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New editor retention rates Visual Editor vs Wikitext
by john cummings 09 Dec '15

09 Dec '15

Hi all Does anyone know of any information on editor retention rates based on whether the person used Visual Editor or Wikitext? I'm sure there are many ways you could explore this subject, my specific interest is when running editor training would it be better to teach people to use VE or wikitext? Many thanks John

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"Self-management" management philosophy and Wikipedia
by Pine W 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

This article reminds me a lot of how Wikipedia and its sister projects work ideally: http://www.self-managementinstitute.org/misperceptions-of-self-management Of course we have some problems, some of them very thorny problems for which we have yet to find long-term solutions. Perhaps by looking at the experience of other orgs who are operating with similar philosophies, we can derive solutions. Pine

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Research initiatives for future IdeaLab Campaigns?
by Chris Schilling 07 Dec '15

07 Dec '15

Hi researchers, I'm seeking your help in deciding on future IdeaLab campaigns. These campaigns can generate novel proposals that could be eligible for grant funding, and ultimately address needs in the projects to which you contribute: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Future_IdeaLab_Campaigns> Topics focused on research have an important value across Wikimedia projects. Personally, I've seen a lot of demand for research in discussions around Wikimedia projects, and as a volunteer on en.wiki, I've sometimes felt unequipped debating community, policy, and technical issues without relevant empirical data to ground my thinking. You can offer feedback and add your own campaign topics on potential avenues for research through a survey conducted through AllOurIdeas < http://www.allourideas.org/idealab_campaigns> in addition to participating on the IdeaLab talk page. I’m looking forward to seeing your feedback and exploring potential directions we can take IdeaLab campaigns starting next year. Take care, Jethro -- Chris "Jethro" Schilling I JethroBT (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:I_JethroBT_(WMF)> Community Organizer, Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>

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CfP:: 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) - London, UK - July 11-13, 2016
by Anatoliy 05 Dec '15

05 Dec '15

Apologies for cross-postings. ********************************************************* 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) CALL FOR PROPOSALS WHEN: July 11-13, 2016 WHERE: Goldsmiths, University of London, UK SUBMISSION DEADLINES: Dec 23, 2015(extended!): Workshops/Tutorials/Panels Jan 15, 2016: Full & WIP Papers Mar 4, 2016: Poster Abstracts Conference website: http://socialmediaandsociety.org/submit/ Data, data everywhere. With faster computers and cheaper storage, bigger data sets are becoming abundant. Social media is a key source of big data in the form of user and system generated content. What do we do with all of the social data and how do we make sense of it? How does the use of social media platforms and the data that they generate change us, our organizations, and our society? What are the inherent challenges and issues associated with working with social media data? What obligations do we have as social media researchers to protect the privacy of the users? These are just a few questions that will be explored at the 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety). Now, in its 7th year, the conference is an interdisciplinary academic conference focusing exclusively on social media research. The conference brings together top researchers and practitioners from academia and industry who are interested in studying and understanding social media impact and implications on society. This year's conference offers an intensive three-day program comprising of workshops, tutorials, paper presentations, panel discussions, and posters covering wide-ranging topics related to social media research. PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES: Full papers presented at the conference will be published in the Conference Proceedings by ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS). All accepted papers (full and WIP) will also be invited to submit their extended papers to Special Issues of Big Data & Society (BD&S) and American Behavioral Scientist (ABS) published by SAGE Publications. TRAVEL FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: 2016 ISRF Early Career Researcher Essay Competition (http://bit.ly/sms16ISRF ) ORGANIZER: Social Media Lab at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Canada HOSTS & CO-ORGANIZERS: Big Data & Society Journal (BD&S) and the Centre for Creative & Social Technologies (CAST) at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK TOPIC OF INTERESTS: Social Media & Big Data . Data Visualization . Analytics & Data Mining . Scalability Issues . APIs . Data Curation . Virality & Memes . Big and Small Data . Ethics . Privacy, Surveillance, & Security Social Media Impact on Society . Politics . Journalism . Sports . Health . Public Administration . Business (Marketing, PR, HR, Risk Management, etc.) . Sharing Economy / Crowdsourcing . Academia (Alternative Metrics, Learning Analytics, etc.) . Mobile Theories & Methods . Qualitative Approaches . Quantitative Approaches . Opinion Mining & Sentiment Analysis . Social Network Analysis . Theoretical Models Online / Offline Communities . Case Studies of Online or Offline Communities . Trust & Credibility . Online Community Detection . Measuring Influence . Online Identity (Gender, Private Self/Public Self) 2016 #SMSociety Organizing Committee: Anatoliy Gruzd & Philip Mai, Ryerson University, Canada Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada Dhiraj Murthy & Evelyn Ruppert, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK 2016 #SMSociety Conference Advisor: Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, Canada

