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stream.wikimedia.org
by Bruno Goncalves 08 Jul '16

08 Jul '16

Hi, I've been playing with the RC stream and I was wondering if there is any place where I can download past data? I've tried looking in the dump directory (https://dumps.wikimedia.org/) and google but without much luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best, Bruno ******************************************* Bruno Miguel Tavares Gonçalves, PhD Homepage: www.bgoncalves.com Email: bgoncalves(a)gmail.com *******************************************

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question about Pageviews dumps
by Marc Miquel 04 Jul '16

04 Jul '16

Hello, I have a question for you regarding pageviews datadumps. I am considering to study reader engagement for different article topics in different languages. Because of this, I would like to know if there is any plan to make available pageviews dumps detailing activity log at session level per user - in a similar way to editor sessions. Since this would be for a research project I might ask funding for it, I would like to know if I could count on that, what is the nature of the available data, and what would be the procedure to obtain this data and if there would be any implication because of privacy concerns. Thank you very much! Best, Marc Miquel ᐧ

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A New Journal: Wiki Studies
by Robert E. Cummings 03 Jul '16

03 Jul '16

Hi All: Given the conversation about fees for publishing articles about Wikipedia in OA journals, I wanted to call your attention to a new journal we are starting, Wiki Studies http://wikistudies.org/ Wiki Studies is an interdisciplinary, open access, peer-reviewed journal focusing on the intersection of Wikipedia and higher education. We are interested in most all of the same topics hosted on the research listserv and the newsletter, including articles about pedagogical practices, epistemology, bias, mission, and reliability. We will not charge for submission or publication, and will offer open access to readers. We will host on Open Journal Systems. We are just getting started. We are recruiting editors, and plan to have a presence at the upcoming Wiki Conference North America in San Diego 7-10 October 2016. We hope to publish our first volume in March of 2017, consisting of submissions received by 31 December 2016. Comments, queries, and suggestions all welcome at cummings(a)olemiss.edu<mailto:cummings@olemiss.edu> Yours, Bob Cummings

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Indexing and Wiki Studies Journal
by Robert E. Cummings 01 Jul '16

01 Jul '16

Hi All: Thanks for the well wishes and enthusiasm for our new journal, Wiki Studies. To Andrew Krizhanovsky's question on indexing with SCOPUS or WebofScience: we know that indexing will be very important for our authors, and will seek to index wherever feasible. We will start with Google Scholar and investigate others, including WebOfScience and Social Sciences Index. In general I expect that as with most new journals, our impact factor will start low and climb as we become more established. Yours, Bob Cummings cummings(a)olemiss.edu http://wikistudies.org/

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Proposal to reopen the "Unacceptable behavior" section
by Matthew Flaschen 29 Jun '16

29 Jun '16

Yaron Koren has proposed to reopen the "Unacceptable behavior" section (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Suggested_change_…). His perspective and mine are given on the talk page. In brief: * He disagrees with how "marginalized and otherwise underrepresented groups" and "encouraged" are handled in the original text. * I support the current text and process, and have explained why on the talk page. Thanks, Matt Flaschen

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] WMF Open Access Policy and Independent Researchers
by James Salsman 29 Jun '16

29 Jun '16

Max, this advise is very good: > On 6/29/2016 11:01, Stuart A. Yeates wrote: > > There are many open access journals which do not charge fees or any > description. See http://www.opendoar.org/ or talk to a friendly > librarian to find a journal that meets your needs. Please see also Table 5 on p. 1320 (PDF p. 6) in http://octavia.zoology.washington.edu/publications/WestEtAl14.pdf That suggests the Journal of Machine Learning Research may be a good high-impact, zero-fee choice, if appropriate. There are alternatives by the same authors at http://www.eigenfactor.org/openaccess/oa.php?catid=50&pt=0 in particular, College and Research Libraries and the Journal of the Medical Library Association, if appropriate. http://www.eigenfactor.org/openaccess/oa.php?catid=29&pt=0 has another bunch, such as the Journal of Educational Research. http://www.eigenfactor.org/openaccess/oa.php?catid=129&pt=0 suggests Computational Linguistics.

