Cross-posting to Research-l. Thank you Leila.

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---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Leila Zia leila@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 12:43 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Hi all,

Update time.

Thank you all for your patience and support as we went through the different stages of the analysis for this study. We have now concluded the study based on the survey of the 14 Wikipedia languages [1]. Here is what will happen next:

* We are doing some relatively major documentation at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Beh... . The goal is to have that page and the sub-pages in a way that can be consumed more easily by audiences beyond researchers. I expect the pages to come to life almost completely on or before 2018-09-14. We will need the first couple of weeks of October for data and code documentation to make sure you have all the data you need for your languages to dig deeper if you choose to. By the end of October, please expect all documentation to be completed.

* We are happy to try to give presentations about this research to your language community if there is interest on your end and we can make it work on our end. The priority will be given to languages that already participated in the study. If you want to sign up for one, please go to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Beh...

* Our November Research Showcase [2] will most likely be on this topic, so if you want to have a general overview of the results, keep an eye on that.

* We have submitted a research paper to a peer-reviewed conference based on this work. There is an anonymization process for the reviews and in order to not break that we will wait until the results are out (towards the end of October) and only then put the full paper on arxiv, under CC BY-SA 4.0 or a more permissive license.

* We are discussing with our collaborators to potentially set up a challenge for researchers to work with a subset of the data (anonymized/aggregated/...) to answer an interesting research questions. If you want to brainstorm with us about this, please drop a line at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reade...

* Do you have an idea about how to more effectively disseminate this knowledge? please call it out. There is quite a bit of knowledge to share and we're honestly not 100% sure what the best way to do it is across a global movement. As a result, we're offering a mix of documentation, pinging points of contacts in each language so they're aware of them, general presentations, language specific presentations, as well as data documentation for you to be able to dig on your own deeper.

Best, Leila, on behalf of the researchers (Florian Lemmerich, Diego Saez, Bob West, and myself)

[1] ar, bn, de, en, es, he, hi, hu, ja, nl, ro, ru, uk, zh [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase

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