Thanks Aaron - looks like an exciting quarter! Congrats on the ORES betas.
-Toby
On Wednesday, April 6, 2016, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hey folks!
I'm happy to announce that the Wikimedia Research team's goals
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Goals#April_-_June_2016_.28Q4.29>
for the next quarter (April - July 2016) are up on the wiki.
The Research and Data
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research#Research_and_Data>
team will deploy the ORES extension
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ORES> that makes revision
scoring as a service <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/R:Revscoring> available
within the wiki to Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia as a beta feature. We're
also digging into studies of discussion modeling. We'll be releasing
datasets of on-wiki discussions and starting our own modeling work to try
to detect harassment & personal attacks. We'll be hosting three workshops:
WikiCite <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite> in Berlin and the Wiki
Workshop 2016 <http://snap.stanford.edu/wikiworkshop2016/> at WWW and
ICWSM. We'll be extending our work surveying readers
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/R:Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour/S3-English_Large_Scale>
last quarter by digging into data analysis.
The Design Research
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research#Design_Research> team
will support the use of pragmatic personas
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Personas_for_product_development> in
product development and analyze data on on Reader, New Editor and New
Reader personas. We'll also continue supporting ongoing user-facing
projects in Editing, Reading, Search and Community Engagement. We'll
perform a new set of deep-dive interviews in Nigeria to extend the
deep-dive interviews recently completed for Mexico. We'll deploy surveys
to University of Washington students
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Publicly_available_online_learning_resource_survey>
and complete the analysis of results. We'll also create a project plan for
benchmarking UX characteristics of Wikimedia software and to create a
stable testing environment to support our user studies of software changes.
We're constantly looking for contributors and as usual we welcome feedback
on these projects via the corresponding talk pages on Meta. You can contact
us for any question on IRC via the #wikimedia-
<http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-research>research
<http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-research> channel and
follow @WikiResearch <https://twitter.com/WikiResearch> on Twitter for
the latest Wikipedia and Wikimedia research updates hot off the press.
-Aaron (on behalf of the team)