Wiki-research-l September 2018

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[Wikimedia Research Showcase] Wednesday September 19, 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC
by Sarah R 19 Sep '18

19 Sep '18

Hi Everyone, The next Wikimedia Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday, September 19 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC. YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY8vZ6wES9o 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> Hope to see you there! This month's presentations is: The impact of news exposure on collective attention in the United States during the 2016 Zika epidemicBy *Michele Tizzoni, André Panisson, Daniela Paolotti, Ciro Cattuto*In recent years, many studies have drawn attention to the important role of collective awareness and human behaviour during epidemic outbreaks. A number of modelling efforts have investigated the interaction between the disease transmission dynamics and human behaviour change mediated by news coverage and by information spreading in the population. Yet, given the scarcity of data on public awareness during an epidemic, few studies have relied on empirical data. Here, we use fine-grained, geo-referenced data from three online sources - Wikipedia, the GDELT Project and the Internet Archive - to quantify population-scale information seeking about the 2016 Zika virus epidemic in the U.S., explicitly linking such behavioural signal to epidemiological data. Geo-localized Wikipedia pageview data reveal that visiting patterns of Zika-related pages in Wikipedia were highly synchronized across the United States and largely explained by exposure to national television broadcast. Contrary to the assumption of some theoretical models, news volume and Wikipedia visiting patterns were not significantly correlated with the magnitude or the extent of the epidemic. Attention to Zika, in terms of Zika-related Wikipedia pageviews, was high at the beginning of the outbreak, when public health agencies raised an international alert and triggered media coverage, but subsequently exhibited an activity profile that suggests nonlinear dependencies and memory effects in the relationship between information seeking, media pressure, and disease dynamics. This calls for a new and more general modelling framework to describe the interaction between media exposure, public awareness, and disease dynamics during epidemic outbreaks. Deliberation and resolution on WikipediaA case study of requests for commentsBy *Amy Zhang, Jane Im*Resolving disputes in a timely manner is crucial for any online production group. We present an analysis of Requests for Comments (RfCs), one of the main vehicles on Wikipedia for formally resolving a policy or content dispute. We collected an exhaustive dataset of 7,316 RfCs on English Wikipedia over the course of 7 years and conducted a qualitative and quantitative analysis into what issues affect the RfC process. Our analysis was informed by 10 interviews with frequent RfC closers. We found that a major issue affecting the RfC process is the prevalence of RfCs that could have benefited from formal closure but that linger indefinitely without one, with factors including participants' interest and expertise impacting the likelihood of resolution. From these findings, we developed a model that predicts whether -- Sarah R. Rodlund Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy> srodlund(a)wikimedia.org

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Fwd: Research about discretionary sanctions on ENWP
by Sydney Poore 18 Sep '18

18 Sep '18

From: Sydney Poore <spoore(a)wikimedia.org> To: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> Cc: wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Bcc: Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:20:40 -0400 Subject: Re: Research about discretionary sanctions on ENWP Hello Pine, You might want to record it in the IdeaLab to make sure that it considered for future reference when people are discussing ideas for research. Sydney On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 4:01 PM Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello colleagues, > > There is currently a small amount of discussion happening on an ENWP > arbitration page > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification_…> > regarding what ENWP calls "discretionary sanctions > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Discretionary…>" > practices. Does anyone know of research regarding the effects, good and > bad, of the Arbcom authorization of discretionary sanctions? If not, then I > suggest that this be a topic of future research, particularly for > researchers involved with WMF's work on community health. > > Thank you, > > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > -- Sydney Poore Trust and Safety Specialist Wikimedia Foundation Trust and Safety team; Anti-harassment tools team -- Sydney Poore Trust and Safety Specialist Wikimedia Foundation Trust and Safety team; Anti-harassment tools team

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Research about discretionary sanctions on ENWP
by Pine W 18 Sep '18

18 Sep '18

Hello colleagues, There is currently a small amount of discussion happening on an ENWP arbitration page <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification_…> regarding what ENWP calls "discretionary sanctions <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Discretionary…>" practices. Does anyone know of research regarding the effects, good and bad, of the Arbcom authorization of discretionary sanctions? If not, then I suggest that this be a topic of future research, particularly for researchers involved with WMF's work on community health. Thank you, Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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where did I read about predicting user conflicts?
by Kerry Raymond 18 Sep '18

18 Sep '18

Some time in the last few months (possibly at Wikimania) someone pointed me at some research about predicting the outcome of Wikipedia consensus building from the language they were using in Talk. I think it was either research in progress or recently completed. As I recall, the main "take home" message was that discussions where "you" started to be used tended to end up in conflict and that discussions that avoided "you" were more likely to resolve amicably. If this rings any bells for you, can you please point me at it please. Thanks Kerry

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Fwd: Results from 2018 global Wikimedia survey are published!
by Sydney Poore 17 Sep '18

