Starting tomorrow (February 26), we will be broadcasting the monthly showcase of the Wikimedia Research and Data team.
The showcase is an opportunity to present and discuss recent work researchers at the Foundation have been conducting. The showcase will start at 11.30 Pacific Time and we will post a link to the stream a few minutes before it starts. You can also join the conversation on the #wikimedia-office IRC channel on freenode (we’ll be sticking around after the end of the showcase to answer any question).
This month, we’ll be talking about Wikipedia mobile readers and article creation trends:
Oliver Keyes Mobile session times A prerequisite to many pieces of interesting reader research is being able to accurately identify the length of users' 'sessions'. I will explain one potential way of doing it, how I’ve applied it to mobile readers, and what research this opens up. (20 mins) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Mobile_sessions
Aaron Halfaker Wikipedia article creation research I'll present research examining trends in newcomer article creation across 10 languages with a focus on English and German Wikipedias. I'll show that, in wikis where anonymous users can create articles, their articles are less likely to be deleted than articles created by newly registered editors. I’ll also show the results of an in-depth analysis of Articles for Creation (AfC) which suggest that while AfC’s process seems to result in the publication of high quality articles, it also dramatically reduces the rate at which good new articles are published. (30 mins) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation
Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow!
Dario
Dario,
Are the streams recorded?
Sounds interesting! -Jodi
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:06 AM, Dario Taraborelli < dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Starting tomorrow (February 26), we will be broadcasting the monthly showcase http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikiResearchShowcase of the Wikimedia Research and Data team.
The showcase is an opportunity to present and discuss recent work researchers at the Foundation have been conducting. The showcase will start at 11.30 Pacific Time and we will post a link to the stream a few minutes before it starts. You can also join the conversation on the #wikimedia-office IRC channel on freenode (we'll be sticking around after the end of the showcase to answer any question).
This month, we'll be talking about Wikipedia mobile readers and article creation trends:
Oliver Keyes *Mobile session times * A prerequisite to many pieces of interesting reader research is being able to accurately identify the length of users' 'sessions'. I will explain one potential way of doing it, how I've applied it to mobile readers, and what research this opens up. (20 mins) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Mobile_sessions
Aaron Halfaker *Wikipedia article creation research* I'll present research examining trends in newcomer article creation across 10 languages with a focus on English and German Wikipedias. I'll show that, in wikis where anonymous users can create articles, their articles are less likely to be deleted than articles created by newly registered editors. I'll also show the results of an in-depth analysis of Articles for Creation (AfC) which suggest that while AfC's process seems to result in the publication of high quality articles, it also dramatically reduces the rate at which good new articles are published. (30 mins) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation
Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow!
Dario
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streaming will start in 2 minutes at: http://youtu.be/arO9YzcTWGE
On Feb 25, 2014, at 6:06 PM, Dario Taraborelli dario@wikimedia.org wrote:
Starting tomorrow (February 26), we will be broadcasting the monthly showcase of the Wikimedia Research and Data team.
The showcase is an opportunity to present and discuss recent work researchers at the Foundation have been conducting. The showcase will start at 11.30 Pacific Time and we will post a link to the stream a few minutes before it starts. You can also join the conversation on the #wikimedia-office IRC channel on freenode (we’ll be sticking around after the end of the showcase to answer any question).
This month, we’ll be talking about Wikipedia mobile readers and article creation trends:
Oliver Keyes Mobile session times A prerequisite to many pieces of interesting reader research is being able to accurately identify the length of users' 'sessions'. I will explain one potential way of doing it, how I’ve applied it to mobile readers, and what research this opens up. (20 mins) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Mobile_sessions
Aaron Halfaker Wikipedia article creation research I'll present research examining trends in newcomer article creation across 10 languages with a focus on English and German Wikipedias. I'll show that, in wikis where anonymous users can create articles, their articles are less likely to be deleted than articles created by newly registered editors. I’ll also show the results of an in-depth analysis of Articles for Creation (AfC) which suggest that while AfC’s process seems to result in the publication of high quality articles, it also dramatically reduces the rate at which good new articles are published. (30 mins) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation
Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow!
Dario
Thank you for these showcases, they are great. I'm a fan of using session data as a baseline metric; kudos to Oliver for this work.
