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crowdsource question
by James Salsman 30 Nov '16

30 Nov '16

Who, if anyone, is examining crowdsource survey questions such as, "Look at the text added or removed in this edit to [Company]'s Wikipedia article. Was the editor saying [ ] good things, [ ] bad things, or [ ] was neutral about [Company]'s financial prospects?"? Best regards, Jim

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Announcement of Keynotes & 2nd Call for Papers: 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society #SMSociety (July 28-30, 2017, Toronto, Canada)
by Anatoliy 30 Nov '16

30 Nov '16

Dear Colleagues, We are very pleased to announce two distinguished Keynotes for the 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society (July 28-30, 2017, Toronto, Canada): * Lee Rainie - Director, Pew Research Center's Internet <http://www.pewinternet.org/> & American Life Project, USA * Ronald Deibert - Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Citizen Lab <http://www.citizenlab.org/> at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Canada. SUBMIT TODAY We would also like to invite scholarly and original submissions that broadly relate to the 2017 conference theme on "Social Media for Social Good or Evil." We welcome both quantitative and qualitative work which crosses interdisciplinary boundaries and expands our understanding of the current and future trends in social media research. See the call for proposals at https://socialmediaandsociety.org/2016/cfp-2017-international-conference-soc ial-media-society/ DEADLINES * Workshops/ Technical Tutorials - Due December 5, 2016 * Full and Work-in-progress (WIP) Papers - Due January 16, 2017 * Posters - Due March 6, 2017 PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES Full and WIP (short) papers presented will be published in the conference proceedings by ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS) <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2930971&CFID=847001369&CFTOKEN=15617273&p reflayout=flat#prox> and will be available in the ACM Digital Library. All conference presenters will be invited to submit their extended conference papers to a special issue of the Social Media + Society <http://sms.sagepub.com/> journal ( <http://sms.sagepub.com/> http://sms.sagepub.com/) published by SAGE. 2017 #SMSociety Organizing Committee: * Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University, Canada - Conference Chair * Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada - Conference Chair * Philip Mai, Ryerson University, Canada - Conference Chair * Hazel Kwon, Arizona State University, USA - Poster Chair * Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute, UK - WIP Chair * Jeff Hemsley, Syracuse University, USA - WIP Chair Advisory Board: * William H. Dutton, Michigan State University, USA * Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA * Barry Wellman, INSNA Founder, The Netlab Network, Canada Programme Committee: * Visit: http://socialmediaandsociety.org/about/ If you have any questions, please contact us via email at ask(a)socialmediaandsociety.org <mailto:ask@socialmediaandsociety.org> or on Twitter at @SocMediaConf <https://twitter.com/SocMediaConf>

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Weigh in on whether to finalize "Conflict of interest" sections of Code of Conduct
by Matthew Flaschen 23 Nov '16

23 Nov '16

Please comment on whether to approve the "Conflict of interest" section of the draft Code of conduct for technical spaces. This section did not reach not reach consensus earlier, but changes were made seeking to address the previous concerns. You can find the section at https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Code_of_Conduct/Draft&oldid=229… You can comment at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Finalize_new_vers… . A position and brief comment is fine. You can also send private feedback to conduct-discussion(a)wikimedia.org . I really appreciate your participation. Thanks again, Matt Flaschen

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] Question about data mining of the "Articles for Deletion" queues
by Jonathan Morgan 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

+research-l because this is more of a research than an analytics question. Hi Jane, What do you mean by acronyms in deletion queues here? Are you talking about policy links used to justify !votes in deletion discussions, or acronyms used in deletion comments of AfD'd articles? Or something else entirely. If #1, this paper <http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.835.9466&rep=rep1&…> examines the use of a single policy (IAR) in AfD's over time. If #2, I did a similar (quick and dirty) analysis with AfC recently, here: https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/13341 Others may be aware of additional resources or analyses. Best, Jonathan On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 7:10 AM, Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > Has anyone tried to find the frequency of acronyms used in AfD queues? Any > information about the deletion queue in language is welcome, thanks. > > This came up during a discussion about "enyclopedia worthiness" and how to > explain this concept to newbies. > Jane > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > -- Jonathan T. Morgan Senior Design Researcher Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)>

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supporting Wikipedia citations as formal scholarly reputation in tenure committees
by James Salsman 18 Nov '16

