Thanks for forwarding that post, which has passages that are relevant to
discussions about volunteer motivation and positive reinforcement. The only
significant downside that I see to the system described in the post is that
this all-volunteer model relies on a leader to give up a huge chunk of time
that's well beyond what's reasonable for most people to give. Except for
that point, this system makes sense to me and we could design some
adaptations for Wikipedia that are based on this advice.
Pine
On Oct 12, 2015 6:08 PM, "Joseph Fox" <josephfoxwiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hera is an awesome person. So happy to see her doing well!
>
> Joe
>
> On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 at 22:56 Richard Symonds <
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> > All,
> >
> > I thought it would be helpful to share with you all this blog post from a
> > key volunteer at Wikimania 2014, who has gone on to launch a domestic
> > violence charity on a shoestring budget.
> >
> > It explains how she went about it, what their workflows are, how they
> > attract and keep volunteers, how they use open licensing to make a real
> > difference in a non-open-movement group. I've already got some great new
> > ideas from it, and it has ideas that could help all of us, from the WMF
> to
> > WMIE.
> >
> > Key reading, I think, for those who have even a small group of Wikimedia
> > volunteers and no budget!
> >
> > It's at
> >
> >
> https://medium.com/@hera/running-a-fluid-and-democratic-volunteer-run-organ…
> >
> >
> > Richard Symonds
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Hi everyone,
Do we have the pagecounts data since 2007 at WMF on HDFS?
I mean this data:
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/
I could find this:
hdfs:/wmf/data/archive/pagecounts-all-sites/
but it the data spans only about 2 years, not the entire time since 2007.
Thanks!
Bob
Hi, you may have read
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/08/bassel-missing-syria/ about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassel_Khartabil and focusing on one of
his projects, building free 3D models of Palmyra, before he was
detained. Bassel also did outreach for free/open projects throughout the
region and dreamed of projects to increase the number and quality of
articles on Arabic Wikipedia. But he is in prison, now taken to an
unknown location. :(
Bassel's friend and advocate Jon Phillips (not on this list but cc'd) is
looking to talk to people who are actually engaged in efforts to grow
the Arabic Wikipedia community and articles, I believe in order to show
the kind of work Bassel would have been doing and that the world has
lost, and to be supportive of others carrying on that work.
If anyone has such contacts who would be willing to talk to Jon, feel
free to reply on- or offlist as appropriate.
This seemed to be the most appropriate list for me to ask on because it
is one of a few wikimedia ones that I'm on :) and because I figure that
best such efforts will be paired with research. I did look at
http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page and
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Projects -- I see lots of
papers doing some kind of semantic analysis of Arabic Wikipedia, one
study of the Arab spring
http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/Collective_memory_building_in_Wikipedia…
and a master's thesis that seems to be unavailable
http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/Motivational_voluntary_knowledge_sharin…
-- the best lead might be
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Mapping_Wikipedia_in_the_Middle_Ea…
which looks broad but potentially very relevant. Have I missed anything
obvious, or non-obvious because too new/ongoing?
...
Another question, mostly out of (idle, but this seems like a good time
to ask) personal curiosity: is there a line of research about movements
that looks at responses to movement members in distress, perhaps in
order to characterize level of solidarity, maturity, or some other
feature of movement, or to map connections between movements? Or
concerning how vulnerable movement members are to various forms of
persecution, perhaps in order to characterize where movement operates
with regard to law and norms of society? I figure there must be but my
super naive searches haven't turned up anything.
I'm curious because I wonder how free/libre/open/wiki movements compare
to other movements and member vulnerability/responses to member distress
seem like a potential thing to compare, and I notice how Bassel, who had
'weak ties' to a whole bunch of open movements (and 'strong ties' to
Creative Commons) has gotten a fair amount of support from ... a whole
bunch (which is good of course).
Thanks for reading.
Mike
Hey researchers,
Applicants for the current round of Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) have
submitted two proposals that are heavily devoted to research activities:
Editor Behaviour Analysis
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Editor_Behaviour_Analysis> >
Aims to explore different ways to visualise general edit activity on a wiki
Ghana Editor Study
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Ghana_Editor_Study> > Study of
different Ghanaian Wikipedia editor groups to assess motivation
Applicants are seeking your feedback in these research initiatives. If one
of these ideas any of the other current proposals interests you, consider
reading it over, and feel free to endorse, express concerns, make
suggestions, and ask questions. Your input and expertise will help the
applicants develop better proposals, and support the IEG Committee during
their evaluation. Comments are requested until October 19th.
You are, of course, welcome to check out and comment on other IEG
applications for this round
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-join>.
With thanks,
Jethro
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Community Organizer, Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi All
This is my first time posing on this list, I'm sorry if it is perhaps a
little off topic. I'm currently Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO and plan
to run an online collaboration, a little bit like a short term Wikiproject
with two main goals:
- Help organise reuse of UNESCO content on Wikimedia projects (UNESCO
has released content under an open license and will do more shortly).
- Help improve content on Wikimedia of the subjects of UNESCO programmes
e.g the World Heritage Sites.
I have been planning ways that I can use tools to:
- Organise work for contributors across all languages
- Provide contributors feedback on their contributions (e.g page views
for all contributions combined)
- Measure success of the project.
I've been doing this on wiki here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:John_Cummings/Planning_UNESCO_metrics
In short I'm finding it very hard to find the tools needed, I have found
less than a third of what I think would be helpful but found others that
may be tangentially useful which I've added in.
Any help would be appreciate, please feel free to comment here, on the talk
page or just add tools to the fields
Thanks
John
The September 2015 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/06/research-newsletter-september-2015/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2015/September
In this issue:
1 “Teaching Philosophy by Designing a Wikipedia Page”
2 Wikipedia Search Isn’t Necessarily Third BESt
3 More newbies mean more conflict, but extreme tolerance can still achieve eternal peace
4 Predicting Wikimedia pageviews with 2% accuracy
5 Wiktionary special
5.1 “Online dictionaries in Web 2.0 platform – Wikiszótár and Wiktionary”
5.2 “GLAWI, a free XML-encoded Machine-Readable Dictionary built from the French Wiktionary”
5.3 “IWNLP: Inverse Wiktionary for Natural Language Processing”
5.4 “knoWitiary: A Machine Readable Incarnation of Wiktionary”
5.5 “Zmorge: A German Morphological Lexicon Extracted from Wiktionary”
5.6 “Dbnary: Wiktionary as Linked Data for 12 Language Editions with Enhanced Translation Relations”
5.7 “Observing Online Dictionary Users: Studies Using Wiktionary Log Files”
6 In brief
6.1 “Multilingual Open Relation Extraction Using Cross-lingual Projection”
*** 12 publications were covered in this issue ***
Thanks to Federico Leva, Panda10, Piotr Konieczny and Trey Jones for contributing.
Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli
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*CFP: Semantic Web Journal - Special Issue on Quality Management of
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*Deadline (_only 1 month left_):October 31, 2015
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request an account on the website for submitting a paper. Please
indicate in the cover letter that it is for the Special Issue on Quality
Management of Semantic Web Assets (Data, Services and Systems).
Submissions are possible in the following categories: full research
papers, application reports, reports on tools and systems, and case
studies. While there is no upper limit, paper length must be justified
by content.
Guest editors
* Amrapali Zaveri, University of Leipzig, AKSW Group, Germany
* Dimitris Kontokostas, University of Leipzig, AKSW Group, Germany
* Sebastian Hellmann, University of Leipzig, AKSW Group, Germany
* Jürgen Umbrich, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
*Overview and Topics*
The standardization and adoption of Semantic Web technologies has
resulted in a variety of assets, including an unprecedented volume of
data being semantically enriched and systems and services, which consume
or publish this data. Although gathering, processing and publishing data
is a step towards further adoption of Semantic Web, quality does not yet
play a central role in these assets (e.g., data lifecycle,
system/service development).
