Hi everyone,
As part of my research on governance mechanisms in Wikipedia, I'm looking for data regarding mediation, arbitration, and polls. Are records of mediation and arbitration committees (dates, the article, decisions) and on voting readily available? How could I gain access to this data? I'm particularly interested on data regarding the Gdansk article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gda%C5%84sk), but would be happy to retrieve data for other articles as well.
Thanks in advance, Ofer Arazy
Hi Ofer,
Could you explain a bit more of the background what kind of questions you're trying to answer? I have been looking into voting on Wikipedia myself, and getting clean data is a challenge indeed.
Are you only interested in English or also in other communities? Do you refer with 'article' to the lemma around which a dispute was settled (in arbitration, it's often not a particular lemma) or rather the section of the rules that the ruling would refer to (quite common in Dutch, not sure if it is in other languages).
As for polls, outside the 2010 dataset on admin elections in English Wikipedia, I have been unable to find any readily available data myself. Most likely, you'd have to collect it from various pages and interpret the data. It depends on the type of polls you're interested in, how straight forward that is. (If I overlooked something, I would be happy to be corrected!)
Best,
Lodewijk Gelauff
On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 11:45 PM Ofer Arazy ofer.arazy@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
As part of my research on governance mechanisms in Wikipedia, I'm looking for data regarding mediation, arbitration, and polls. Are records of mediation and arbitration committees (dates, the article, decisions) and on voting readily available? How could I gain access to this data? I'm particularly interested on data regarding the Gdansk article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gda%C5%84sk), but would be happy to retrieve data for other articles as well.
Thanks in advance, Ofer Arazy _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
Thanks, Lodewijk
I'm interested in the English Wikipedia. I'm studying he extent to which various governance mechanisms shape an article's evolutionary trajectory (not going into the details of how that trajectory is recorded and represented). The unit of analysis is a particular article. My focus is on the application of mechanisms that intended to alleviate conflicts. So for the particular article mentioned - Gdansk - I would look at when conflicts within this article have required mediation, arbitration or polls. I'm hoping this clarifies things.
Ofer
On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 7:22 PM L.Gelauff lgelauff@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Ofer,
Could you explain a bit more of the background what kind of questions you're trying to answer? I have been looking into voting on Wikipedia myself, and getting clean data is a challenge indeed.
Are you only interested in English or also in other communities? Do you refer with 'article' to the lemma around which a dispute was settled (in arbitration, it's often not a particular lemma) or rather the section of the rules that the ruling would refer to (quite common in Dutch, not sure if it is in other languages).
As for polls, outside the 2010 dataset on admin elections in English Wikipedia, I have been unable to find any readily available data myself. Most likely, you'd have to collect it from various pages and interpret the data. It depends on the type of polls you're interested in, how straight forward that is. (If I overlooked something, I would be happy to be corrected!)
Best,
Lodewijk Gelauff
On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 11:45 PM Ofer Arazy ofer.arazy@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
As part of my research on governance mechanisms in Wikipedia, I'm looking for data regarding mediation, arbitration, and polls. Are records of mediation and arbitration committees (dates, the article, decisions) and on voting readily available? How could I gain access to this data? I'm particularly interested on data regarding the Gdansk article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gda%C5%84sk), but would be happy to
retrieve
data for other articles as well.
Thanks in advance, Ofer Arazy _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
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Hello Ofer Arazy,
I remember your paper with M. Lisa Yeo which gave me important insight about wikis in corporations.
If I understand you well, you are like a historian looking for primary sources of institutions that deal with certain events, and the problem is that some of those sources are not public?
With regard to my experience in the arbitration committee of German Wikipedia: that committee has an external, non public wiki for discussing cases in private. I don't know about any rules concerning a later publication, comparable to the 30 years limit of restricted government papers. It might be possible to find out who was on the arbitration committee of English Wikipedia at that time, contact them and ask them to publish what can be published, or at least give you access under certain conditions.
In general, I am now busy e.g. with collaboration mechanisms in wikis and with wikis in general. If you are interested in an exchange about these topics, you may contact me for talking about.
Kind regards Ziko van Dijk user: Ziko
Am Fr., 7. Dez. 2018 um 05:53 Uhr schrieb Ofer Arazy ofer.arazy@gmail.com:
Thanks, Lodewijk
I'm interested in the English Wikipedia. I'm studying he extent to which various governance mechanisms shape an article's evolutionary trajectory (not going into the details of how that trajectory is recorded and represented). The unit of analysis is a particular article. My focus is on the application of mechanisms that intended to alleviate conflicts. So for the particular article mentioned - Gdansk - I would look at when conflicts within this article have required mediation, arbitration or polls. I'm hoping this clarifies things.
Ofer
On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 7:22 PM L.Gelauff lgelauff@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Ofer,
Could you explain a bit more of the background what kind of questions you're trying to answer? I have been looking into voting on Wikipedia myself, and getting clean data is a challenge indeed.
Are you only interested in English or also in other communities? Do you refer with 'article' to the lemma around which a dispute was settled (in arbitration, it's often not a particular lemma) or rather the section of the rules that the ruling would refer to (quite common in Dutch, not sure if it is in other languages).
As for polls, outside the 2010 dataset on admin elections in English Wikipedia, I have been unable to find any readily available data myself. Most likely, you'd have to collect it from various pages and interpret
the
data. It depends on the type of polls you're interested in, how straight forward that is. (If I overlooked something, I would be happy to be corrected!)
Best,
Lodewijk Gelauff
On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 11:45 PM Ofer Arazy ofer.arazy@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
As part of my research on governance mechanisms in Wikipedia, I'm
looking
for data regarding mediation, arbitration, and polls. Are records of mediation and arbitration committees (dates, the
article,
decisions) and on voting readily available? How could I gain access to this data? I'm particularly interested on data regarding the Gdansk article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gda%C5%84sk), but would be happy to
retrieve
data for other articles as well.
Thanks in advance, Ofer Arazy _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
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