18 Nov '16

Can anyone familiar with European Commission procedure please explain how to support the Wikipedia-associated proposals in [1] based on the statistics in [2] please? Very recent publications such as [3] in Nature along with what appears to be a relatively sudden groundswell of frankness and support e.g. [4] suggests to me that the time is right to get out in front of these proposals. [1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Nicholas5/publication/275349828_… [2] http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~xshuai/papers/jcdl240-shuai.pdf [3] http://www.nature.com/news/fewer-numbers-better-science-1.20858 [4] http://blog.scielo.org/en/2016/10/14/is-it-possible-to-normalize-citation-m…

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New hangout link for Research Showcase
by Dario Taraborelli 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

We're having some major technical issues with Hangout on Air, if you're joining us for the showcase please use this link, we'll be starting shortly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIaMuWA84bY Dario

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Wikimedia datasets collection on the Internet Archive has surpassed 1 million items
by Hydriz Scholz 14 Nov '16

14 Nov '16

Dear all, The Wikimedia Foundation datasets collection on the Internet Archive [1] has now surpassed 1 million items (and about 50,000 full database dumps)! This marks a major milestone in our archiving efforts of Wikimedia's vast amount of data and ensures that the vital content submitted by volunteers across the moment is preserved. All these would not have been possible without the help of many people, including Nemo, Ariel and Emijrp (thanks!). We started archiving towards the end of 2011 and reached a milestone of half a million items back in June 2015. [2] We have since moved on from archiving just the main database dumps to saving research-worthy data such as the pageviews data and even attempting to keep a copy of Wikimedia Commons. Today, we are working on making the items on the Internet Archive more accessible for researchers by working on an interface for searching old dumps. Despite this feat, we are in constant need of more help. If you are a researcher, a programmer or someone with a computer, we need your help in many tasks! Have a look at WikiTeam's project [3] or Emijrp's Wikipedia Archive page [4] for more information. If you regularly work on the Wikimedia database dumps, please provide your input in the Dumps-Rewrite project [5] and the API interface [6]. As before, here's to the next million! [1]: https://archive.org/details/wikimediadownloads [2]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/wikiteam-discuss/Vj3oonpYphg/h9HE6r3v… [3]: https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/Wikipedia_Archive [5]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/dumps-rewrite/ [6]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147177 -- Hydriz Scholz

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The October 2016 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
by masssly＠ymail.com 12 Nov '16

12 Nov '16

The October 2016 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/11/07/research-newsletter-october-2016/ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2016/October In this issue: 1 "Gender gap on Wikipedia: visible in all categories?" 2 Quality and importance in different language editions 3 Why women edit less: a controlled experiment 4 "Wikipedia traffic data and electoral prediction: towards theoretically informed models" 5 Briefly 5.1 Conferences and events *** 13 publications were covered or listed in this issue *** Thanks to Giuseppe Profiti, Morten Warncke-Wang, Jonathan Morgan and Zareen Farooqui for contributing. Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli --- Wikimedia Research Newsletter https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/ * Follow us on Twitter: @WikiResearch * Receive this newsletter by mail: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/research-newsletter * Subscribe to the RSS feed: http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/research-2/wikimedia-research-newsletter/feed/

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Upcoming Research Showcase, November 16, 2016
by Leila Zia 09 Nov '16

09 Nov '16

[Apologies for cross-posting] Hi everyone, Almost a year ago, we [1] embarked on a research project to understand who Wikipedia readers are. More specifically, we set a goal for finding a taxonomy of Wikipedia readers. In the upcoming Research Showcase, I will present the findings of this research. *Logistics* The Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 11:35 (PST) 19:35 (UTC). YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O24F1xkbNwI As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC freedone at #wikimedia-research. And, you can watch our past research showcases at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase. *Title* Why We Read Wikipedia *Abstract* Every day, millions of readers come to Wikipedia to satisfy a broad range of information needs, however, little is known about what these needs are. In this presentation, I share the result of a research that sets to help us understand Wikipedia readers better. Based on an initial user study on English, Persian, and Spanish Wikipedia, we build a taxonomy of Wikipedia use-cases along several dimensions, capturing users’ motivations to visit Wikipedia, the depth of knowledge they are seeking, and their knowledge of the topic of interest prior to visiting Wikipedia. Then, we quantify the prevalence of these use-cases via a large-scale user survey conducted on English Wikipedia. Our analyses highlight the variety of factors driving users to Wikipedia, such as current events, media coverage of a topic, personal curiosity, work or school assignments, or boredom. Finally, we match survey responses to the respondents’ digital traces in Wikipedia’s server logs, enabling the discovery of behavioral patterns associated with specific use-cases. Our findings advance our understanding of reader motivations and behavior on Wikipedia and have potential implications for developers aiming to improve Wikipedia’s user experience, editors striving to cater to (a subset of) their readers’ needs, third-party services (such as search engines) providing access to Wikipedia content, and researchers aiming to build tools such as article recommendation engines. Looking forward to seeing you there, and if you can't make it, please feel free to watch the video later and get in touch with us with questions/comments. :) Best, Leila -- Leila Zia Senior Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation [1] WMF Research and researchers from three academic institutions: EPFL, GESIS, and Stanford University, in collaboration with WMF Reading.

