Wiki-research-l February 2019

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] Farewell, Erik!
by Leila Zia 07 Feb '19

07 Feb '19

Erik, It's been an incredible honor to work with you as a colleague and a volunteer. Thank you for the stats and all the conversations about categories, topics, languages, ..., but even more so for showing me the path and the purpose, time after time. I will dearly miss you in Wikimedia Foundation, and I hope that I can be a steward of what you stood for (or at least I can say that I will continue to try:). Enjoy your new endeavors and see you around. Regards, Leila On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 3:22 PM Christian Aistleitner <christian(a)quelltextlich.at> wrote: > > Hi Erik, > > Thank you for your work! > > When I first came across Wikistats, it completely blew my mind. Such a > huge collection of raw data turned into digestible information. It's > amazing, stunning, and above all: enlightening. > I've spent countless hours digging through Wikistats in awe. > > But besides the gargantuan effort that Wikistats represents, I even > more value your passion for the data and information it holds, your > second-to-none expertise on it, and your willingness to go through the > details and numbers with each and everyone, regardless where they come > from, your openness, your unbiased-ness, your constructive approach, > and your never-shying-away from discussions about the numbers and > trends. > > Enjoy your retirement from WMF, and seeing your blog post and your > tree mapping project, I'm sure it'll be an amazing "Unruhestand" :-) > > Have fun, > Christian > > > > On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 01:17:48PM -0800, Dario Taraborelli wrote: > > “[R]ecent revisions of an article can be peeled off to reveal older layers, > > which are still meaningful for historians. Even graffiti applied by vandals > > can by its sheer informality convey meaningful information, just like > > historians learned a lot from graffiti on walls of classic Pompei. Likewise > > view patterns can tell future historians a lot about what was hot and what > > wasn’t in our times. Reason why these raw view data are meant to be > > preserved for a long time.” > > > > Erik Zachte wrote these lines in a blog post > > <https://web.archive.org/web/20171018194720/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/…> > > almost > > ten years ago, and I cannot find better words to describe the gift he gave > > us. Erik retired <http://infodisiac.com/back_to_volunteer_mode.htm> this > > past Friday, leaving behind an immense legacy. I had the honor to work with > > him for several years, and I hosted this morning an intimate, tearful > > celebration of what Erik has represented for the Wikimedia movement. > > > > His Wikistats project <https://stats.wikimedia.org/>—with his signature > > pale yellow background we've known and loved since the mid 2000s > > <https://web.archive.org/web/20060412043240/https://stats.wikimedia.org/>—has > > been much more than an "analytics platform". It's been an individual > > attempt he initiated, and grew over time, to try and comprehend and make > > sense of the largest open collaboration project in human history, driven by > > curiosity and by an insatiable desire to serve data to the communities that > > most needed it. > > > > Through this project, Erik has created a live record of data describing the > > growth and reach of all Wikimedia communities, across languages and > > projects, putting multi-lingualism and smaller communities at the very > > center of his attention. He coined metrics such as "active editors" that > > defined the benchmark for volunteers, the Wikimedia Foundation, and the > > academic community to understand some of the growing pains and editor > > retention issues > > <https://web.archive.org/web/20110608214507/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/…> > > the movement has faced. He created countless reports—that predate by nearly > > a decade modern visualizations of online attention—to understand what > > Wikipedia traffic means in the context of current events like elections > > <https://web.archive.org/web/20160405055621/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2008/…> > > or public health crises > > <https://web.archive.org/web/20090708011216/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/…>. > > He has created countless > > <https://twitter.com/Infodisiac/status/1039244151953543169> visualizations > > <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/27/new-interactive-visualization-wikiped…> > > that show the enormous gaps in local language content and representation > > that, as a movement, we face in our efforts to build an encyclopedia for > > and about everyone. He has also made extensive use of pie charts > > <https://web.archive.org/web/20141222073751/http://infodisiac.com/blog/wp-co…>, > > which—as friends—we are ready to turn a blind eye towards. > > > > Most importantly, the data Erik has brougth to life has been cited over > > 1,000 times > > <https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=stats.wikimedia.org> > > in the scholarly literature. If we gave credit to open data creators in the > > same way as we credit authors of scholarly papers, Erik would be one of the > > most influential authors in the field, and I don't think it is much of a > > stretch to say that the massive trove of data and metrics Erik has made > > available had a direct causal role in the birth and growth of the academic > > field of Wikimedia research, and more broadly, scholarship of online > > collaboration. > > > > Like I said this morning, Erik -- you have been not only an invaluable > > colleague and a steward for the movement, but also a very decent human > > being, and I am grateful we shared some of this journey together. > > > > Please join me in celebrating Erik on his well-deserved retirement, read > > his statement <http://infodisiac.com/back_to_volunteer_mode.htm> to learn > > what he's planning to do next, or check this lovely portrait > > <https://www.wired.com/2013/12/erik-zachte-wikistats/> Wired published a > > while back about "the Stats Master Making Sense of Wikipedia's Massive Data > > Trove". > > > > Dario > > > > > > -- > > *Dario Taraborelli *Director, Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation > > research.wikimedia.org • nitens.org • @readermeter > > <http://twitter.com/readermeter> > > > _______________________________________________ > > Analytics mailing list > > Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > > -- > ---- quelltextlich e.U. ---- \\ ---- Christian Aistleitner ---- > Companies' registry: 360296y in Linz > Christian Aistleitner > Kefermarkterstrasze 6a/3 Email: christian(a)quelltextlich.at > 4293 Gutau, Austria Phone: +43 7946 / 20 5 81 > Fax: +43 7946 / 20 5 81 > Homepage: http://quelltextlich.at/ > --------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics

