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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] [wikicite-discuss] Leaving the Wikimedia Foundation, staying on the wikis
by Daniel Mietchen 14 Feb '19

14 Feb '19

Hi Dario and Leila, it's been a pleasure collaborating with you in the past, and I hope this will continue despite the changes in your roles. Best, Daniel On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:13 PM Yaroslav Blanter <ymbalt(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Dario, thanks for your effort. It was a pleasure working with you, and I am > also happy that you will stay around as a volunteer. My congratulations to > Leila. Whereas at this point I am rather skeptical and sometimes vocal > about WMF in general, I have a tremendous respect for both of you. > > Cheers > Yaroslav > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:05 PM Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Dario -- what news! And how close that seems to your recent pushing of us > > all. > > How lucky the projects have been to have you building a research > > constellation, for these many years. > > > > Leila, congrats + warm wishes in your new role. > > > > With wikilove and taxonometrics, > > SJ > > > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 4:56 PM Dario Taraborelli < > > dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > > > Hey all, > > > > > > I've got some personal news to share. > > > > > > After 8 years with Wikimedia, I have decided to leave the Foundation to > > > take up a new role focused on open science. This has been a difficult > > > decision but an opportunity arose and I am excited to be moving on to an > > > area that’s been so close to my heart for years. > > > > > > Serving the movement as part of the Research team at WMF has been, and > > > will definitely be, the most important gig in my life. I leave a team of > > > ridiculously talented and fun people that I can’t possibly imagine not > > > spending all of my days with, as well many collaborators and friends in > > the > > > community who have I worked alongside. I am proud and thankful to have > > been > > > part of this journey with you all. With my departure, Leila Zia is taking > > > the lead of Research at WMF, and you all couldn't be in better hands. > > > > > > In March, I’ll be joining CZI Science—a philanthropy based in the Bay > > > Area—to help build their portfolio of open science programs and > > technology. > > > I'll continue to be an ally on the same fights in my new role. > > > > > > Other than that, I look forward to returning to full volunteer mode. I > > > started editing English Wikipedia in 2004, working on bloody chapters in > > > the history of London <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithfield,_London>; > > hypothetical > > > astronomy <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine>; unsung heroes > > > among women in science <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Potter>; and > > > of course natural > > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_South_Napa_earthquake>, technical > > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2016_Dyn_cyberattack> and > > political > > > disasters > > > < > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_State… > > >. > > > I’ve also developed an embarrassing addiction to Wikidata, and you’ll > > > continue seeing me around hacking those instances of Q16521 > > > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16521> for a little while. > > > > > > I hope our paths cross once again in the future. > > > > > > Best, > > > > > > Dario > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > *Dario Taraborelli *Director, Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation > > > research.wikimedia.org • nitens.org • @readermeter > > > <http://twitter.com/readermeter> > > > > > > -- > > > Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite > > > Twitter: https://twitter.com/wikicite > > > --- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "wikicite-discuss" group. > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > > email to wikicite-discuss+unsubscribe(a)wikimedia.org. > > > > > > > > > -- > > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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What instructors think about teaching with Wikipedia AFTER having tried it?
by Piotr Konieczny 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

I am mulling over a new research topic: what researchers think about teaching with Wikipedia type of assignment AFTER having tried it? AFAIK we have a lot of papers on how to teach with Wikipedia, some on effects on students and some about what instructors think about Wikipedia in general, but correct me if I am wrong, nobody has actually asked instructors about their experience with it? And from my personal experience with seeing such projects on Wikipedia, I think there's a lot of people who try it once and don't come back and well, do we know why outside educated guesses? Right now I am just brainstorming this idea, so any thoughts, up to and including suggestions for what questions to ask, etc. are appreciated. Also, I am generally conducting solo research, and all my prior papers on 'teaching with Wikipedia' have been solo authored (and my goal is as always to turn this research into publishable paper), but if someone really, really, really would want to join this project because they love the idea, and would want to be a co-author of the future paper, and/or present the results at a WikiSym or such that I sadly go to every five years or so, feel free to send me a private message. No promises, but I don't bite :) -- Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus

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User type context sensitivity to introduction sections.
by Aaron Gray 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

I am suggesting WikiPedia has context-sensitive articles so if you are a kid or a layperson or an expert in a field you get a different introduction. Often the reason people don't read or use WikiPedia is articles are too complex at the start. Having an adaptive setting that can be chosen but users as default needs facilitating by WikiMedia technology. Thoughts and ideas and possible implementation ideas on this idea are welcomed. Regards, Aaron -- Aaron Gray Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language Researcher, Information Theorist, and amateur computer scientist.

