Dario,
Are the streams recorded?
Sounds interesting!
-Jodi
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:06 AM, Dario Taraborelli <
dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Starting tomorrow (February 26), we will be
broadcasting the monthly
showcase <http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikiResearchShowcase> of the
Wikimedia Research and Data team.
The showcase is an opportunity to present and discuss recent work
researchers at the Foundation have been conducting. The showcase will start
at 11.30 Pacific Time and we will post a link to the stream a few minutes
before it starts. You can also join the conversation on the
#wikimedia-office IRC channel on freenode (we'll be sticking around after
the end of the showcase to answer any question).
This month, we'll be talking about Wikipedia mobile readers and article
creation trends:
Oliver Keyes
*Mobile session times *
A prerequisite to many pieces of interesting reader research is being able
to accurately identify the length of users' 'sessions'. I will explain one
potential way of doing it, how I've applied it to mobile readers, and what
research this opens up. (20 mins)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Mobile_sessions
Aaron Halfaker
*Wikipedia article creation research*
I'll present research examining trends in newcomer article creation across
10 languages with a focus on English and German Wikipedias. I'll show
that, in wikis where anonymous users can create articles, their articles
are less likely to be deleted than articles created by newly registered
editors. I'll also show the results of an in-depth analysis of Articles
for Creation (AfC) which suggest that while AfC's process seems to result
in the publication of high quality articles, it also dramatically reduces
the rate at which good new articles are published. (30 mins)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation
Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow!
Dario
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