Quality management essentially refers to activities and tasks involved
to guarantee a certain level of consistency and to meet the quality
requirements for the assets. In general, quality management consists of
the following four phases and components: (i) quality planning, (ii)
quality control, (iii) quality assurance and (iv) quality improvement.
The quality planning phase in the Semantic Web typically involves the
design of procedures, strategies and policies to support the management
of the assets. The quality control and assurance components have their
primary aim in preventing errors and to meet quality requirements
pertaining to the Semantic Web standards. A core part for both
components are quality assessment methods which provide the necessary
input for the controlling and assurance tasks.
Quality assessment of Semantic Web Assets (data, services and systems),
in particular, presents new challenges that were not handled before in
other research areas. Thus, adopting existing approaches for data
quality assessment is not a straightforward solution. These challenges
are related to the openness of the Semantic Web, the diversity of the
information and the unbounded, dynamic set of autonomous data sources,
publishers and consumers (legal and software agents). Additionally,
detecting the quality of available data sources and making the
information explicit is yet another challenge. Moreover, noise in one
data set, or missing links between different data sets, propagates
throughout the Web of Data, and imposes great challenges on the data
value chain.
In case of systems and services, different implementations follow the
specifications for RDF and SPARQL to varying extents, or even propose
and offer new, non-standardized extensions. This causes strong
incompatibilities between systems, e.g., between the used SPARQL
features in the query engines and support features in RDF stores. The
potential heterogeneity and incompatibility poses several challenges for
the quality assessments in and for such systems and services.
Eventually, quality improvement methods are used to further enhance the
value of the Semantic Web Assets. One important step to improve the
quality of data is identifying the root cause of the problem and then
designing corresponding data improvement solutions. These solutions
select the most effective and efficient strategies and related set of
techniques and tools to improve quality. Quality improvement metrics for
products and services entails understanding and improving operational
processes and establishing valid and reliable service performance measures.
This Special Issue is addressed to those members of the community
interested in providing novel methodologies or frameworks in managing,
assessing, monitoring, maintaining and improving the quality of the
Semantic Web data, services and systems and also introduce tools and
user interfaces which can effectively assist in this management.
Topics of Interest
We welcome original high quality submissions on (but are not restricted
to) the following topics:
* Methodologies and frameworks to plan, control, assure or improve the
quality of Semantic Web Assets
* Quality exploration and analysis interfaces
* Quality monitoring
* Developing, deploying and managing quality service ecosystems
* Assessing the quality evolution of Semantic Web Assets
* Large-scale quality assessment of structured datasets
* Crowdsourcing data quality assessment
* Quality assessment leveraging background knowledge
* Use-case driven quality management
* Evaluation of trustworthiness of data
* Web Data and LOD quality benchmarks
* Data Quality improvement methods and frameworks, e.g., linkage,
alignment, cleaning, enrichment, correctness
* Service/system quality improvement methods and frameworks
* Managing sustainability issues in services
* Guarantee of service (availability, performance)
* Systems for transparent management of open data
You may have heard about the in-progress work on the Code of Conduct for
Wikimedia technical spaces
(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_conduct_for_technical_spaces/Draft).
It is currently in draft form, and we are in the process of finalizing
the intro, "Principles", "Expected behavior" and "Unacceptable behavior"
sections.
An earlier version of these sections (except for "Expected behavior")
reached consensus.
However, there is now a new draft, and you can weigh in on whether to
use it instead:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_conduct_for_technical_spaces/Dr…
.
I will continue to ask for your feedback as we discuss the remaining
sections later.
Thanks,
Matt Flaschen
Hi Research community (and especially Wikimedia analytics),
Are there any up-to-date & relatively pretty visualizations of the
current mobile pageview data --eg a comparison chart between desktop &
mobile for global traffic for Wikipedia and/or all projects?
(Stats.wikimedia.org just has desktop, afaik). I know Oliver & Toby
presented such a thing in May 2014, but I don't know if there's a
current version.
Thanks in advance! I am trying to put a presentation together, looking
for the latest numbers and ideally a graph I can use.
Phoebe
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