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Strange Edits from Bot (in CS bios)
by Daniel Moyer 07 Feb '19

07 Feb '19

Hi all, Sorry, I didn't know where to raise this issue. I was recently reading about some CS theory topics, and came across this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ming_Li&oldid=882127233 Clearly something weird is going on. Going into the edits, I found that the strange parts about a cat from Groningen are from this bot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:KolbertBot Does anyone know what's up with this? Sorry if this is the wrong venue, but I thought people might be familiar with this bot or its owner. Thanks, Daniel

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language
by Pine W 07 Feb '19

07 Feb '19

Forwarding. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 10:35 PM 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. Given that this is a long email: there is an action item in the 5th bullet point below for the language communities who want to participate in the next iteration of the study. If you are interested to have your language included in the study, we need a response by 2019-02-15. See below for more. * The paper on Why the World Reads Wikipedia is accepted in WSDM '19 [1]. If you are planning to attend the conference, stop by to hear Florian Lemmerich presenting the work. You can read the paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.00474 . If you have time to only read one subsection of the paper, we would recommend section 4.4. Summary of Results. From there, you can start reading the other parts of the paper depending on your interest about introduction, methodology and data, etc. If you prefer to watch a presentation about the paper, you can check out the December 2018 Research showcase [2]. * Remember that our offer to provide presentations and discuss the result with your language community, if your language is part of the 14 languages in the study [3], is still on the table. :) If you want to talk with us about this topic, sign up at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Read… . No pressure from us: only if having a conversation about readers help your language community in what you do. * We have put extensive effort to document the code [4] and data [5] for this research such that each language community can dive in their data as they see fit. * What's next? The previous results made one point clear to us: geography and language matter and depending on from where in the world the reader is accessing a specific Wikipedia language, they may have different needs and motivations [6]. We hypothesize that age, gender, education, native language, as well as geographic region the reader is from can help us understand and characterize the needs and motivations of Wikipedia readers better. As some of you may already be guessing: there are some big questions ahead of us. For example, are there disparities in access to content depending on the readers' age or gender? Does the trajectory of readers differ depending on their demographics? We'd like to start addressing questions along these lines and better understand the needs and motivations of sub-populations within a country or language community. To do the above, we will rerun the study and this time we will include some demographics questions as part of the study. * How can your language community participate in the upcoming study of reader demographics? As always, research on this front is not possible without a very close collaboration between the language communities who will participate in this study and the researchers. If you want your language to be included in this round of the study, please sign up at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Read… on or before 2019-02-15 . Please note that the priority will be given to the 14 languages that participated in the previous round and that we will do our best to include new languages. Also note that we may not be able to run the study in all the languages that sign up: the traffic to the language edition, the diversity that the inclusion of the language can bring to the language pool, our capacity to run the analysis in the language, the availability of the point of contact from the language for translations will all play a role in the final list of languages that we can include in the study. This being said, please don't shy away from listing your language there if you're interested. :) Best, Leila, on behalf of the researchers (Isaac Johnson, Florian Lemmerich, Diego Saez, Markus Strohmaier, Bob West, and myself) [1] http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2019/ [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#December_2018 [3] ar, bn, de, en, es, he, hi, hu, ja, nl, ro, ru, uk, zh [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Be… [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Be… [6] The needs and motivations themselves don't change, but the distribution over possible options can change, as well as the reader characteristics that can describe them. [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Be… On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 5:43 PM Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > 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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Deadline extension: CfP 5th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2019)
by Diliara Valeeva 04 Feb '19