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GSoC-19 project idea (proposal)
by K. Kaushik Reddy 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

Hi Team , This is Kaushik Reddy again. After a long work, I would like to introduce you to my idea proposal for the (Wikimedia) GSoC '19. Here is it: 1) Building an animation to dynamically create popups overlapped on a geographical map using a real-time API from Wikimedia. I had found the root of this in here( I have gone through it a bit): https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Data I would like to work this out as my Google summer of code-19 project for Wikimedia. I request anyone of you to please mentor me over this for GSoC' 19. I'm confident that I could build this one. Also, feel free to comment on this. With regards, Kaushik.

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User type context sensitivity to introdcution section.
by Aaron Gray 10 Feb '19

10 Feb '19

I am suggesting WikiPedia has context-sensitive articles so if you are a kid or a layperson or an expert in a field you get a different introduction. Often the reason people don't read WikiPedia articles is they are too complex at the start. This needs facilitating by WikiMedia technology. Thoughts and ideas and possible implementation ideas on this idea are welcomed. Regards, Aaron -- Aaron Gray Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language Researcher, Information Theorist, and amateur computer scientist.

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Farewell, Erik!
by Dario Taraborelli 09 Feb '19

09 Feb '19

“[R]ecent revisions of an article can be peeled off to reveal older layers, which are still meaningful for historians. Even graffiti applied by vandals can by its sheer informality convey meaningful information, just like historians learned a lot from graffiti on walls of classic Pompei. Likewise view patterns can tell future historians a lot about what was hot and what wasn’t in our times. Reason why these raw view data are meant to be preserved for a long time.” Erik Zachte wrote these lines in a blog post <https://web.archive.org/web/20171018194720/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/…> almost ten years ago, and I cannot find better words to describe the gift he gave us. Erik retired <http://infodisiac.com/back_to_volunteer_mode.htm> this past Friday, leaving behind an immense legacy. I had the honor to work with him for several years, and I hosted this morning an intimate, tearful celebration of what Erik has represented for the Wikimedia movement. His Wikistats project <https://stats.wikimedia.org/>—with his signature pale yellow background we've known and loved since the mid 2000s <https://web.archive.org/web/20060412043240/https://stats.wikimedia.org/>—has been much more than an "analytics platform". It's been an individual attempt he initiated, and grew over time, to try and comprehend and make sense of the largest open collaboration project in human history, driven by curiosity and by an insatiable desire to serve data to the communities that most needed it. Through this project, Erik has created a live record of data describing the growth and reach of all Wikimedia communities, across languages and projects, putting multi-lingualism and smaller communities at the very center of his attention. He coined metrics such as "active editors" that defined the benchmark for volunteers, the Wikimedia Foundation, and the academic community to understand some of the growing pains and editor retention issues <https://web.archive.org/web/20110608214507/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/…> the movement has faced. He created countless reports—that predate by nearly a decade modern visualizations of online attention—to understand what Wikipedia traffic means in the context of current events like elections <https://web.archive.org/web/20160405055621/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2008/…> or public health crises <https://web.archive.org/web/20090708011216/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/…>. He has created countless <https://twitter.com/Infodisiac/status/1039244151953543169> visualizations <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/27/new-interactive-visualization-wikiped…> that show the enormous gaps in local language content and representation that, as a movement, we face in our efforts to build an encyclopedia for and about everyone. He has also made extensive use of pie charts <https://web.archive.org/web/20141222073751/http://infodisiac.com/blog/wp-co…>, which—as friends—we are ready to turn a blind eye towards. Most importantly, the data Erik has brougth to life has been cited over 1,000 times <https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=stats.wikimedia.org> in the scholarly literature. If we gave credit to open data creators in the same way as we credit authors of scholarly papers, Erik would be one of the most influential authors in the field, and I don't think it is much of a stretch to say that the massive trove of data and metrics Erik has made available had a direct causal role in the birth and growth of the academic field of Wikimedia research, and more broadly, scholarship of online collaboration. Like I said this morning, Erik -- you have been not only an invaluable colleague and a steward for the movement, but also a very decent human being, and I am grateful we shared some of this journey together. Please join me in celebrating Erik on his well-deserved retirement, read his statement <http://infodisiac.com/back_to_volunteer_mode.htm> to learn what he's planning to do next, or check this lovely portrait <https://www.wired.com/2013/12/erik-zachte-wikistats/> Wired published a while back about "the Stats Master Making Sense of Wikipedia's Massive Data Trove". Dario -- *Dario Taraborelli *Director, Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation research.wikimedia.org • nitens.org • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 162, Issue 5
by erikzachte＠infodisiac.com 07 Feb '19