17 Sep '18

From: Sydney Poore <spoore(a)wikimedia.org> To: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> Cc: wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Bcc: Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 10:25:39 -0400 Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Results from 2018 global Wikimedia survey are published! Hello Pine, Thanks for asking. I always will take the opportunity when given the chance to talk about the work that the Community health initiative, Trust & Safety, Legal, Research, Anti-Harassment Tools teams are doing around community health. :-) The work on Community health done by these teams is reflected in the Foundation's Annual Plan. Much of the work on community health is mentioned in the Community health CDP.1 But because community health is a large topic, other teams across the Foundation collaborate with these teams and also do work themselves directly or indirectly addressing community health. The CE Insights survey is a good example of that! Also, recently there was an Inspire Campaign about how to measure community health <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire> run by Community Resources team. 2 Speaking more directly to your comments, the Community health initiative has identified areas of focus that are related to the topics you mention. For example, early this fiscal year, a main focus is "Contributors and administrators are equipped with tools to make timely, informed decisions when harassment occurs." This builds on the work Antti-Harassment tools team began last year on the User Interaction Timeline tool and changes to Special:Block that add the ability for admins to do Partial blocks instead of site wide blocks. There is an on going discussion <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_health_initiative/Per-user_p…>with the community about how to design the new functionality into the tool. Currently this is a discussion about the best method to log partial blocks and the third set of designs are available for community feedback.3 Within the next week a discussion is going to start on Meta about how to measure the effectiveness of blocks. This will involve be both a long term and short term research projects with potentially many opportunities for collaboration. Look for upcoming announcements for more information. Another focus early this year is working with the community to develop a Community Health Metrics kit that will allow communities to measure quantitative data and satisfaction levels over time, and identify areas for improvement. There is a consultation starting today <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_health_initiative/Metrics_kit>.4 Joe Sutherland is the lead on the project and will be making the announcements. We welcome comments and questions here, on wiki, and by private email about the work that is underway or in planning. Warm regards, Sydney 1 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_health_initiative/Annual_plan_FY1… 2 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire 3 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_health_initiative/Per-user_p… 4 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_health_initiative/Metrics_kit On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 2:25 PM Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Edward, I'm surprised that this thread only appears in my email under > Research-l, but I can see in the WMF mail archives that you sent the email > to other lists also. I wonder if that happened because you used bcc. Maybe > there is a bug in Gmail. On the topic of diversity research, thanks for the > link to the team reports. I'll put those on my list of things that would be > good to browse. > > Regarding the topic of harassment that the person with the email > "80hnhtv4agou" raised, I think that it's good to ask what more could and > should be done. My view is that WMF shouldn't be directly intervening in > community activities, but WMF support for community self-governance is > welcome with actions such as developing better moderation tools and > providing financial support to affiliates and community members who want to > develop evidence-based training modules. Sydney Poore is on the > Anti-Harrassment Tools team and I'm pinging her here to invite her to add > any comments that she has. > > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > > > On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 5:45 PM Edward Galvez <egalvez(a)wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> Thanks for your note Pine. I believe I have already shared this on >> Wikimedia-l; I haven't shared to Announce, so I can do that. >> >> "Diversity" is multifaceted. I think that some areas offer some hope (e.g. >> program organizers & affiliate organizers have higher proportion of women >> and geographic representation), others I am not uncertain whether we put a >> lot of attention (Education & Age), and in others we are seeing little >> progress (gender on the projects). And perhaps some aren't even on our >> radar. I think many teams are still working to understand what are the >> problems and possible levers that can help us to bring change to these >> measures. Some of those teams include Contributors/Audiences team, >> Anti-Harassment Tools, Trust & Safety and Community Resources. Each of >> these teams bringing their own strengths and angles to the problem. I >> invite you to read the team reports >> < >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights/2018_Report/T… >> > >> . >> >> The research team is also working on finding a way to capture demographic >> data as well this year. While we gather this data through CE Insights it >> is >> not the most optimal way to measure demographic data. There was also the >> recent email by Erik Zachte about language diversity (Email subject: >> "Wikipedias, participation per language") Always to good to start to >> measure what you want to change. >> >> I also invite you (and perhaps everyone on this list) to reflect on: what >> numbers are most concerning for you related to diversity? What could you >> do >> to improve diversity on the projects? And decide how you would like to >> take >> action. >> >> Hope this helps! >> Edward >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 8:53 PM Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Hi Edward, >> > >> > Thanks for this publication. This research is likely to be of interest >> to >> > the WikimediaAnnounce-l (and by extension, Wikimedia-l) and Wikitech-l >> > subscribers, so I suggest that you cross-post this publication to those >> > lists. >> > >> > After reading this report, I have a question which may be challenging to >> > answer: what should we do to improve our diversity? Many of us, inside >> and >> > outside of WMF, have wanted to see progress on diversity metrics for >> years, >> > and I get the impression that while significant attention and resources >> are >> > being given to diversity, our progress has been disappointing. Perhaps >> > that's a subject that can be discussed further during the video >> > presentation, but I'd also be interested in hearing your comments here >> on >> > Research-l. >> > >> > Have a good weekend, >> > >> > Pine >> > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:07 PM Edward Galvez <egalvez(a)wikimedia.org> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Wiki-research-l mailing list >> > > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wiki-research-l mailing list >> > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > >> >> >> -- >> Edward Galvez >> Evaluation Strategist, Surveys >> Learning & Evaluation >> Community Engagement >> Wikimedia Foundation >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > -- Sydney Poore Trust and Safety Specialist Wikimedia Foundation Trust and Safety team; Anti-harassment tools team -- Sydney Poore Trust and Safety Specialist Wikimedia Foundation Trust and Safety team; Anti-harassment tools team