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] question about Pageviews dumps
by Marc Miquel 29 Jun '16

29 Jun '16

Hello! I was thinking about user sessions, yes, so this would mean to aggregate pageviews visited by a user during a short amount of time (I should check the cutoff, but it could be around an hour or less). I am particularly interested in understanding the order in which pages are seen (start, end), duration, etc. I wouldn't need data from a long period neither, but I think data from multiple languages would be helpful. I imagined reader data could be sensitive to privacy, but would an NDA with my university and some sort of data encoding help with this? As I said, it is for a scientific purpose. Thanks, Marc El dt., 28 juny 2016 a les 21:09, Nuria Ruiz (<nuria(a)wikimedia.org>) va escriure: > > Hello! > > >I am considering to study reader engagement for different article topics > in different languages. Because of this, I would like to know if there is > >any plan to make available pageviews dumps detailing activity log at > session level per user - in a similar way to editor sessions. > > Are you thinking of "all-pageviews-visited-by-a-certain-user"? If so, no > we do not have any projects to provide that data as due to privacy concerns > we neither have nor keep that information. > > Thanks, > > Nuria > > > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 6:55 PM, Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> + Analytics >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 6:36 AM, Marc Miquel <marcmiquel(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have a question for you regarding pageviews datadumps. >>> >>> I am considering to study reader engagement for different article topics >>> in different languages. Because of this, I would like to know if there is >>> any plan to make available pageviews dumps detailing activity log at >>> session level per user - in a similar way to editor sessions. >>> >>> Since this would be for a research project I might ask funding for it, I >>> would like to know if I could count on that, what is the nature of the >>> available data, and what would be the procedure to obtain this data and if >>> there would be any implication because of privacy concerns. >>> >>> Thank you very much! >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Marc Miquel >>> ᐧ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>> Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] question about Pageviews dumps
by Marc Miquel 29 Jun '16

29 Jun '16

Hi Joseph. Perhaps these approximations could already provide me valuable information. If it is possible to distinguish between mobile and pc visits, then I could filter the mobile and keep the more reliable pc-based data. This is all I wanted to know by now to prepare my project. In case I need to progress with it, I will contact you. Thank you very much for the answer. Cheers, Marc El dc., 29 juny 2016 a les 10:24, Joseph Allemandou (< jallemandou(a)wikimedia.org>) va escriure: > Hi Marc, > > The information you're after is not available in the data we collect, for > at least two reasons > > - We don't collect data allowing to detect user sessions (no id-cookie > or identifier) > - We don't collect time spent on page > > Approximations could be made using finger-printing techniques as a proxy > for sessions (with an important error on mobile due to ip-pooling), and > successive events as boundaries for time spent on page. > These approximations would in any case need an NDA. > > Cheers > Joseph > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Marc Miquel <marcmiquel(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks for the answer, Oliver. But I am not sure it answers my >> questions. I'd like to study aspects like how much time is spent in >> certain pages, as a proxy of how content is approached/read/understood. I'd >> be happy with time of entering the page, time of leaving. This is not >> entirely centered on 'user activity', but I said that because I imagined >> data would be stored in a similar way to editor sessions, or in a database >> and I would need to do the time calculations. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Marc >> >> >> El dc., 29 juny, 2016 03:11, Oliver Keyes <ironholds(a)gmail.com> va >> escriure: >> >>> If historic data is okay, there's already a dataset released ( >>> https://figshare.com/articles/Activity_Sessions_datasets/1291033) that >>> was designed specifically to answer questions around how to best calculate >>> session length with regards to Wikipedia (http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.2878 >>> ) >>> >>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Marc Miquel <marcmiquel(a)gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello! >>>> >>>> I was thinking about user sessions, yes, so this would mean to >>>> aggregate pageviews visited by a user during a short amount of time (I >>>> should check the cutoff, but it could be around an hour or less). >>>> >>>> I am particularly interested in understanding the order in which pages >>>> are seen (start, end), duration, etc. >>>> I wouldn't need data from a long period neither, but I think data from >>>> multiple languages would be helpful. >>>> >>>> I imagined reader data could be sensitive to privacy, but would an NDA >>>> with my university and some sort of data encoding help with this? As I >>>> said, it is for a scientific purpose. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Marc >>>> >>>> El dt., 28 juny 2016 a les 21:09, Nuria Ruiz (<nuria(a)wikimedia.org>) >>>> va escriure: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hello! >>>>> >>>>> >I am considering to study reader engagement for different article >>>>> topics in different languages. Because of this, I would like to know if >>>>> there is >any plan to make available pageviews dumps detailing activity log >>>>> at session level per user - in a similar way to editor sessions. >>>>> >>>>> Are you thinking of "all-pageviews-visited-by-a-certain-user"? If so, >>>>> no we do not have any projects to provide that data as due to privacy >>>>> concerns we neither have nor keep that information. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> >>>>> Nuria >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 6:55 PM, Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> + Analytics >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 6:36 AM, Marc Miquel <marcmiquel(a)gmail.com> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hello, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I have a question for you regarding pageviews datadumps. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I am considering to study reader engagement for different article >>>>>>> topics in different languages. Because of this, I would like to know if >>>>>>> there is any plan to make available pageviews dumps detailing activity log >>>>>>> at session level per user - in a similar way to editor sessions. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Since this would be for a research project I might ask funding for >>>>>>> it, I would like to know if I could count on that, what is the nature of >>>>>>> the available data, and what would be the procedure to obtain this data and >>>>>>> if there would be any implication because of privacy concerns. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thank you very much! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Best, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Marc Miquel >>>>>>> ᐧ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>>>>>> Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Analytics mailing list >>>>>> Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Analytics mailing list >>>>> Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> >> > > > -- > *Joseph Allemandou* > Data Engineer @ Wikimedia Foundation > IRC: joal > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >

