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
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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Ignore my request. The penny dropped. I needed the iwlinks table
https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/28618
Kerry
From: Kerry Raymond [mailto:kerry.raymond@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, 30 July 2018 12:53 PM
To: 'Research into Wikimedia content and communities'
<wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Quarry query
I'm trying to work out how to link an en.WP article to its commons category
using Quarry (the end purpose is create the datasets needed for Wiki Loves
Monuments in time for September).
I managed to get this far
https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/28618
which tells me which Wikipedia articles I need and whether they have a
commons category template but it doesn't get me to the actual commons
category itself. Now if I look at any of these articles in the browser in
the normal way, I can see a link to the Commons category on the left-hand
tool bar, but I can't figure out which table in Quarry has this connection.
Any pointers to the right table would be a great help. Surely I can't be the
first person to want to generate a table of data for WLM using Quarry.
Kerry
I'm trying to work out how to link an en.WP article to its commons category
using Quarry (the end purpose is create the datasets needed for Wiki Loves
Monuments in time for September).
I managed to get this far
https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/28618
which tells me which Wikipedia articles I need and whether they have a
commons category template but it doesn't get me to the actual commons
category itself. Now if I look at any of these articles in the browser in
the normal way, I can see a link to the Commons category on the left-hand
tool bar, but I can't figure out which table in Quarry has this connection.
Any pointers to the right table would be a great help. Surely I can't be the
first person to want to generate a table of data for WLM using Quarry.
Kerry
Of considerable interest:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326141291_Towards_an_inclusive_dig…
"Policy makers can use this transformational model to extend the reach
and effectiveness of Digital Inclusion through the last mile enhancing
existing training and service centers that offer the traditional model
of Digital Literacy Education.... This education model can be
replicated and scaled by the Digital India program by extending the
reach of existing rural Common Service Centers centers to reach remote
areas that lack infrastructure, thereby reaching the last mile for a
transformative impact across the nation."
I was particularly impressed with Figure 4: https://i.imgur.com/s30xY4C.png
Best regards,
Jim
Dear all,
I am working on a paper on why/whether people contribute (or not) to
collective intelligence differently projects in different countries. The
paper was inspired, partially, by several discussions I had with various
people on why different language Wikipedia's have different sizes,
besides (doh) the popularity of the language (and yes, English is
biggest because it is international; and yes, I am aware a few
Wikipedias are outliers because of bots creating machine translations or
auto-populating villages or such). But for example, Poland and South
Korea have roughly similar population/speakers and development status,
yet Polish Wikipedia is over 3x the size of the SK one and no bot can
account for that. So, there's more to that. I am already feeding dozens
of parameters to a spreadsheet for some modelling, but I a) wonder what
I might have missed - before a reviewer asks 'why didn't you check for
xyz' and b) would like to have a few nice sentences about how things
that people expect to matter do not (or vice versa). Hence, my question
to you all, in the form of this open question mini survey:
Why do you think different language Wikipedia's have different sizes,
outside of the popularity of a given language?
For reference, list of Wikipedias by size and language:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias
TIA!
--
Piotr Konieczny, PhD
http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKoniecznyhttp://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus
> Why do you think different language Wikipedia's have different
> sizes, outside of the popularity of a given language?
Piotr, if you model organic editing production with a Poisson
distribution, which is reasonable for a first approximation, 3x+
disparities are just natural for the same population sizes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution
I'm not sure the images in that article capture the wide platykurtosis
of large Poisson distributions.
Best regards,
Jim