04 Feb '19

================================================ DEADLINE EXTENSION to 10 February, 2019. Already submitted abstracts can be updated using EasyChair. ================================================ IC2S2 2019 – 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE July 17-20, 2019 University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Web:https://2019.ic2s2.org/ Twitter:@IC2S2 <https://twitter.com/IC2S2>/ #IC2S2 Deadline for abstracts: 10 February 2019 This summer the fifth edition of IC2S2 is hosted by the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. IC2S2 brings together researchers in computational science, complexity, and social science, and provides a platform for new work in the field of computational social science. Following a day of tutorials on July 17, contributed abstracts are presented orally in parallel thematic sessions or as posters at the three day conference, which takes place at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands from July 18 to 20. ================================================ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ================================================ Kenneth Benoit (London School of Economics and Political Science) Jana Diesner (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) Deen Freelon (University of North Carolina) Mirta Galesic (Santa Fe Institute) Cesar Hidalgo (MIT Media Lab) Devra Moehler (Facebook Research) Scott Page (University of Michigan) Leto Peel (Université Catholique de Louvain) Emma Spiro (University of Washington) Lukas Vermeer (Booking.com) Claudia Wagner (GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) ================================================ SPECIAL SESSION “5 YEARS OF IC2S2" ================================================ After an opening talk by Duncan Watts (Microsoft Research), several renowned computational social scientists from the field will engage in a panel discussion on the future of the field of computational social science. Among confirmed panelists are: Ulrik Brandes (ETH Zürich) Sandra González-Bailón (University of Pennsylvania) Helen Margetts (University of Oxford, The Alan Turing Institute)Markus Strohmaier (RWTH Aachen University) Duncan Watts (Microsoft Research) =================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS (ABSTRACTS) =================================================== IC2S2 solicits abstracts from researchers in the social sciences with a clear component of computation, simulation or data analysis or data science. This includes for example sociology, psychology, communication science, anthropology, media studies, political science, public health, and economics. In addition, contributions from computer science, data science, and computational science with real-world applications in the social sciences or related fields, are welcome. We emphatically welcome abstracts that try to integrate both components. This is not limited to empirical studies; more general theoretical contributions are also welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Network analysis of social systems * Large-scale social experiments * Agent-based or other simulations of social phenomena * Text analysis and natural language processing (NLP) of social phenomena * Cultural patterns and dynamics * Computational science studies (sociology of science) * Social news curation and collaborative filtering * Social media studies * Theoretical discussions in computational social science * Causal inference and computational methods for social science * Ethics in computational social sciences * Reproducibility in computational social science * Large scale infrastructure in computational social science * Novel digital data sources * Computational analyses for addressing societal challenges * Methods and analyses of observational social data * Computational social science research in industry Contributions to the conference should be submitted via EasyChair at:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ic2s2-2019 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ic2s2-2019> Please follow the extended abstract template guidelines for Word (ic2s2-word-template.docx <https://2019.ic2s2.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ic2s2-word-template.docx>) and LaTeX (ic2s2-latex-template.zip <https://2019.ic2s2.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ic2s2-latex-template.zip>) for formatting instructions. Note that abstracts should be submitted as a PDFfile no larger than 20MB. Submissions that exceed the 2-page limit (including figures and references) will be automatically rejected. The extended abstract should include a title and a list of 5 keywords, but no authors’ names or affiliations. The abstract should outline the main contribution, data and methods used, results, and the impact of the work. Authors are encouraged to include one figure in their submission (the figure counts towards the page limit). Please do not include authors’ names and affiliations in the submitted document, as peer review will be double blind. Each extended abstract will be reviewed by multiple members of the Program Committee, composed of experts in computational social science. When submitting on EasyChair you will be asked to provide information about the authors and their affiliations and to include a one-sentence summaryof the extended abstract (20-50 words). The summary will be used for assigning reviewers. You can indicate a preference for an oral presentation or a poster presentation, but your preference may not be honored in the final decision. Submissions will be non-archival, and the presented work can be already published, in preparation for publication elsewhere, or ongoing research. Submission implies willingness to present a talk or poster at the conference. The deadline for abstract submission is February 10, 2019. ==================================================== IMPORTANT DATES ==================================================== * February 10, 2019 – Regular abstract submission deadline * March 6, 2019 – Acceptance notification * April 30, 2019 – Early bird registration deadline * June 30, 2019 – Registration deadline * July 17-20, 2019 – Conference ===================================================== SPONSORSHIP ===================================================== Do you want to affiliate your organisation to IC2S2? Bespoke sponsorship packages are available on request. Contact the local chairs Eelke Heemskerk and Frank Takes at ic2s2(a)uva.nl IC2S2 2019 is hosted byCORPNET <https://corpnet.uva.nl/>, University of Amsterdam and so far it is sponsored by Microsoft Research, Facebook, Statistics Netherlands, ODISSEI, University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, Municipality of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies and SAGE Publishing. Please watch the video “IC2S2 comes to Amsterdam <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUWvAysyqPk&t=2s>”. Web:https://2019.ic2s2.org/ Twitter:@IC2S2 <https://twitter.com/IC2S2>/ #IC2S2

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First Introduction [Kaushik Reddy]
by K. Kaushik Reddy 02 Feb '19

02 Feb '19

Hi developers, This is K. Kaushik Reddy from India. I'm keen into Data science & good with python. I am looking to participate in GSoC'19 for your organisation. I also have gone through the ideas page for GSoC'19 , but looking for few data science projects with python as the code base this year. In future, I'm planning to take Research & Development as my career. I always wanted to know how you people plan and execute a project in action. Secondly, Could you please guide me with relevant bugs that need to be fixed, so as to get involved in GSoC'19 along with you guys. Hoping to learning more and have fun with you people. Best, K. Kaushik Reddy.

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