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Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation IEG program will fund 14 community-led projects
by Pine W 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

Forwarding good news for a wide variety of domains including GLAM, research, education, maps, language tools, outreach, and more. Pine On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Marti Johnson <mjohnson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > In the latest round of Individual Engagement Grants > <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG>, 29 eligible proposals were > submitted for review. The committee recommended 14 for funding, with 19 > grantees selected to receive $83,113 overall. WMF has now approved all > 14 grants. Here’s what we’re funding.[1] > > Tools - 7 projects funded > > * Batch Uploader for small GLAM projects > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Batch_uploader_for_small_GLAM_pr…> > : > This project will create a simple batch content upload tool in order to > address the needs of smaller GLAM institutions who may not have the > necessary resources, including budget, time, or staff expertise, to operate > the existing tools used by larger galleries, libraries, archives, and > museums.[2] > > * Pan Scandinavian Machine Assisted Content Translation > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Pan-Scandinavian_Machine-assiste…> > : > Using Apertium, an open-source machine translation platform, this project > will create translation data for closely-related languages Swedish, Danish > and Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk) for use in Content Translation, an > on-wiki translation tool.[3] > > * StrepHit: Wikidata Statements Validation via Reference > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Va…> > : > Using natural language processing, this project will take online content > from a selection of (non-Wikimedia) websites and documents and then > automatically convert the raw text into references to external sources > thereby verifying the data provided in existing Wikidata statements.[4] > > * Wikimaps Warper 2.0 > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikimaps_Warper_2.0>: > This project will focus on improvements to Map Warper, an open-source tool > used for digitally aligning and overlaying historical maps, in order to > make the software more accessible to Wikimedians and better integrated with > Wikimedia projects.[5] > > * Wiki Needs Pictures > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wiki_needs_pictures>: > By centralizing multiple sources of data including local templates, > category labels, and Wikidata item properties in one application, this > project will create a coordinated image request system with a > mobile-friendly map-based interface that allows contributors to easily > discover where there is demand from Wikimedia projects for specific > images.[6] > > * Semi-automatically generate Categories for Vietnamese Wikipedia > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Semi-automatically_generate_Cate…> > : > By implementing natural language processing patterns, this project aims to > create and apply English Wikipedia category structures to Vietnamese > Wikipedia with the help of the community to evaluate and standardize the > naming convention process.[7] > > * Proofreading semi-automatically the Catalan Wikipedia with LanguageTool > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Proofreading_semiautomatically_t…> > : > Using the open source program LanguageTool, this project will supervise > the analysis of content, document common grammar errors, and develop bots > and scripts to replicate their corresponding edits in Catalan Wikipedia. > [8] > > Offline Outreach & Partnership - 5 projects funded > > * Editing Maithili Wikipedia > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Editing_Maithili_Wikipedia>: > This project will deliver a series of in-person training sessions to > students in Nepal’s Satpari District in order to create and nurture an > active group of editors on Maithili-language Wikipedia.[9] > > * Increase Awareness of and Participation in Indic Language Wikipedias in > Colorado > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Increase_Awareness_of_and_partic…> > : > Small group instruction and training in native language typing in multiple > Indic scripts are the focus of this project which seeks to eliminate some > of the barriers preventing the Indian diaspora community of Colorado > Springs, CO from editing on Marathi, Gujarati, Hindi,Telugu, and Tamil > Wikipedias.[10] > > * Motivational and educational video to introduce Wikimedia Video > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_vid…> > : > This project will create a modular series of instructional videos that can > be updated and translated as needed, and that can be used to successfully > onboard new editors en masse, for example, at edit-a-thons and other events > where it is not possible to have the involvement of experienced > Wikimedians.[11] > > * Wikitherapy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikitherapy>: > An exploration of both the accessibility of Wikimedia editing and the > transformative power of participation, this project will bring Wikimedia > projects including Commons, Wiktionary, and Wikisource to institutional > therapy settings by developing outreach and training materials that > specifically meet the needs of therapy patients.[12] > > * Senior Citizens Write in Sanskrit Wikipedia > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Senior_Citizens_Write_in_Sanskri…> > : > This project will engage speakers of one of the oldest languages of the > world to contribute to an untapped Wikipedia community by partnering with > Sree Somnath Sanskrit University and promoting community activities to > engage active editors and improve content quality.[13] > > Online Community Organizing - 1 project funded > > * Growing Kannada language Wikimedia Projects with a digital library > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Growing_Kannada-language_Wikimed…> > : > By engaging the online community of Pustaka Sanchaya, a crowdsourced > database of Kannada literature and publications, this project will seek to > recruit new editors who can create and expand content on Kannada Wikimedia > projects using the references and citations available through Pustaka > Sanchaya.[14] > > Research - 1 project funded > > * Editor Behavior Analysis > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Editor_Behaviour_Analysis>: > A user-friendly mechanism for generating dynamic and interactive data > visualizations is the goal of this project which will enable researchers to > better understand editing behaviour including type of articles edited by > new editors and devices and tools used for editing.[15] > > You can read more about this round in the IEG committee’s post on the > Wikimedia Foundation blog.[16] > > > The next open call is scheduled for March 1-31, 2016. > > > Congratulations to the successful grantees! > > > > 1. > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG> > 2. > > < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Batch_uploader_for_small_GLAM_pr… > > > 3. > > < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Pan-Scandinavian_Machine-assiste… > > > 4. > > < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Va… > > > 5. > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikimaps_Warper_2.0> > 6. > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wiki_needs_pictures> > 7. > > < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Semi-automatically_generate_Cate… > > > 8. > > < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Proofreading_semiautomatically_t… > > > 9. > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Editing_Maithili_Wikipedia> > 10. > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Increase_Awareness_of_and_partic… > > > 11. > > < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_vid… > > > 12. > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikitherapy> > 13. > > < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Senior_Citizens_Write_in_Sanskri… > > > 14. > > < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Growing_Kannada-language_Wikimed… > > > 15. > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Editor_Behaviour_Analysis> > 16. > > <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/12/04/ieg-funds-fourteen-projects/> > > > > > *Marti JohnsonProgram Officer* > *Individual Grants* > *Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>* > +1 415-839-6885 > Skype: Mjohnson_WMF > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share > <http://youtu.be/ci0Pihl2zXY> in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make > it a reality! > Support Wikimedia <https://donate.wikimedia.org/> > > _______________________________________________ > Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately > directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia > community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list > WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l > >

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Fwd: "Wikipedia as the front matter to all research": A brown bag on scholarly citations in Wikipedia this Friday 12/4 @ 12 PT
by Dario Taraborelli 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

A reminder that this will be streamed today at 9pm CET / 12pm PST You can join the conversation via IRC on #wikimedia-office Dario > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> > > Come and join us for a brown bag this Friday December 4 at 12 PT to learn about unique identifiers and scholarly citations in Wikipedia, why they matter and how we can bridge the gap between the Wikimedia, research and librarian communities. > > Wikipedia as the front matter to all research > > YouTube stream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB_oexqz8pA <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB_oexqz8pA> > Event information on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_as_the_front_matter_to_all_resear… <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_as_the_front_matter_to_all_resear…> > > Measuring citizen engagement with the scholarly literature through Wikipedia citations. > Geoffrey Bilder, CrossRef > > Wikipedia (in toto) is probably the 5th largest referrer of citations to the scholarly literature. That is, more Wikipedia users click on and follow citations to the scholarly literature *from* Wikipedia domains than from any single scholarly publisher in the world. What does this tell us about general interest in the scholarly literature? What does this tell us about scholarly engagement with editing Wikipedia articles? The short answer is “we don’t know.” But we are actively working with Wikimedia to find out. > > Building the sum of all human citations > Dario Taraborelli, WIkimedia Foundation > > As sourcing and verifiability of online information are threatened <http://www.slideshare.net/dartar/citing-as-a-public-service-building-the-su…> by the explosion of answer engines and the changing habits of web users, Wikimedia has an outstanding opportunity to extract and store source data for any conceivable statement and make it transparently verifiable by its users. In this talk, I’ll present a grassroots effort <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData> to create a human-curated, comprehensive repository of all human citations in Wikidata. > > ––––––––––––– > Bonus read: a real-time tracker of scholarly citations added to Wikipedia, built with Raspberry Pi > http://blog.crossref.org/2015/12/crossref-labs-plays-with-the-raspberry-pi-… <http://blog.crossref.org/2015/12/crossref-labs-plays-with-the-raspberry-pi-…> > Dario Taraborelli Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org <http://wikimediafoundation.org/> • nitens.org <http://nitens.org/> • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>

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"Wikipedia as the front matter to all research": A brown bag on scholarly citations in Wikipedia this Friday 12/4 @ 12 PT
by Dario Taraborelli 02 Dec '15

