[Wiki-research-l] Re: [data] Announcement - Data release

Hi everyone, Summary: We have released two COVID-19 related data-sets. If you just need the information about the datasets, please read the section titled "Data release details" below. The rest of this email provides background as well as thanks and credits information. ==Background== On March 26, 2020, only a few months into the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of Wikimedia volunteer researchers and editors as well as a subset of the Wikimedia Foundation staff interested in the community, data and research aspect of our work came together to brainstorm COVID-19 related data and research. One of the themes that emerged from that conversation was that the Wikimedia Foundation considers releasing more granular COVID-19 related data. ==Data release details== Today we’re happy to share with you that we have publicly released two Wikipedia readership COVID-19 related data-sets. The first dataset is COVID-19 article page views by country, the second dataset is one hop navigation where one of the two pages are COVID-19 related. You can find both data-sets at https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/COVID-19_Pandemic_Wikipedia_Readershi… ==Thanks and credits== This release would not have been possible without contributions from the following people: Joseph Allemandou (Data Engineering), Marcel Ruiz Forns (Data Engineering), Fabian Kaelin (Research), Isaac Johnson (Research), Nuria Ruiz (Data Engineering), Leila Zia (Research). We also want to thank those who participated in the original brainstorming meeting and offered us their expertise and time [1]. [1] In alphabetical order: Dan Andreescu, Data Engineering, Wikimedia Foundation Asaf Bartov, Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities, Wikimedia Foundation Carlos Castillo, Distinguished Research Professor, UPF (User:ChaTo) Ciro Cattuto, Professor, University of Torino & Research co-Director, ISI Foundation Meeyoung Cha, Associate Professor, KAIST Djellel Difallah, NYU Abu Dhabi (then: Research Scientist, Wikimedia Foundation) Martin Gerlach, Research Scientist, Wikimedia Foundation James Heilman (Doc James), English Wikipedia medical editor Benjamin Mako Hill, Assistant Professor, University of Washington, (User:Benjamin Mako Hill) David Lazer, Professor, Northeastern University J. Nathan Matias, Assistant Professor, Cornell Communication Jason Moore, English Wikipedia, WikiProject COVID-19, (User:Another Believer) Jonathan Morgan, Senior Design Researcher at CrowdStrike (then: Senior Design Researcher, Wikimedia Foundation) Margeigh Novotny, Sr. Dir Product Design & Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation Sam Patton, Sr. Online Fundraising Manager, Wikimedia Foundation Miriam Redi, Senior Research Scientist, Wikimedia Foundation Diego Sáez-Trumper, Senior Research Scientist, Wikimedia Foundation Jodi Schneider, Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences, UIUC, (User:Jodi.a.schneider) Joseph Seddon, Senior Community Relations Specialist, (User:Seddon) Markus Strohmaier, Professor, RWTH Aachen University and Sci. Coordinator, GESIS Bob West, Assistant Professor, EPFL Leila Zia, Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation Best, Leila -- Leila Zia Head of Research Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wiki-research-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org