand. As opposed to detecting undesirable behavior after the fact, this task aims to enable early, actionable prediction at a time when the conversation might still be salvaged. To this end, we develop a framework for capturing pragmatic devices—such as politeness strategies and rhetorical prompts—used to start a conversation, and analyze their relation to its future trajectory. Applying this framework in a controlled setting, we demonstrate the feasibility of detecting early warning signs of antisocial behavior in online discussions. Building a rich conversation corpus from Wikipedia Talk pagesWe present a corpus of conversations that encompasses the complete history of interactions between contributors to English Wikipedia's Talk Pages. This captures a new view of these interactions by containing not only the final form of each conversation but also detailed information on all the actions that led to it: new comments, as well as modifications, deletions and restorations. This level of detail supports new research questions pertaining to the process (and challenges) of large-scale online collaboration. As an example, we present a small study of removed comments highlighting that contributors successfully take action on more toxic behavior than was previously estimated. YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4vzI0k4OSg As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And, you can watch our past research showcases here <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhV3K_DS5YfLQLgwU3oDFiGaU3K7pUVoW>. Hope to see you there on June 18! Dario

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Analysis on the "thanks" feature, location of revision data?
by Maximilian Klein 14 Jun '18

14 Jun '18

Hi Everyone, I've been performing some analysis on the "thank a user for an edit" feature which was introduced in 2013, but have run into a data availability hurdle. I'm able to easily retrieve all the "thanks" that happened using the database replicas by searching the logging table with "log_type = 'thanks'" criteria. However these entries only shows who thanked who, and when. I don't see recorded which *revision* was being thanked. Does anyone know where I might find this data? Make a great day, Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/

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EventStreams offset reset - June 14 2018
by Andrew Otto 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

Alright, we are now ready to do this. New date: June 14 2018, around 14:00 UTC. On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 9:31 AM, Andrew Otto <otto(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi, > > We need to delay this switchover. We’ve made some changes to the plan > that require a bit more prep work. Follow https://phabricator. > wikimedia.org/T185225 for more details. > > I’ll reply with another announcement email when we set a new date. > > - Andrew Otto > Senior Systems Engineer, WMF > > > > On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:43 AM, Andrew Otto <otto(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> Hi all! >> >> *If you are not an active user of the EventStreams service, you can >> ignore this email.* >> >> We’re in the process of upgrading >> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152015> the backend infrastructure >> that powers the EventStreams service. When we switch EventStreams to >> the new infrastructure <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185225>, the >> ‘offsets’ AKA Last-Event-IDs will change. >> >> Connected EventStreams SSE clients will reconnect and not be able to >> automatically consume from the exact position in the stream where they left >> off. Instead, reconnecting clients will begin consuming from the latest >> messages in the stream. This means that connected clients will likely miss >> any messages that occurred during the reconnect period. Hopefully this >> will be a very small number of messages, as your SSE client should >> reconnect quickly. >> >> This switch is scheduled to happen on June 5 2018, at around 17:30 UTC. >> >> Let us know if you have any questions. >> >> Thanks! >> - Andrew Otto >> Senior Systems Engineer, WMF >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >

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Building tools, services and datasets that respect deleted and suppressed revisions
by Yiqing Hua 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

Hello, Lucas (cc'd) and I have been working on tools and corpora that transform wiki revision dumps into structured conversations; as part of this, we want to make sure any down-stream services and corpora that we develop respect the deleted (and suppressed) revisions; namely that we remove any copies we have of things deleted on Wikipedia. For that we need a way to: 1. get all revisions IDs that were deleted or suppressed (or all non-deleted and non-suppressed ones) 2. have a way to get new deletions or suppresions so that we can remove any copies that we have. What's the right infrastructure/APIs to use for this? Thanks!

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