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Leila Zia

21 Apr 2017 21 Apr '17

4:45 p.m.

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_Be… (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

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Gerard Meijssen

21 Apr 21 Apr

4:58 p.m.

Hoi, Is this paper behind a paywall ? Thanks, GerardM On 21 April 2017 at 18:45, Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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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(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

Gerard Meijssen

4:59 p.m.

Hoi, The DOI is.. Thanks, GerardM On 21 April 2017 at 18:58, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Hoi, Is this paper behind a paywall ? Thanks, GerardM On 21 April 2017 at 18:45, Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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_Wiki pedia_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/wik i/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik i/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

Amir E. Aharoni

5:03 p.m.

If I want this done for Hebrew and Russian, do I just reply to this thread? Or did I miss the instructions in the first email? :) בתאריך 21 באפר׳ 2017 19:46,‏ "Leila Zia" <leila(a)wikimedia.org> כתב:

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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(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

attolippip

5:25 p.m.

and Ukrainian :) and per Amir about instructions Best regards, antanana 2017-04-21 20:03 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il>il>:

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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(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Alice Wiegand

5:50 p.m.

German, also. Alice. Von meinem iPhone gesendet

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Am 21.04.2017 um 19:25 schrieb attolippip <attolippip(a)gmail.com>om>: and Ukrainian :) and per Amir about instructions Best regards, antanana 2017-04-21 20:03 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il>il>:

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(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Yaroslav Blanter

6:17 p.m.

Hi Gerard, arxiv.org is a free resource. It is actually one of the earliest free depositories, and in many fields, including mine (physics) it is customary to upload preprints at arxiv.org prior to sending for review. It can not be behind the paywall. Cheers Yaroslav On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 7:50 PM, Alice Wiegand <me.lyzzy(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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German, also. Alice. Von meinem iPhone gesendet

thread?

Or did I miss the instructions in the first email? :) בתאריך 21 באפר׳ 2017 19:46,‏ "Leila Zia" <leila(a)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(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Leila Zia

6:16 p.m.

yeah, sorry, antanana and Amir: a better communication channel re sign-ups would be better. Emailing on this thread or off-list to me works. I'm keeping track of languages requested and I'll contact the person who requests them to figure out the next steps no later than Tuesday. L On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 10:25 AM, attolippip <attolippip(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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and Ukrainian :) and per Amir about instructions Best regards, antanana 2017-04-21 20:03 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il>il>:

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(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Leila Zia

21 Jun 21 Jun

6:57 a.m.

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:

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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_Be… Best, Leila

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בתאריך 21 באפר׳ 2017 19:46,‏ "Leila Zia" <leila(a)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(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Amir E. Aharoni

7:28 a.m.

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On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)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(a)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(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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4:45 p.m.

...

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:

If I want this done for Hebrew and Russian, do I just reply to this

בתאריך 21 באפר׳ 2017 19:46,‏ "Leila Zia" <leila(a)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(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Frans Grijzenhout

17 Mar 17 Mar

12:59 p.m.

Hi Leila, thank you for sharing the results of this important survey. Must have been a tremendous job and we are very happy to have this information about our readers now available. We will certainly discuss this with the Dutch WP community. During this discussion we will of course also focus on the difference between WP-NL and some other languages (another valuable aspect of this research). Thanks again, Frans *Frans Grijzenhout*, voorzitter / chair +31 6 5333 9499 -- *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(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:

...

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(a)wikimedia.org>rg>: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Amir E. Aharoni > <amir.aharoni(a)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(a)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

> > > 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

> > > 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:

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Leila Zia

18 Mar 18 Mar

6:36 p.m.

Hi Frans, On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 5:59 AM, Frans Grijzenhout <frans(a)wikimedia.nl> wrote:

...

Sure. If you need our help somewhere, please let me know. We're trying to document everything, including how the results can be read by each community, but I feel I'm always behind on documentation. :/ If you all run into questions, just post them in the meta page. I'd also be happy to make myself available for a call if that helps. We will keep you posted (through your point of contact) if we learn more about Dutch Wikipedia readers as we go deeper in analysis. Best, Leila

...

Thanks again, Frans *Frans Grijzenhout*, voorzitter / chair +31 6 5333 9499 -- *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(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:

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(a)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(a)wikimedia.org>rg>: > >> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Amir E. Aharoni >> <amir.aharoni(a)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(a)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

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

>> > > 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.

> > > 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

> > > 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

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Leila Zia

11 Sep 11 Sep

12:43 a.m.