07 Feb '19

Rupert, presentation sheets are at http://infodisiac.com/Wikimedia/2014%20London.pdf Cheers, Erik -----Original Message----- From: Wiki-research-l <wiki-research-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> On Behalf Of wiki-research-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2019 13:00 To: wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 162, Issue 5 Send Wiki-research-l mailing list submissions to wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wiki-research-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wiki-research-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Wiki-research-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell, Erik! (rupert THURNER) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 11:21:27 +0100 From: rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner(a)gmail.com> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: "A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics." <analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] Farewell, Erik! Message-ID: <CAJs9aZ_4tVJc3Lbi-kUZbFhNUYGPJeodayqwKUjKnbX4sYP=ZQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Many thanks erik and all the best!! One sentence in eriks blog post cited i found surprising. What type of modesty you guys were talking about? "At Wikimania London (2014) I talked about how we should err on the side of modesty. That message never came across. I started to have a discussion on this within WMF but failed to bring this to fruition. My bad." On Wed, Feb 6, 2019, 22:18 Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org wrote: > “[R]ecent revisions of an article can be peeled off to reveal older > layers, which are still meaningful for historians. Even graffiti > applied by vandals can by its sheer informality convey meaningful > information, just like historians learned a lot from graffiti on walls > of classic Pompei. Likewise view patterns can tell future historians a > lot about what was hot and what wasn’t in our times. Reason why these > raw view data are meant to be preserved for a long time.” > > Erik Zachte wrote these lines in a blog post < > https://web.archive.org/web/20171018194720/http://infodisiac.com/blog/ > 2009/07/michael-jackson/ > > > almost > ten years ago, and I cannot find better words to describe the gift he > gave us. Erik retired > <http://infodisiac.com/back_to_volunteer_mode.htm> this past Friday, > leaving behind an immense legacy. I had the honor to work with him for > several years, and I hosted this morning an intimate, tearful celebration of what Erik has represented for the Wikimedia movement. > > His Wikistats project <https://stats.wikimedia.org/>—with his > signature pale yellow background we've known and loved since the mid > 2000s > <https://web.archive.org/web/20060412043240/https://stats.wikimedia.or > g/ > >—has > been much more than an "analytics platform". It's been an individual > attempt he initiated, and grew over time, to try and comprehend and > make sense of the largest open collaboration project in human history, > driven by curiosity and by an insatiable desire to serve data to the > communities that most needed it. > > Through this project, Erik has created a live record of data > describing the growth and reach of all Wikimedia communities, across > languages and projects, putting multi-lingualism and smaller > communities at the very center of his attention. He coined metrics > such as "active editors" that defined the benchmark for volunteers, > the Wikimedia Foundation, and the academic community to understand > some of the growing pains and editor retention issues < > https://web.archive.org/web/20110608214507/http://infodisiac.com/blog/ > 2009/12/new-editors-are-joining-english-wikipedia-in-droves/ > > > the movement has faced. He created countless reports—that predate by > nearly a decade modern visualizations of online attention—to > understand what Wikipedia traffic means in the context of current > events like elections < > https://web.archive.org/web/20160405055621/http://infodisiac.com/blog/ > 2008/09/sarah-palin/ > > > or public health crises > < > https://web.archive.org/web/20090708011216/http://infodisiac.com/blog/ > 2009/05/h1n1-flu-or-new-flu-or/ > >. > He has created countless > <https://twitter.com/Infodisiac/status/1039244151953543169> > visualizations < > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/27/new-interactive-visualization-wi > kipedia/ > > > that show the enormous gaps in local language content and > representation that, as a movement, we face in our efforts to build an > encyclopedia for and about everyone. He has also made extensive use of > pie charts < > https://web.archive.org/web/20141222073751/http://infodisiac.com/blog/ > wp-content/uploads/2008/10/piechartscorrected.png > >, > which—as friends—we are ready to turn a blind eye towards. > > Most importantly, the data Erik has brougth to life has been cited > over > 1,000 times > < > https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=stats.wikimedi > a.org > > > in the scholarly literature. If we gave credit to open data creators > in the same way as we credit authors of scholarly papers, Erik would > be one of the most influential authors in the field, and I don't think > it is much of a stretch to say that the massive trove of data and > metrics Erik has made available had a direct causal role in the birth > and growth of the academic field of Wikimedia research, and more > broadly, scholarship of online collaboration. > > Like I said this morning, Erik -- you have been not only an invaluable > colleague and a steward for the movement, but also a very decent human > being, and I am grateful we shared some of this journey together. > > Please join me in celebrating Erik on his well-deserved retirement, > read his statement <http://infodisiac.com/back_to_volunteer_mode.htm> > to learn what he's planning to do next, or check this lovely portrait > <https://www.wired.com/2013/12/erik-zachte-wikistats/> Wired published > a while back about "the Stats Master Making Sense of Wikipedia's > Massive Data Trove". > > Dario > > > -- > *Dario Taraborelli *Director, Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation > research.wikimedia.org • nitens.org • @readermeter > <http://twitter.com/readermeter> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l ------------------------------ End of Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 162, Issue 5 ***********************************************

