I wish you a lot of joy in your retirement, Erik. We will miss you and all
of your work to help us become a more transparent organization.
Risker/Anne
On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 05:42, Magnus Manske via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
Erik,
thanks for your great work on stats, and welcome back to the volunteer
force.
Where the real work is done :-)
Magnus
On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 10:31 AM Sandra Rientjes - Wikimedia Nederland <
rientjes(a)wikimedia.nl> wrote:
Dear Erik,
Many thanks for all the help and support you gave Wikimedia Nederland and
myself over the past years. Whenever we had tricky stats-related
questions,
we knew we could turn to you.
I hope to see you at many WMNL-events in the future.
Enjoy the freedom!
Best,
Sandra
Sandra Rientjes
Directeur/Executive Director Wikimedia Nederland
tel. (+31) (0)30 3200238 <+31%2030%20320%200238> (ma, di, do)
mob. (+31) (0)6 31786379 <+31%206%2031786379> (wo, vrij)
www.wikimedia.nl
Mariaplaats 3
3511 LH Utrecht
Op do 7 feb. 2019 om 11:22 schreef rupert THURNER <
rupert.thurner(a)gmail.com
:
Many thanks erik and all the best!! One sentence
in eriks blog post
cited i
> found surprising. What type of modesty you guys were talking about?
>
> "At Wikimania London (2014) I talked about how we should err on the
side
of
modesty. That message never came across. I
started to have a discussion
on
> this within WMF but failed to bring this to fruition. My bad."
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2019, 22:18 Dario Taraborelli <
dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org
wrote:
“[R]ecent revisions of an article can be peeled
off to reveal older
layers,
which are still meaningful for historians. Even
graffiti applied by
vandals
can by its sheer informality convey meaningful
information, just like
historians learned a lot from graffiti on walls of classic Pompei.
Likewise
view patterns can tell future historians a lot
about what was hot and
what
wasn’t in our times. Reason why these raw view
data are meant to be
preserved for a long time.”
Erik Zachte wrote these lines in a blog post
<
https://web.archive.org/web/20171018194720/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/…
>
almost
ten years ago, and I cannot find better words to describe the gift he
gave
> us. Erik retired <http://infodisiac.com/back_to_volunteer_mode.htm>
this
> > past Friday, leaving behind an immense legacy. I had the honor to
work
with
> him for several years, and I hosted this morning an intimate, tearful
> celebration of what Erik has represented for the Wikimedia movement.
>
> His Wikistats project <https://stats.wikimedia.org/>—with his
signature
> pale yellow background we've known and
loved since the mid 2000s
> <
https://web.archive.org/web/20060412043240/https://stats.wikimedia.org/
> >—has
> been much more than an "analytics platform". It's been an individual
> attempt he initiated, and grew over time, to try and comprehend and
make
> sense of the largest open collaboration
project in human history,
driven
> by
> > curiosity and by an insatiable desire to serve data to the
communities
> that
> > most needed it.
> >
> > Through this project, Erik has created a live record of data
describing
> the
> > growth and reach of all Wikimedia communities, across languages and
> > projects, putting multi-lingualism and smaller communities at the
very
>
center of his attention. He coined metrics such as "active editors"
that
> > defined the benchmark for volunteers, the Wikimedia Foundation, and
the
academic community to understand some of the growing
pains and editor
retention issues
<
https://web.archive.org/web/20110608214507/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/…
> > >
> > the movement has faced. He created countless reports—that predate by
> nearly
> > a decade modern visualizations of online attention—to understand what
> > Wikipedia traffic means in the context of current events like
elections
https://web.archive.org/web/20160405055621/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2008/…
> > > >
> > > or public health crises
https://web.archive.org/web/20090708011216/http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/…
> > > >.
> > > He has created countless
> > > <https://twitter.com/Infodisiac/status/1039244151953543169>
> > visualizations
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/27/new-interactive-visualization-wikiped…
> > > >
> > > that show the enormous gaps in local language content and
> representation
> > > that, as a movement, we face in our efforts to build an encyclopedia
> for
> > > and about everyone. He has also made extensive use of pie charts
https://web.archive.org/web/20141222073751/http://infodisiac.com/blog/wp-co…
> > >,
> > which—as friends—we are ready to turn a blind eye towards.
> >
> > Most importantly, the data Erik has brougth to life has been cited
over
> > > 1,000 times
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=stats.wikim…
> > >
> > in the scholarly literature. If we gave credit to open data creators
in
> the
> > same way as we credit authors of scholarly papers, Erik would be one
of
> the
> > most influential authors in the field, and I don't think it is much
of
a
> > stretch to say that the massive trove of data and metrics Erik has
made
> > available had a direct causal role in
the birth and growth of the
> academic
> > field of Wikimedia research, and more broadly, scholarship of online
> > collaboration.
> >
> > Like I said this morning, Erik -- you have been not only an
invaluable
> > colleague and a steward for the
movement, but also a very decent
human
>
being, and I am grateful we shared some of this journey together.
>
> Please join me in celebrating Erik on his well-deserved retirement,
read
his
statement <http://infodisiac.com/back_to_volunteer_mode.htm> to
learn
> what he's planning to do next, or check this lovely portrait
> <https://www.wired.com/2013/12/erik-zachte-wikistats/> Wired
published
a
> > while back about "the Stats Master Making Sense of Wikipedia's
Massive
> Data
> > Trove".
> >
> > Dario
> >
> >
> > --
> > *Dario Taraborelli *Director, Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation
> >
research.wikimedia.org •
nitens.org • @readermeter
> > <http://twitter.com/readermeter>
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