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Empowering Researchers
by Gabriele - Qeios 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

Dear list members, I’m Gabriele Marinello, co-founder along with Giorgio Bedogni and Alberto Bedogni of Qeios, a new Open Access integrated system, created by researchers, for researchers. Qeios is the first tool designed to improve the quality and comparability/reproducibility of the research by acting at the production level. A new piece of knowledge, the Definition, and the rating system built on it allow researchers to produce and publish research of increased quality and comparability/reproducibility. If you are curious, you can find a video and more information here: https://www.qeios.com/about If then you are interested, you can sign up using an invitation link, here is Giorgio’s: https://www.qeios.com/invitation-to-join/researcher/314 If you have any questions/doubts or feedback, feel free to drop me an email at gm(a)qeios.com or call me at +39 380 8912791. Many thanks and all the best, Gabriele — Gabriele Marinello Co-founder, Qeios Ltd 34, Old Barrack Yard, SW1X 7NP, London, UKUK +44 (0) 7426 853828IT +39 380 8912791gm(a)qeios.comwww.qeios.com

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Data on arbitration, mediation, voting
by Ofer Arazy 07 Dec '18

07 Dec '18

Hi everyone, As part of my research on governance mechanisms in Wikipedia, I'm looking for data regarding mediation, arbitration, and polls. Are records of mediation and arbitration committees (dates, the article, decisions) and on voting readily available? How could I gain access to this data? I'm particularly interested on data regarding the Gdansk article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gda%C5%84sk), but would be happy to retrieve data for other articles as well. Thanks in advance, Ofer Arazy

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Research around the use of MassMessages extension
by Florence Devouard 06 Dec '18

06 Dec '18

Hello everyone, I was interested to know whether there has been any research done around the use of the Mass Message mediawiki extension and in particular about impact of using it. By extension, I am interested in any research that might be related to the impact of posting a "template" message (as opposed to an individual targetted) on a user talk page. I know the SignPost did a poll in 2017 to evaluate the interest of switching to the Newsletter extension system. And I remember reading about impact of notifications. But are there studies related to the measure of impact in terms of engagement to mass posting on user talk page ? Thanks for any insight you could provide Florence

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Fwd: [Wikidata] Wikidata Data Quality Workshop
by Pine W 05 Dec '18

05 Dec '18

Forwarding to Research-l in case this is of interest to others. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Mariam Farda Sarbas <mariam(a)zedat.fu-berlin.de> Date: Tue, Dec 4, 2018, 1:30 PM Subject: [Wikidata] Wikidata Data Quality Workshop To: <Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello, We are organizing a workshop on Data Quality Management in Wikidata (http://wikidata-quality-workshop.org) on January 18th, 2019 in Berlin (Office of Wikimedia Deutschland). The workshop will give scientific researchers and the Wikidata community members the opportunity to discuss and present preliminary findings, ideas, opinions, and demos. We have an open call for abstracts (submission deadline December 6, 2018), and will give the authors of accepted abstracts the opportunity to submit a full paper (by March 2019). Best, The workshop team _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata -- Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] Page views of male/female biographies?
by Tilman Bayer 04 Dec '18

04 Dec '18

Hi Micru, in general, there may be better venues to ask this kind of question, e.g. the Wiki-research-l and Gendergap mailing lists (both CCed). But for a partial answer, the paper by Marit Hinnosaar reviewed here looks at these stats (if not their long-term trend): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2015/December#Does_adve… E.g. "On a typical (median) day in September 2014, no one read 26 percent of the biographies of men versus only 16 percent of the biographies of women." On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 3:35 AM David Cuenca Tudela <dacuetu(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Are there any statistics that track the evolution of page views of > male/female biographies in the different Wikipedias? > > Regards, > Micru > _______________________________________________ > 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> -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Research-Internal] Research proposal - not sure if it fits the project grant requirements
by Leila Zia 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