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Analytics] Farewell, Erik!
by Leila Zia 07 Feb '19

07 Feb '19

Erik, It's been an incredible honor to work with you as a colleague and a volunteer. Thank you for the stats and all the conversations about categories, topics, languages, ..., but even more so for showing me the path and the purpose, time after time. I will dearly miss you in Wikimedia Foundation, and I hope that I can be a steward of what you stood for (or at least I can say that I will continue to try:). Enjoy your new endeavors and see you around. Regards, Leila On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 3:22 PM Christian Aistleitner <christian(a)quelltextlich.at> wrote: > > Hi Erik, > > Thank you for your work! > > When I first came across Wikistats, it completely blew my mind. Such a > huge collection of raw data turned into digestible information. It's > amazing, stunning, and above all: enlightening. > I've spent countless hours digging through Wikistats in awe. > > But besides the gargantuan effort that Wikistats represents, I even > more value your passion for the data and information it holds, your > second-to-none expertise on it, and your willingness to go through the > details and numbers with each and everyone, regardless where they come > from, your openness, your unbiased-ness, your constructive approach, > and your never-shying-away from discussions about the numbers and > trends. > > Enjoy your retirement from WMF, and seeing your blog post and your > tree mapping project, I'm sure it'll be an amazing "Unruhestand" :-) > > Have fun, > Christian > > > > On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 01:17:48PM -0800, Dario Taraborelli wrote: > > “[R]ecent revisions of an article can be peeled off to reveal older layers, > > which are still meaningful for historians. Even graffiti applied by vandals > > can by its sheer informality convey meaningful information, just like > > historians learned a lot from graffiti on walls of classic Pompei. Likewise > > view patterns can tell future historians a lot about what was hot and what > > wasn’t in our times. Reason why these raw view data are meant to be > > preserved for a long time.” > > > > Erik Zachte wrote these lines in a blog post > > <https://web.archive.org/web/20171018194720/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/…> > > almost > > ten years ago, and I cannot find better words to describe the gift he gave > > us. Erik retired <http://infodisiac.com/back_to_volunteer_mode.htm> this > > past Friday, leaving behind an immense legacy. I had the honor to work with > > him for several years, and I hosted this morning an intimate, tearful > > celebration of what Erik has represented for the Wikimedia movement. > > > > His Wikistats project <https://stats.wikimedia.org/>—with his signature > > pale yellow background we've known and loved since the mid 2000s > > <https://web.archive.org/web/20060412043240/https://stats.wikimedia.org/>—has > > been much more than an "analytics platform". It's been an individual > > attempt he initiated, and grew over time, to try and comprehend and make > > sense of the largest open collaboration project in human history, driven by > > curiosity and by an insatiable desire to serve data to the communities that > > most needed it. > > > > Through this project, Erik has created a live record of data describing the > > growth and reach of all Wikimedia communities, across languages and > > projects, putting multi-lingualism and smaller communities at the very > > center of his attention. He coined metrics such as "active editors" that > > defined the benchmark for volunteers, the Wikimedia Foundation, and the > > academic community to understand some of the growing pains and editor > > retention issues > > <https://web.archive.org/web/20110608214507/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/…> > > the movement has faced. He created countless reports—that predate by nearly > > a decade modern visualizations of online attention—to understand what > > Wikipedia traffic means in the context of current events like elections > > <https://web.archive.org/web/20160405055621/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2008/…> > > or public health crises > > <https://web.archive.org/web/20090708011216/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/…>. > > He has created countless > > <https://twitter.com/Infodisiac/status/1039244151953543169> visualizations > > <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/27/new-interactive-visualization-wikiped…> > > that show the enormous gaps in local language content and representation > > that, as a movement, we face in our efforts to build an encyclopedia for > > and about everyone. He has also made extensive use of pie charts > > <https://web.archive.org/web/20141222073751/http://infodisiac.com/blog/wp-co…>, > > which—as friends—we are ready to turn a blind eye towards. > > > > Most importantly, the data Erik has brougth to life has been cited over > > 1,000 times > > <https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=stats.wikimedia.org> > > in the scholarly literature. If we gave credit to open data creators in the > > same way as we credit authors of scholarly papers, Erik would be one of the > > most influential authors in the field, and I don't think it is much of a > > stretch to say that the massive trove of data and metrics Erik has made > > available had a direct causal role in the birth and growth of the academic > > field of Wikimedia research, and more broadly, scholarship of online > > collaboration. > > > > Like I said this morning, Erik -- you have been not only an invaluable > > colleague and a steward for the movement, but also a very decent human > > being, and I am grateful we shared some of this journey together. > > > > Please join me in celebrating Erik on his well-deserved retirement, read > > his statement <http://infodisiac.com/back_to_volunteer_mode.htm> to learn > > what he's planning to do next, or check this lovely portrait > > <https://www.wired.com/2013/12/erik-zachte-wikistats/> Wired published a > > while back about "the Stats Master Making Sense of Wikipedia's Massive Data > > Trove". > > > > Dario > > > > > > -- > > *Dario Taraborelli *Director, Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation > > research.wikimedia.org • nitens.org • @readermeter > > <http://twitter.com/readermeter> > > > _______________________________________________ > > Analytics mailing list > > Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > > -- > ---- quelltextlich e.U. ---- \\ ---- Christian Aistleitner ---- > Companies' registry: 360296y in Linz > Christian Aistleitner > Kefermarkterstrasze 6a/3 Email: christian(a)quelltextlich.at > 4293 Gutau, Austria Phone: +43 7946 / 20 5 81 > Fax: +43 7946 / 20 5 81 > Homepage: http://quelltextlich.at/ > --------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics

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Strange Edits from Bot (in CS bios)
by Daniel Moyer 07 Feb '19

07 Feb '19

Hi all, Sorry, I didn't know where to raise this issue. I was recently reading about some CS theory topics, and came across this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ming_Li&oldid=882127233 Clearly something weird is going on. Going into the edits, I found that the strange parts about a cat from Groningen are from this bot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:KolbertBot Does anyone know what's up with this? Sorry if this is the wrong venue, but I thought people might be familiar with this bot or its owner. Thanks, Daniel

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language
by Pine W 06 Feb '19

