Hi all,
[This is likely my last update here until after the study is done and we have results to share.]
Thank you for all the responses on and off-list and the work some of you have already started doing. :) We have requests by 10 more languages https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour/Robustness_across_languages#What_other_languages_to_run_the_surveys_in.3F. At this point, we're going to focus on these requests to get as many of them as possible ready. The work involves the translation of the content by those who have volunteered, one-on-one meetings with those who translated the content to make sure the intents of the research is preserved in the translated content, computing sampling rates for each language, testing the surveys and the infrastructure to make sure data collection happens as planned, reviewing the research questions (now that we have many more languages, we may have an opportunity to ask and answer a couple of more questions), and likely more. :)
We are aiming to launch this study early next week. Notices to the corresponding Village pumps will go out no later than 2 days prior to the launch.
Thanks to all the volunteers who stepped up to make it happen in their languages, our collaborators in EPFL, GESIS, and Stanford, and the Reading team. :)
Best, Leila
-- Leila Zia Senior Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation
On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 10:37 AM, Leila Zia leila@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 6:06 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Is there anything that interested volunteers can start translating now?
:)
For some languages, I can confirm in the next 12 hours if we can run the surveys in, in which case I'll ping the point of contact (which is at the moment, the person who has requested that language) in the following page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Characterizing_Wikipedia_ Reader_Behaviour/Robustness_across_languages
(The table is not complete, I'm working on it now.)
For some other languages, I may have to wait until Monday late evening UTC before I can say anything since I may need to brainstorm more with the other researchers in the team. (I want to make sure we don't ask for help with translation unless we are pretty sure the language is feasible for this kind of study).
Leila
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