moving research-internal to Bcc, + wiki-research-l which is the better place for this kind of discussio Hi Rebecca, If you want to respond to this email, please make sure you're subscribed to https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l , and please find my comments below. On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 6:54 AM Rebecca Petras <rebecca(a)translatorswithoutborders.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > Over the past five years, we have worked with various Wikimedia communities focused on simplified health articles being translated into non-English Wikipedia sites. The biggest area where we have focused is east Africa, especially for Swahili. We would like to expand this work, as it is our mission to increase the ability to get critical information openly in marginalized languages. However, we really feel we need to ask two main questions: > > When translating medical articles from English to Swahili, is the translation of higher quality if it is simplified first? Can you expand what you mean? I am not sure if I understand your question. > Can a health-specific machine translation engine, used by community who are translating articles, increase the ability to translate medical articles while maintaining quality? The quality of many of the standard machine translation engines will rely on the source and destination languages you choose. While some language pairs give high quality results, some may not. Which machine translation tool do you have in mind? And for what language pair? Also, do you use Content Translation? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation > I am would like to know your thoughts on whether a research project addressing one or both of those questions would be acceptable – they are key questions for our community. Any research project that can address the needs of your community can be great. :) If you expand some more what you want to use the results of this line of research for, we can try to help you with figuring out whether the answer to some of your questions is already in the literature, and through that save some of your time. :) Best, Leila > > > Thanks very much, > > Rebecca > > Rebecca Petras > Deputy Director > Translators without Borders

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Scribe: A project to support under-resourced Wikipedia editors
by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee 26 Nov '18

26 Nov '18

Hello everyone, One of the main problems of under-resourced Wikipedias is the lack of content in their languages. We want to tackle this problem by supporting editors in creating more content in their languages easily. We are working on a tool to support editors in creating new articles. The editing tool (Scribe) will display a structure of the new article and references (with their most important points) for each section, supported by the information on Wikidata. The project is based on recent research in document planning, reference discovery and collection, and document summarization. One of the emphasizes of our project is to keep the community involved in every step of the development to ensure that we are serving their needs. We are currently applying for a Wikimedia project grant and would like to hear your feedback: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Scribe:_Supporting_Under-res… Looking forward to hearing from you! Best, Lucie -- Lucie-Aimée Kaffee Web and Internet Science Group School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton

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Unscheduled reboot of stat1007
by Luca Toscano 22 Nov '18

22 Nov '18

Hi everybody, as FYI today I rebooted stat1007 due to unexpected maintenance (an error from my side) while investigating a Spark2 issue (that is now fixed). Apologies if this has impacted your work! Luca

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Upcoming Research Newsletter: New Papers Open For Review
by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai 20 Nov '18

20 Nov '18

Hi everyone, We’re preparing for the November 2018 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201811 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication date is on December 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: • Bot Detection in Wikidata Using Behavioral and Other Informal Cues • Integrating Wikipedia Articles and Images into an Information Resource for Radiology Patients • It Was Fun, but Did It Last?: The Dynamic Interplay Between Fun Motives and Contributors' Activity in Peer Production • Operationalizing Conflict and Cooperation between Automated Software Agents in Wikipedia: A Replication and Expansion of 'Even Good Bots Fight' • Reciprocity and Donation: How Article Topic, Quality and Dwell Time Predict Banner Donation on Wikipedia • Toward an abstract Wikipedia • With Few Eyes, All Hoaxes Are Deep Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter

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Upcoming move of users from stat1005 to stat1007
by Luca Toscano 20 Nov '18

20 Nov '18

Hi everybody, as part of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205846 we are going to ask to all the stat1005's users to move to stat1007 during the next two weeks. The deadline is November 14th, by which time ssh access to stat1005 will be removed. Background: on stat1005 we have a GPU (more details in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148843) that has been sitting there for almost two years, and it would be great to try to make it work during the next months. This effort will require a lot of tests/reboots/etc.. that can of course impact ongoing work of all of you, so we prefer to move everybody to another identical machine beforehand. Please reach out to me or to the analytics team in T205846 or IRC (#wikimedia-analytics on Freenode) if you have any questions/doubts/blocker/etc.., we are not going to enforce the deadline if anybody will raise concerns or blockers of course. It would be great to move everybody by Nov 14th but we surely don't want to disrupt any ongoing important work. I am going to update the Wikitech documentation about stat1005 and stat1007 as soon as possible, for the moment keep in mind that stat1007 will take over completely everything that stat1005 currently does. I have already copied over all the stat1005 directories to stat1007, and I'll periodically sync them during the following days. If you don't find anything important, please add a note in T205846. Thanks a lot and sorry for the trouble, Luca (on behalf of the Analytics team)

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