Hi all,
this email to announce the publication as open data of the dataset of
the answers collected in June - July on 8 languages of wikipedia.
Feel free to use it and to ask (enquetes(a)marsouin.org) if some things
are not clear enough to use it (or simply if you have ideas to share!)
https://hal.science/hal-04279803
The research is presented here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Surveying_readers_and_contributors…
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The dataset focuses on Wikipedia users and contains information about
demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the respondents and
their activity on Wikipedia. The data was collected using a
questionnaire available online between June and July 2023. The link to
the questionnaire was distributed via a banner published in 8 languages
on the Wikipedia page. Filling out the questionnaire was voluntary and
not incentivised in any way.
The survey includes 200 questions about: what people were doing on
Wikipedia before clicking the link to the questionnaire; how they use
Wikipedia as readers (“professional” and “personal” uses); their opinion
on the quality, the thematic coverage, the importance of the
encyclopaedia; the making of Wikipedia (how they think it is made, if
they have ever contributed and how); their social, sport, artistic and
cultural activities, both online and offline; their socio-economic
characteristics including political beliefs, and trust propensities.
More than 200 000 people opened the questionnaire, 100 332 started to
answer, and constitute our dataset, and 10 576 finished it. Among other
themes identified by future researchers, the dataset can be useful for
advancing the research regarding the features of readers vs contributors
of online commons, the relationship between trust, information, sources,
and the use made of this information.
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Nicolas Jullien
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Professeur / Professor.
IMT Atlantique, Brest lab. M@rsouin/LEGO
Direction scientifique de Marsouin.org
Animateur de la communauté scientifique IMT Transformation durable des
organisations
Dear Wikipedia community,
we are happy to announce that Markus Krötzsch will be joining us in Paderborn for the keynote talk at SMWCon 2023!
In this talk, Markus will provide a personal perspective on the origins and principles of semantic wikis, and some of the key challenges that lie ahead in managing knowledge in the age of A!
Don't miss it - you can still attend in person, or follow the conference via YouTube or Zoom.
https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2023
I you have not already participated in our __community survey__, please do so until this Wednesday. It is important for us to learn more about your SMW usage. Results will be presented next Tuesday.
We thank this year's conference sponsors:
ArchiXL: http://www.archixl.nl/
Specialists in enterprise architecture, knowledge management, and semantics
Hallo Welt!: https://bluespice.com/
The company behind BlueSpice, the open-source enterprise wiki software
MyWikis Europe: https://mywikis.eu/
GDPR compliant (Semantic) MediaWiki hosting from the heart of Europe.
Wikibase Solutions: https://wikibase-solutions.com/
Specialist in business solutions with MediaWiki
As well as the conference organizers
MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group: https://mwstake.org/
Advocating the needs of MediaWiki users outside the Wikimedia Foundation
KM-A Knowledge Management Associates: https://km-a.net/
KM-A educates and advises Knowledge Managers and connects the KM Community in Austria and the world.
Paderborn University: https://www.uni-paderborn.de/en/
While always keeping society's needs in mind, scientists at Paderborn University are working on the technologies of the future.
Juggel: https://www.juggel.com/
AI supported Knowledge Management based on MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki
Best regards,
Bernhard, Ad and Tobias
Dear all
I'd really appreciate some advice on an application for Wikipedia to be
considered for a very prestigious international heritage recognition.
Myself and a few others previously applied and got to the final stages of
the process, however we were rejected on the following points. If anyone
has any suggestions or papers which might help answer these issues I'd
really appreciate it. I have a number of arguments prepared but I would
really appreciate any thoughts, feel free to include them in this email
list, or just email me them separately. The first point is the one I feel
needs the most rebuttal.
1. Although it is acknowledged Wikipedia is a phenomenal idea, it was
not clear how it could be defined as ‘heritage’ at this stage of its
evolution.
2. Wikipedia's dynamic nature and the unpredictability of the nature of
the content generated.
3. There was hesitation as to the perception it might create among the
public, given their differing perspectives of Wikipedia as an information
website.
4. Worry that Wikipedia includes things that aren’t true or accurate
5. Worry that if they admit Wikipedia, will they have to admit every
other such platform (or other interesting information ideas)
6. Worry that the information held in Wikipedia is also held elsewhere
Thanks very much indeed
John