Is there a catalog of all data that could possibly be available (for instance, the mw.session cookie), along with where it is logged, for how long, and where in various toolchains it gets stripped out?
Related lists could be useful for planning: * Limitations our privacy policies place on data gathering (handy when reviewing those policies) * Studies that are easy and hard given the types of data we gather * Wishlists (from external researchers, and from internal staff) of data-sets that would be useful but aren't currently available. Along with a sense of priority, complexity, cost.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Dario Taraborelli dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org wrote:
Starting tomorrow (February 26), we will be broadcasting the monthly showcase of the Wikimedia Research and Data team.
The showcase is an opportunity to present and discuss recent work researchers at the Foundation have been conducting. The showcase will start at 11.30 Pacific Time and we will post a link to the stream a few minutes before it starts. You can also join the conversation on the #wikimedia-office IRC channel on freenode (we'll be sticking around after the end of the showcase to answer any question).
This month, we'll be talking about Wikipedia mobile readers and article creation trends:
Oliver Keyes Mobile session times A prerequisite to many pieces of interesting reader research is being able to accurately identify the length of users' 'sessions'. I will explain one potential way of doing it, how I've applied it to mobile readers, and what research this opens up. (20 mins) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Mobile_sessions
Aaron Halfaker Wikipedia article creation research I'll present research examining trends in newcomer article creation across 10 languages with a focus on English and German Wikipedias. I'll show that, in wikis where anonymous users can create articles, their articles are less likely to be deleted than articles created by newly registered editors. I'll also show the results of an in-depth analysis of Articles for Creation (AfC) which suggest that while AfC's process seems to result in the publication of high quality articles, it also dramatically reduces the rate at which good new articles are published. (30 mins) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation
Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow!
Dario
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Yay! Very cool to see this :)
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On 26 February 2014 23:43, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you for these showcases, they are great. I'm a fan of using session data as a baseline metric; kudos to Oliver for this work.
Is there a catalog of all data that could possibly be available (for instance, the mw.session cookie), along with where it is logged, for how long, and where in various toolchains it gets stripped out?
Related lists could be useful for planning:
- Limitations our privacy policies place on data gathering (handy when
reviewing those policies)
- Studies that are easy and hard given the types of data we gather
- Wishlists (from external researchers, and from internal staff) of
data-sets that would be useful but aren't currently available. Along with a sense of priority, complexity, cost.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Dario Taraborelli dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org wrote:
Starting tomorrow (February 26), we will be broadcasting the monthly showcase of the Wikimedia Research and Data team.
The showcase is an opportunity to present and discuss recent work researchers at the Foundation have been conducting. The showcase will
start
at 11.30 Pacific Time and we will post a link to the stream a few minutes before it starts. You can also join the conversation on the #wikimedia-office IRC channel on freenode (we'll be sticking around after the end of the showcase to answer any question).
This month, we'll be talking about Wikipedia mobile readers and article creation trends:
Oliver Keyes Mobile session times A prerequisite to many pieces of interesting reader research is being
able
to accurately identify the length of users' 'sessions'. I will explain
one
potential way of doing it, how I've applied it to mobile readers, and
what
research this opens up. (20 mins) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Mobile_sessions
Aaron Halfaker Wikipedia article creation research I'll present research examining trends in newcomer article creation
across
10 languages with a focus on English and German Wikipedias. I'll show that, in wikis where anonymous users can create articles, their articles
are
less likely to be deleted than articles created by newly registered
editors.
I'll also show the results of an in-depth analysis of Articles for
Creation
(AfC) which suggest that while AfC's process seems to result in the publication of high quality articles, it also dramatically reduces the
rate
at which good new articles are published. (30 mins) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation
Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow!
Dario
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a catalog of all data that could possibly be available (for instance, the mw.session cookie), along with where it is logged, for how long, and where in various toolchains it gets stripped out?
Another example someone pointed out today: our search logs. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/19/what-are-readers-looking-for-wikipedia...
Is there a sense of how many groups wanted this data? Was it possible to publish those logs without field #4, or was that simply not interesting? &c.
Extra thanks for having the showcases permanently up online!
SJ
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