We will be in IRC channel #wikimedia-research for taking your questions. :-)
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Dario Taraborelli <
dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I am thrilled to announce our speaker lineup for this
month’s research
showcase
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Research_and_Data/Showcase#February_2015>.
Our own *Haitham Shammaa* will present results from the Global South
survey. We also invited Stamen’s *Alan McConchie*, an OpenStreetMap
expert, to talk about the challenges the OSM community is facing with
external data imports.
The showcase will be recorded and publicly streamed at 11.30 PT on *Wednesday,
February 18 *(livestream link will follow). We’ll hold a discussion and
take questions from remote participants via the Wikimedia Research IRC
channel (#wikimedia-research
<http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-research> on freenode).
Looking forward to seeing you there.
Dario
*Global South User Survey 2014*By *Haitham Shammaa
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:HaithamS_(WMF)>*Users' trends in
the Global South have significantly changed over the past two years, and
given the increase in interest in Global South communities and their
activities, we wanted this survey to focus on understanding the statistics
and needs of our users (both readers, and editors) in the regions listed in
the WMF's New Global South Strategy
<https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:WMF%27s_New_Global_South_Strategy.pdf>.
This survey aims to provide a better understanding of the specific needs of
local user communities in the Global South, as well as provide data that
supports product and program development decision making process.
*Ingesting Open Geodata: Observations from OpenStreetMap*By *Alan
McConchie* <http://stamen.com/studio/alan>As Wikidata grapples with the
challenges of ingesting external data sources such as Freebase, what
lessons can we learn from other open knowledge projects that have had
similar experiences? OpenStreetMap, often called "The Wikipedia of Maps",
is a crowdsourced geospatial data project covering the entire world. Since
the earliest years of the project, OSM has combined user contributions with
existing data imported from external sources. Within the OSM community,
these imports have been controversial; some core OSM contributors complain
that imported data is lower quality than user-contributed data, or that it
discourages the growth of local mapping communities. In this talk, I'll
review the history of data imports in OSM, and describe how OSM's
best-practices have evolved over time in response to these critiques.
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