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Results from 2018 global Wikimedia survey arepublished!
by Pine W 17 Sep '18

17 Sep '18

I apologize for my continued confusion about what was written on which mailing list. I can mostly blame Gmail for not handling the bcc's like I think that it should. I referred to an email from 80hnhtv4agou in my previous post to Research-l, but that person sent their email to Wikitech-l. I am forwarding 80hnhtv4agou's email (below) to Research-l, and I invited 80hnhtv4agou to participate here. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: 80hnhtv4agou--- via Wikitech-l <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Date: Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 1:34 PM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Results from 2018 global Wikimedia survey arepublished! To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, < egalvez(a)wikimedia.org> Experience of harassment has not declined since 2017 and appears to remain steady At what point and time does the foundation step in, as some language editions do and stop the warring and abuse by users and administrators ? does the board know what is going on here ? and it is not just EN wikipedia, but in all l anguage editions as well.

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New viz.: Wikipedias, participation per language
by Erik Zachte 14 Sep '18

14 Sep '18

Hi all, I just published a new visualization: Wikipedias, compared by participation per language (= active editors per million speakers) There are several pages, one for a global overview https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/participation/d3_participation_global… one with breakdown by continent https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/participation/d3_participation_contin… You can also zoom in on one continent, by clicking on it Any feedback is welcome. Erik Zachte

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Upcoming reboot of stat* and notebook* hosts - Sept 13th
by Luca Toscano 11 Sep '18

11 Sep '18

Hi everybody, on Thursday Sept 13th (EU morning) I am planning to reboot the stat hosts (stat1004, stat1005 and stat1006) and the notebook hosts (notebook1003, notebook1004) for Linux kernel upgrades. Please let me know if this impacts your work in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203165 or on IRC (elukey - #wikimedia-analytics). Thanks! Luca

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language
by Pine W 10 Sep '18

10 Sep '18

Cross-posting to Research-l. Thank you Leila. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 12:43 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi all, Update time. Thank you all for your patience and support as we went through the different stages of the analysis for this study. We have now concluded the study based on the survey of the 14 Wikipedia languages [1]. Here is what will happen next: * We are doing some relatively major documentation at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Be… . The goal is to have that page and the sub-pages in a way that can be consumed more easily by audiences beyond researchers. I expect the pages to come to life almost completely on or before 2018-09-14. We will need the first couple of weeks of October for data and code documentation to make sure you have all the data you need for your languages to dig deeper if you choose to. By the end of October, please expect all documentation to be completed. * We are happy to try to give presentations about this research to your language community if there is interest on your end and we can make it work on our end. The priority will be given to languages that already participated in the study. If you want to sign up for one, please go to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Be… * Our November Research Showcase [2] will most likely be on this topic, so if you want to have a general overview of the results, keep an eye on that. * We have submitted a research paper to a peer-reviewed conference based on this work. There is an anonymization process for the reviews and in order to not break that we will wait until the results are out (towards the end of October) and only then put the full paper on arxiv, under CC BY-SA 4.0 or a more permissive license. * We are discussing with our collaborators to potentially set up a challenge for researchers to work with a subset of the data (anonymized/aggregated/...) to answer an interesting research questions. If you want to brainstorm with us about this, please drop a line at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Read… * Do you have an idea about how to more effectively disseminate this knowledge? please call it out. There is quite a bit of knowledge to share and we're honestly not 100% sure what the best way to do it is across a global movement. As a result, we're offering a mix of documentation, pinging points of contacts in each language so they're aware of them, general presentations, language specific presentations, as well as data documentation for you to be able to dig on your own deeper. Best, Leila, on behalf of the researchers (Florian Lemmerich, Diego Saez, Bob West, and myself) [1] ar, bn, de, en, es, he, hi, hu, ja, nl, ro, ru, uk, zh [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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I cannot upload files to wikipapers
by ABEL SERRANO JUSTE 07 Sep '18

07 Sep '18

Hi. I'm writing to this mailing list because it is listed in the side bar of the wikipapers site. Yesterday I created an account in wikipapers <http://wikipapers.referata.com/> and I am trying to upload an image to wikipapers, but when I try to upload a 10K B file I get this error: <You cannot upload this file, because you are currently using 110.26953125 MB of file space, and uploading it would exceed the allowed quota for your site (100 MB).> in fact it happens with any file, because even a 152 bytes files gives me this error. I haven't uploaded any file yet so I don't understand that error :S -- Saludos, Abel.

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