06 Feb '19

Forwarding. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 10:35 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi all, Update time. Given that this is a long email: there is an action item in the 5th bullet point below for the language communities who want to participate in the next iteration of the study. If you are interested to have your language included in the study, we need a response by 2019-02-15. See below for more. * The paper on Why the World Reads Wikipedia is accepted in WSDM '19 [1]. If you are planning to attend the conference, stop by to hear Florian Lemmerich presenting the work. You can read the paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.00474 . If you have time to only read one subsection of the paper, we would recommend section 4.4. Summary of Results. From there, you can start reading the other parts of the paper depending on your interest about introduction, methodology and data, etc. If you prefer to watch a presentation about the paper, you can check out the December 2018 Research showcase [2]. * Remember that our offer to provide presentations and discuss the result with your language community, if your language is part of the 14 languages in the study [3], is still on the table. :) If you want to talk with us about this topic, sign up at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Read… . No pressure from us: only if having a conversation about readers help your language community in what you do. * We have put extensive effort to document the code [4] and data [5] for this research such that each language community can dive in their data as they see fit. * What's next? The previous results made one point clear to us: geography and language matter and depending on from where in the world the reader is accessing a specific Wikipedia language, they may have different needs and motivations [6]. We hypothesize that age, gender, education, native language, as well as geographic region the reader is from can help us understand and characterize the needs and motivations of Wikipedia readers better. As some of you may already be guessing: there are some big questions ahead of us. For example, are there disparities in access to content depending on the readers' age or gender? Does the trajectory of readers differ depending on their demographics? We'd like to start addressing questions along these lines and better understand the needs and motivations of sub-populations within a country or language community. To do the above, we will rerun the study and this time we will include some demographics questions as part of the study. * How can your language community participate in the upcoming study of reader demographics? As always, research on this front is not possible without a very close collaboration between the language communities who will participate in this study and the researchers. If you want your language to be included in this round of the study, please sign up at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Read… on or before 2019-02-15 . Please note that the priority will be given to the 14 languages that participated in the previous round and that we will do our best to include new languages. Also note that we may not be able to run the study in all the languages that sign up: the traffic to the language edition, the diversity that the inclusion of the language can bring to the language pool, our capacity to run the analysis in the language, the availability of the point of contact from the language for translations will all play a role in the final list of languages that we can include in the study. This being said, please don't shy away from listing your language there if you're interested. :) Best, Leila, on behalf of the researchers (Isaac Johnson, Florian Lemmerich, Diego Saez, Markus Strohmaier, Bob West, and myself) [1] http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2019/ [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#December_2018 [3] ar, bn, de, en, es, he, hi, hu, ja, nl, ro, ru, uk, zh [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Be… [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Be… [6] The needs and motivations themselves don't change, but the distribution over possible options can change, as well as the reader characteristics that can describe them. [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Be… On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 5:43 PM Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Update time. > > Thank you all for your patience and support as we went through the > different stages of the analysis for this study. We have now concluded > the study based on the survey of the 14 Wikipedia languages [1]. Here > is what will happen next: > > * We are doing some relatively major documentation at > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Be… > . The goal is to have that page and the sub-pages in a way that can be > consumed more easily by audiences beyond researchers. I expect the > pages to come to life almost completely on or before 2018-09-14. We > will need the first couple of weeks of October for data and code > documentation to make sure you have all the data you need for your > languages to dig deeper if you choose to. By the end of October, > please expect all documentation to be completed. > > * We are happy to try to give presentations about this research to > your language community if there is interest on your end and we can > make it work on our end. The priority will be given to languages that > already participated in the study. If you want to sign up for one, > please go to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Be… > > * Our November Research Showcase [2] will most likely be on this > topic, so if you want to have a general overview of the results, keep > an eye on that. > > * We have submitted a research paper to a peer-reviewed conference > based on this work. There is an anonymization process for the reviews > and in order to not break that we will wait until the results are out > (towards the end of October) and only then put the full paper on > arxiv, under CC BY-SA 4.0 or a more permissive license. > > * We are discussing with our collaborators to potentially set up a > challenge for researchers to work with a subset of the data > (anonymized/aggregated/...) to answer an interesting research > questions. If you want to brainstorm with us about this, please drop a > line at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Read… > > * Do you have an idea about how to more effectively disseminate this > knowledge? please call it out. There is quite a bit of knowledge to > share and we're honestly not 100% sure what the best way to do it is > across a global movement. As a result, we're offering a mix of > documentation, pinging points of contacts in each language so they're > aware of them, general presentations, language specific presentations, > as well as data documentation for you to be able to dig on your own > deeper. > > Best, > Leila, on behalf of the researchers (Florian Lemmerich, Diego Saez, > Bob West, and myself) > > [1] ar, bn, de, en, es, he, hi, hu, ja, nl, ro, ru, uk, zh > [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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