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] "Can Wikipedia save the internet?": Wikipedia and political neutrality
by James Salsman 05 Nov '16

05 Nov '16

Fred and Craig, Do you think a comparison of the effects of bias in individual candidates' articles to the effects systemic bias towards trickle-down austerity economics and the social implications thereof in light of the WP:MEDRS-grade source at http://talknicer.com/ehip.pdf might produce a helpful indication of where counter-advocacy efforts would best be focused? I'm un-crossposting this reply to just wiki-research-l and the Education list because I've been told to not crosspost to more than two lists. On Wed, 2 Nov 2016 12:59:09 -0400 Craig Newmark <craig.newmark at gmail.com> wrote: > >Fred, thanks! > > Worth reviewing, after people have recovered from the election. How > about...reminding me two weeks from today. I might've recovered by >then, > seriously... > > Thanks! > > Craig Newmark > > founder, craigslist > > On Nov 2, 2016 12:44 PM, "FRED BAUDER" <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> >wrote: > >> Craig, >> >> I don't expect you to do anything about it, but Hillary Clinton >> presidential campaign, 2016 has been so much an object of political >>editing >> by Clinton supporters that it looks more like an ad for Hillary than >>a >> Wikipedia article. >> >> Fred Bauder >> >> On Wed, 2 Nov 2016 11:43:32 -0400 >> Craig Newmark <craig.newmark at craigconnects.org> wrote: >> >>> Wikipedia is where facts go to live. >>> >>> >>> It helps that folks on US Capitol Hill are receptive to quiet >>>suggestions >>> that Wikipedia avoid becoming a partisan battleground. >>> >>> Craig Newmark >>> >>> founder, craigslist >>> >>> On Nov 1, 2016 7:35 PM, "Olatunde Isaac" <reachout2isaac at gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hoi, >>>> >>>> Pine, thanks for sharing this article. I found the entire article >>>>very >>>> interesting. I am glad that Wikipedia is not seen as a vehicle for >>>> political campaign. Sometimes, people create account on Wikipedia >>>>with >>>> the >>>> aim to use the encyclopedia for political campaign and a good number >>>>of >>>> them end up getting blocked either for POV pushing or other >>>>disruptive >>>> editing/behavior. >>>> >>>> BTW....I have a few question. Is it a good idea to protect a page >>>>from >>>> creation if there are indications that the overall intention of the >>>> creator >>>> is to use Wikipedia as a platform for political campaign? If yes, >>>>how is >>>> such protection necessary if the page is neutrally written? >>>> >>>> There was an incident that happened sometimes last year when an >>>>article >>>> on >>>> "Akinwunmi Ambode" was protected from creation and unprotected >>>>after his >>>> election. >>>> >>>> Is this really a good idea? >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> >>>> Isaac >>>> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile. >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Pine W <wiki.pine at gmail.com> >>>> Sender: "Wikimedia-l" <wikimedia-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org>Date: >>>> Wed, >>>> 26 Oct 2016 20:31:59 >>>> To: Wikimedia Mailing List<Wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>; >>>>Wikimedia >>>> Education<education at lists.wikimedia.org>; Wiki >>>> Research-l<wiki-research-l@ >>>> lists.wikimedia.org> >>>> Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org> >>>> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] "Can Wikipedia save the internet?": Wikipedia >>>>and >>>> political neutrality >>>> >>>> Hello colleagues, >>>> >>>> Some of you might be interested in this news article: >>>> http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ >>>> can-wikipedia-save-the-internet-a7380786.html >>>> >>>> When we know that we have countless shortcomings in Wikimedia, I >>>>found it >>>> refreshing to hear that some aspects of our content and community >>>>are >>>> performing well and, on the whole, are serving the public interest. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Pine

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