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Upcoming research newsletter (June 2016): new papers open for review
by Mohammed Sadat 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

Hi everybody, We’re preparing for the June 2016 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201606 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication date is Saturday July 2 UTC although actual publication might happen several days later. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome. Highlights from this month: • This issue won’t be published before Saturday (May 28), possibly a bit later • Case study in political user behavior on Wikipedia • Combining syntactic patterns and Wikipedia's hierarchy of hyperlinks to extract meronym relations • Crowdsourcing not all sourced by the crowd: An observation on the behavior of Wikipedia participants • Customer relationship management practices in the online community – Wikipedia • Determining the influence of reddit posts on wikipedia pageviews • Digital History Meets Wikipedia: Analyzing Historical Persons in Wikipedia • Enriching Wikidata with Frame Semantics • Manipulating Google’s Knowledge Graph Box to Counter Biased Information Processing During an Online Search on Vaccination: Application of a Technological Debiasing Strategy • Quality Assessment of Wikipedia Articles Without Feature Engineering • The double power law in human collaboration behavior: The case of Wikipedia • Visualizations of relationships among knowledge? Try WikiSeeker! • Wikipedia traffic data and electoral prediction: towards theoretically informed models If you have any question about the format or process feel free to get in touch off-list. Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter

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Brazilian Wikipedia Science Conference - CCBWIKI
by Rodrigo Padula 23 Jun '16

23 Jun '16

Hello everyone! The Wikimedia Brazilian Group of Education and Research[1] will host on October 13th and 14th in Rio de Janeiro the "1st Brazilian Wikipedia Science Conference" This event aims to bring together students, teachers and researchers with projects and publications about Wikipedia, other Wikimedia projects and their dynamics. We are almost done and soon we will announce our official website and call for papers. Articles and poster will be accepted. The Wikimedia Foundation has validated our logo [2] and the use of the Wikipedia brand in the event name. We are using as inspiration the events organized by Wikimedia UK[3] and OpenSym[4]. We are trying to bring to Brazil some important keynotes from our movement. If someone from this list is interested in coming to visit us, let's keep in touch! That event is under organization in a very organic and experimental way, with no funding from WMF to see the impact and interest from the local academic community. Based on the results and impacts we will try to do something bigger in 2017. All the content produced during the event will be published in CC licenses (photos, videos, interviews, publications). Soon we will have more news! You can check our planning page here[5] [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BR-ER [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Science_Conference [3] https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikipedia_Science_Conference [4] http://www.opensym.org/os2016/ [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BR-ER/Events/Congresso_Científico_Brasileir… Best regards Rodrigo Padula Coordenador de Projetos Grupo Wikimedia Brasileiro de Educação e Pesquisa http://www.wikimedia.org.br 21 99326-0558

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