==> Thanks for that great piece of work. Are there also data dumps for a random sample (e.g. N = 1000) of wikis available?
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Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 12:56:25 +0900
From: Piotr Konieczny <piokon@post.pl>
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Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Any studies on vandalism levels at Wikia?
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I wanted to cite a statistic on whether vandalism at Wikia is higher or
lower than on Wikipedia, but couldn't find anything. Is anyone familiar
with research that I may want to check out? I am drawing almost nothing
for studies of Wikia, outside the recent paper by Aaron Shaw and
Benjamin Mako Hill (CC-ed), which did not however focus on vandalism.
Wikia (the largest wiki farm?) appears to be drastically under-researched...
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Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 08:40:16 +0200
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Piotr Konieczny, 29/05/2014 05:56:
> Wikia (the largest wiki farm?) appears to be drastically
> under-researched...
Part of the reason may be that they don't offer regular data dumps.
But WikiTeam has remedied and recovered dumps for most of their top 14k
wikis (as well as all images):
https://archive.org/details/wikia_dump_20140125https://archive.org/search.php?query=wikia_dumpIt's possible to release updates if needed, just tell us with some
advance because it takes weeks or months due to aggressive throttling
and blocking policies.
Nemo
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Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 19:22:45 +0900
From: Piotr Konieczny <piokon@post.pl>
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Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Any studies on vandalism levels at
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That's intriguing, any idea why Wikia is being so unfriendly with that?
Are they doing the usual corporation "our data is ours/secrecy is
good/we don't need your research as it may reveal things we don't want
the world/competitors to know about" shtick?
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http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKoniecznyhttp://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PiotrusOn 5/29/2014 15:40, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
> Piotr Konieczny, 29/05/2014 05:56:
>> Wikia (the largest wiki farm?) appears to be drastically
>> under-researched...
>
> Part of the reason may be that they don't offer regular data dumps.
> But WikiTeam has remedied and recovered dumps for most of their top
> 14k wikis (as well as all images):
>
https://archive.org/details/wikia_dump_20140125>
https://archive.org/search.php?query=wikia_dump>
> It's possible to release updates if needed, just tell us with some
> advance because it takes weeks or months due to aggressive throttling
> and blocking policies.
>
> Nemo
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Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 12:55:48 +0200
From: "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <nemowiki@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Any studies on vandalism levels at
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Piotr Konieczny, 29/05/2014 12:22:
> That's intriguing, any idea why Wikia is being so unfriendly with that?
> Are they doing the usual corporation "our data is ours/secrecy is
> good/we don't need your research as it may reveal things we don't want
> the world/competitors to know about" shtick?
Nothing like that: they consistently reply that dumps are wonderful and
in their opinion they do all they should.
http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Wikia#DownloadWhen you explain them that it's not enough, they don't disagree, but
passive-aggresively refer to someone else in the chain of command (I
think I covered it all by now). Their current excuse is that they're not
sure they have enough disk space on
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/*Nemo
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