Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

-- *Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland* Mariaplaats 3 - 3511 LH Utrecht Kamer van Koophandel 17189036 http://www.wikimedia.nl/ 2018-03-15 17:45 GMT+01:00 Leila Zia leila@wikimedia.org: > Hi all, > > We are ready to share the result of the first part of the study for > the 14 languages that participated in the survey with you. To recap: > the goal of the first part of the study was to compute the prevalence > of the use-cases of Wikipedia across the 14 languages, basically, > generating plots similar to Figure 2 in our earlier research [0] for > these languages. What took most of our time was the debiasing step we > had to take for every language and triple-checking the results to make > sure we didn't make a mistake. You can read more about this first part > at the blog post we just published [1] and on meta [2]. > > What's left? A lot! :) We took one big step to make sense of the data, > but there is a lot left. We have now entered the second phase of the > study during which we will try to do a deeper analysis to characterize > readers by survey response type across as many languages as we can. > The higher the number of survey responses from a language, the higher > the chances for us to be able to get good results in this phase. We > expect to be able to do this deeper analysis in around 5 languages, > maybe more. We will let you know once we know more about this part. > > This is a good opportunity for me to thank many of you who have made > this research possible. Many colleagues at Wikimedia Foundation > stepped up and helped us in every step of the way, thanks to all of > you. I specifically want to call out the work that the points of > contacts and volunteers put to help us run the survey in your > languages [3] and to our formal collaborators Bob West (EPFL, > User:Cervisiarius) and Florian Lemmerich (RWTH Aachen University, > User:Flemmerich) who have been working in this area of research, truly > tirelessly. Florian had a lot of sleepless nights to prepare these > results. > > If you have questions or comments, you know where to find us: IRC > channel #wikimedia-research on freenode (look for leila or lzia), the > discussion page where we document things, etc. Your role is key now. > Please look at the results in your languages, ponder on them, and tell > us if you see interesting patterns that we have missed and we should > consider digging deeper in and making sense of. And, please enjoy > using this data for your language. We stand behind these results [4]. > > Best, > Leila > > [0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.05379.pdf > [1] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/15/why-the-world-reads-wikipedia/ > [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_ > Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour/Robustness_across_languages > [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_ > Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour/Robustness_across_languages# > Participating_languages > [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_ > Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour/Robustness_across_languages#Results > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 12:28 AM, Amir E. Aharoni > amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: > > OK, I did it :) > > > > I don't write in the Russian Wikipedia as much as I do in Hebrew and > > English, but it should be OK. > > > > > > -- > > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > > ‪“We're living in pieces, > > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ > > > > 2017-06-21 9:57 GMT+03:00 Leila Zia leila@wikimedia.org: > > > >> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Amir E. Aharoni > >> amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: > >> > > >> > If I want this done for Hebrew and Russian, do I just reply to this > >> thread? > >> > >> > >> [Amir, you are aware of this but I'm hoping by saying it here we can > >> change the outcome.] > >> > >> At the moment, all text is translated to Russian but we don't have any > >> volunteer as a point of contact for Russian Wikipedia. The PoC is > >> needed to communicate the notifications from us to the ruwiki > >> community and also transfer anything we should know from that > >> community back to us. I have made having a PoC a (soft?) requirement > >> for running the survey in a language. If you are from ruwiki and you'd > >> like to be the PoC, please ping me immediately (I expect up to 3 hours > >> of your time to be spent in the next 2 months). > >> > >> If we don't find a PoC in the next 12 hours or so, we will need to > >> make a call whether to run in ruwiki or not. I'd love for us to run > >> the survey in ruwiki, especially as volunteers have already spent time > >> and care on the translations and there is little we (the broader > >> Wikimedia community) know about ruwiki. :) > >> > >> Here is the list of languages and their PoCs, if you're curious: > >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_ > >> Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour/Robustness_across_languages# > >> Participating_languages > >> > >> Best, > >> Leila > >> > >> > > >> > בתאריך 21 באפר׳ 2017 19:46,‏ "Leila Zia" leila@wikimedia.org כתב: > >> > > >> > > Hi all, > >> > > > >> > > ==Background== > >> > > In November 2016, I presented the result of a joint research that > >> > > helped us understand English Wikipedia readers better. (Presentation > >> > > at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIaMuWA84bY ). I talked about > how > >> > > we used English, Persian, and Spanish Wikipedia readers' inputs to > >> > > build a taxonomy of Wikipedia use-cases along several dimensions, > >> > > capturing users’ motivations to visit Wikipedia, the depth of > >> > > knowledge they are seeking, and their knowledge of the topic of > >> > > interest prior to visiting Wikipedia. I also talked about the > results > >> > > of the study we did to quantify the prevalence of these use-cases > via > >> > > a large-scale user survey conducted on English Wikipedia. In that > >> > > study, we also matched survey responses to the respondents’ digital > >> > > traces in Wikipedia’s server logs which enabled us in discovering > >> > > behavioral patterns associated with specific use-cases. You can read > >> > > the full study at https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05379 . > >> > > > >> > > ==What do we want to do now?== > >> > > There are quite a few directions this research can continue on, and > >> > > the most immediate one is to understand whether the results that we > >> > > observe (in English Wikipeida) is robust across languages/cultures. > >> > > For this, we are going to repeat the study, but this time in more > >> > > languages. Here are the languages on our list: Arabic, Dutch, > English, > >> > > Hindi, Japanese, Spanish (thanks to all the volunteers who have been > >> > > helping us translating all survey related documents to these > >> > > languages.:) > >> > > > >> > > ==What about your language?== > >> > > If your language is not one of the six languages above and you'd > like > >> > > to learn about the readers of Wikipedia in it (in the specific ways > >> > > described above), please get back to me by Monday, April 24, AoE. I > >> > > cannot guarantee that we can run the study in your language, > however, > >> > > I guarantee that we will give it a good try if you're interested. > The > >> > > decision to include more languages will depend on: our capacity to > do > >> > > the analysis, the speed at which your community can help us > translate > >> > > the material to the language, the traffic to that language, a couple > >> > > of sentences on how you'd think the result can help your community, > >> > > and your willingness to help us document the results for your > language > >> > > at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_ > >> > > Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour > >> > > (Quite some work will need to go to have readable/usable > >> > > documentations available and we are too small to be able to > guarantee > >> > > that on our own for many languages.) > >> > > > >> > > Best, > >> > > Leila > >> > > > >> > > -- > >> > > Leila Zia > >> > > Senior Research Scientist > >> > > Wikimedia Foundation > >> > > > >> > > _______________________________________________ > >> > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > >> > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > >> > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > >> > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/ > mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > >> > > mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject= unsubscribe> > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > >> wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > >> wiki/Wikimedia-l > >> > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > , > >> mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > >> wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > >> wiki/Wikimedia-l > >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > >> mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe >