Hi,
Is there any research about the effect of vandalism in wiki content pages
on readers, experienced editors, and new and potential editors?
And of abuse in discussion pages and edit summaries on experienced editors
and new and potential editors?
Intuitively and anecdotally one could think of the following:
1. Vandalism in content pages (articles) wastes editors' and patrollers'
time. This (probably) doesn't require proof (or does it?). But some people
say it also causes some experienced editors to burn out and leave. Is there
any data about it, beyond intuition?
2. Does vandalism *measurably* affect the perception of the wikis'
reliability? (This may be wildly different in different languages and
wikis.)
3. Abusive language on discussion pages and edit summaries affects editors,
and may cause them to reduce their editing, to stop editing about certain
topics, or to leave the wiki entirely. Is this effect measurable? How does
it differ for various groups by gender, age, religion, country,
professional and educational background, seniority at the wiki, etc.?
Thanks! :)
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I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Hi all,
Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours on 2021-01-04 at 17:00-18:00 PM UTC (9am PT/6pm CET)!
To participate, join the video-call via this Wikimedia-meet link [2]. There
is no set agenda - feel free to add your item to the list of topics in the
etherpad [3] (You can do this after you join the meeting, too.), otherwise
you are welcome to also just hang out. More detailed information (e.g.
about how to attend) can be found here [4].
Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves more available to
answer some of the research related questions that you as Wikimedia
volunteer editors, organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in
your projects and initiatives. Some example cases we hope to be able to
support you in:
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For example, how can I compute the ratio of anonymous to registered editors
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- You run into repetitive or very manual work as part of your Wikimedia
contributions and you wish to find out if there are ways to use machines to
improve your workflows. These types of conversations can sometimes be
harder to find an answer for during an office hour, however, discussing
them can help us understand your challenges better and we may find ways to
work with each other to support you in addressing it in the future.
- You want to learn what the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation
does and how we can potentially support you. Specifically for affiliates:
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- You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [5].
Hope to see many of you,
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Hello, everyone!
First, let me introduce myself. My name is Sam, and I am a data analysis
intern at a company called Megaputer Intelligence. My comapny makes a
software which which has a lot of promise in improving various Wikimedia
projects, so I am hoping that my work here will lead to a collaboration
between Megaputer and the Wikimedia foundation.
Right now I am trying to produce a better anti-vandalism bot for English
Wikipedia which involves working with a dataset of edits classified as
vandalism or not vandalism. The problem that I am having is that some of
the pages I need to access have been deleted or suppressed. Could
someone tell me where is the right place to apply for researcher rights
so that I can access these?
Thanks,
Sam at Megaputer
Apologies for cross-posting
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Dear all,
A Swedish professor is writing a piece on Wikipedia for Sweden's largest
daily newspaper, for the upcoming 20 years anniversary. She asked me for
"interesting and widespread studies" on Wikipedia – not necessarily within
any certain focus.
If you would share 2 or 3 studies, that have gained some attention and that
you find interesting, which would these be?
Would be very happy for any help!
Best
*Eric Luth*
Projektledare engagemang och påverkan | Project Manager, Involvement and
Advocacy
Wikimedia Sverige
eric.luth(a)wikimedia.se
+46 (0) 765 55 50 95
Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige.
Läs mer på blimedlem.wikimedia.se
Thanks for your reply, Jana. Very interesting results!
Will be happy to share the final article when it is ready.
Best
*Eric Luth*
Projektledare engagemang och påverkan | Project Manager, Involvement and
Advocacy
Wikimedia Sverige
eric.luth(a)wikimedia.se
+46 (0) 765 55 50 95
Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige.
Läs mer på blimedlem.wikimedia.se
Den fre 18 dec. 2020 kl 19:33 skrev Gallus, Jana <
jana.gallus(a)anderson.ucla.edu>:
> Re. non-English Wikipedia and editor retention:
> I ran a large-scale field experiment in and *with* the community of Swiss
> editors. We show that purely symbolic awards that provide social
> recognition increase newcomer retention by 20%, and the effect persists for
> over a year after initial award receipt:
>
> Gallus, J. (2017). "Fostering public good contributions with symbolic
> awards: A large-scale natural field experiment at Wikipedia
> <https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.2016.2540>."
> Management Science 63(12): 3999-4015.
>
> Would you mind sharing the eventual article with us? I greatly enjoyed
> following this thread and look forward to the article.
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 18th, 2020 at 5:44 AM, Eric Luth <eric.luth(a)wikimedia.se>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> A Swedish professor is writing a piece on Wikipedia for Sweden's largest
>> daily newspaper, for the upcoming 20 years anniversary. She asked me for
>> "interesting and widespread studies" on Wikipedia – not necessarily within
>> any certain focus.
>>
>> If you would share 2 or 3 studies, that have gained some attention and
>> that
>> you find interesting, which would these be?
>>
>> Would be very happy for any help!
>>
>> Best
>> *Eric Luth*
>> Projektledare engagemang och påverkan | Project Manager, Involvement and
>> Advocacy
>> Wikimedia Sverige
>> eric.luth(a)wikimedia.se
>> +46 (0) 765 55 50 95
>>
>> Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige.
>> Läs mer på blimedlem.wikimedia.se
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