02 Dec '15

Come and join us for a brown bag this Friday December 4 at 12 PT to learn about unique identifiers and scholarly citations in Wikipedia, why they matter and how we can bridge the gap between the Wikimedia, research and librarian communities. Wikipedia as the front matter to all research YouTube stream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB_oexqz8pA <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB_oexqz8pA> Event information on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_as_the_front_matter_to_all_resear… <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_as_the_front_matter_to_all_resear…> Measuring citizen engagement with the scholarly literature through Wikipedia citations. Geoffrey Bilder, CrossRef Wikipedia (in toto) is probably the 5th largest referrer of citations to the scholarly literature. That is, more Wikipedia users click on and follow citations to the scholarly literature *from* Wikipedia domains than from any single scholarly publisher in the world. What does this tell us about general interest in the scholarly literature? What does this tell us about scholarly engagement with editing Wikipedia articles? The short answer is “we don’t know.” But we are actively working with Wikimedia to find out. Building the sum of all human citations Dario Taraborelli, WIkimedia Foundation As sourcing and verifiability of online information are threatened <http://www.slideshare.net/dartar/citing-as-a-public-service-building-the-su…> by the explosion of answer engines and the changing habits of web users, Wikimedia has an outstanding opportunity to extract and store source data for every conceivable statement and make it transparently verifiable by its users. In this talk, I’ll present a grassroots effort <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData> to create a human-curated, comprehensive repository of all human citations in Wikidata. ––––––––––––– Bonus read: a real-time tracker of scholarly citations added to Wikipedia, built with Raspberry Pi http://blog.crossref.org/2015/12/crossref-labs-plays-with-the-raspberry-pi-… <http://blog.crossref.org/2015/12/crossref-labs-plays-with-the-raspberry-pi-…> Dario Taraborelli Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org <http://wikimediafoundation.org/> • nitens.org <http://nitens.org/> • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>

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The Wikimedia Research Newsletter 5(11) is out
by masssly＠ymail.com 01 Dec '15

01 Dec '15

The November 2015 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/12/01/research-newsletter-november-2015/ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2015/November In this issue: 1 "Are Wikipedia citations important evidence of the impact of scholarly articles and books?" 2 Exploration of co-stardom networks between 1920 and 1930 using Wikidata 3 Briefly 3.1 "Editing for equality: the outcomes of the Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thons" 3.2 Research at Wikimania 2016 *** 12 recent publications were covered or listed in this issue *** Thanks to Daniel Mietchen, Guillaume Paumier and Piotr Konieczny 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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Revision scoring as a service launched
by Dario Taraborelli 01 Dec '15

01 Dec '15

We just published an announcement on the Wikimedia blog marking the official launch of revision scoring as a service <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service> and I wanted to say a few words about this project: Blog post: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/11/30/artificial-intelligence-x-ray-specs/ <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/11/30/artificial-intelligence-x-ray-specs/> Docs on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ORES <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ORES> First off: what’s revision scoring <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service#Rati…>? On the surface, it’s a set of open APIs allowing you to automatically “score” any edit and measure their probability of being damaging or good-faith contributions. The real goal behind this project, though, is to fix the damage indirectly caused by vandal-fighting bots and tools on good-faith contributors and to bring back a collaborative dimension to how we do quality control on Wikipedia. I invite you to read the whole blog post <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/11/30/artificial-intelligence-x-ray-specs/> if you want to know more about the motivations and expected outcome of this project. I am thrilled this project is coming to fruition and I’d like to congratulate Aaron Halfaker <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Ahalfaker> and all the project contributors <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service#Team> on hitting this big milestone: revision scoring started as Aaron’s side project well over a year ago and it has been co-designed (as in – literally – conceived, implemented, tested, improved and finally adopted) by a distributed team of volunteer developers, editors, and researchers. We worked with volunteers in 14 different Wikipedia language editions and as of today revision scores are integrated <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service#Tool…> in the workflow of several quality control interfaces, WikiProjects and 3rd party tools. The project would not have seen the light without the technical support provided by the TechOps team (Yuvi in particular) and seminal funding provided by the WMF IEG program and Wikimedia Germany. So, here you go: the next time someone tells you that LLAMAS GROW ON TREES <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=642215410> you can confidently tell them they should stop damaging <http://ores.wmflabs.org/scores/enwiki/damaging/642215410/> Wikipedia. Dario Dario Taraborelli Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org <http://wikimediafoundation.org/> • nitens.org <http://nitens.org/> • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>

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Research-related activities at Wikimania 2016
by Daniel Mietchen 29 Nov '15

29 Nov '15

Dear all, we have started to collect ideas on how to cover research-related topics at the next Wikimania: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_bids/Esino_Lario/Program/Lia… . Your contributions there would be most welcome. Thanks and cheers, Daniel

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