Hi all, Update time. Thank you all for your patience and support as we went through the different stages of the analysis for this study. We have now concluded the study based on the survey of the 14 Wikipedia languages [1]. Here is what will happen next: * We are doing some relatively major documentation at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Be… . The goal is to have that page and the sub-pages in a way that can be consumed more easily by audiences beyond researchers. I expect the pages to come to life almost completely on or before 2018-09-14. We will need the first couple of weeks of October for data and code documentation to make sure you have all the data you need for your languages to dig deeper if you choose to. By the end of October, please expect all documentation to be completed. * We are happy to try to give presentations about this research to your language community if there is interest on your end and we can make it work on our end. The priority will be given to languages that already participated in the study. If you want to sign up for one, please go to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Be… * Our November Research Showcase [2] will most likely be on this topic, so if you want to have a general overview of the results, keep an eye on that. * We have submitted a research paper to a peer-reviewed conference based on this work. There is an anonymization process for the reviews and in order to not break that we will wait until the results are out (towards the end of October) and only then put the full paper on arxiv, under CC BY-SA 4.0 or a more permissive license. * We are discussing with our collaborators to potentially set up a challenge for researchers to work with a subset of the data (anonymized/aggregated/...) to answer an interesting research questions. If you want to brainstorm with us about this, please drop a line at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Read… * Do you have an idea about how to more effectively disseminate this knowledge? please call it out. There is quite a bit of knowledge to share and we're honestly not 100% sure what the best way to do it is across a global movement. As a result, we're offering a mix of documentation, pinging points of contacts in each language so they're aware of them, general presentations, language specific presentations, as well as data documentation for you to be able to dig on your own deeper. Best, Leila, on behalf of the researchers (Florian Lemmerich, Diego Saez, Bob West, and myself) [1] ar, bn, de, en, es, he, hi, hu, ja, nl, ro, ru, uk, zh [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase

Leila Zia

6 Feb 6 Feb

10:34 p.m.

Hi all, Update time. Given that this is a long email: there is an action item in the 5th bullet point below for the language communities who want to participate in the next iteration of the study. If you are interested to have your language included in the study, we need a response by 2019-02-15. See below for more. * The paper on Why the World Reads Wikipedia is accepted in WSDM '19 [1]. If you are planning to attend the conference, stop by to hear Florian Lemmerich presenting the work. You can read the paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.00474 . If you have time to only read one subsection of the paper, we would recommend section 4.4. Summary of Results. From there, you can start reading the other parts of the paper depending on your interest about introduction, methodology and data, etc. If you prefer to watch a presentation about the paper, you can check out the December 2018 Research showcase [2]. * Remember that our offer to provide presentations and discuss the result with your language community, if your language is part of the 14 languages in the study [3], is still on the table. :) If you want to talk with us about this topic, sign up at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Read… . No pressure from us: only if having a conversation about readers help your language community in what you do. * We have put extensive effort to document the code [4] and data [5] for this research such that each language community can dive in their data as they see fit. * What's next? The previous results made one point clear to us: geography and language matter and depending on from where in the world the reader is accessing a specific Wikipedia language, they may have different needs and motivations [6]. We hypothesize that age, gender, education, native language, as well as geographic region the reader is from can help us understand and characterize the needs and motivations of Wikipedia readers better. As some of you may already be guessing: there are some big questions ahead of us. For example, are there disparities in access to content depending on the readers' age or gender? Does the trajectory of readers differ depending on their demographics? We'd like to start addressing questions along these lines and better understand the needs and motivations of sub-populations within a country or language community. To do the above, we will rerun the study and this time we will include some demographics questions as part of the study. * How can your language community participate in the upcoming study of reader demographics? As always, research on this front is not possible without a very close collaboration between the language communities who will participate in this study and the researchers. If you want your language to be included in this round of the study, please sign up at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Read… on or before 2019-02-15 . Please note that the priority will be given to the 14 languages that participated in the previous round and that we will do our best to include new languages. Also note that we may not be able to run the study in all the languages that sign up: the traffic to the language edition, the diversity that the inclusion of the language can bring to the language pool, our capacity to run the analysis in the language, the availability of the point of contact from the language for translations will all play a role in the final list of languages that we can include in the study. This being said, please don't shy away from listing your language there if you're interested. :) Best, Leila, on behalf of the researchers (Isaac Johnson, Florian Lemmerich, Diego Saez, Markus Strohmaier, Bob West, and myself) [1] http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2019/ [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#December_2018 [3] ar, bn, de, en, es, he, hi, hu, ja, nl, ro, ru, uk, zh [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Be… [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Be… [6] The needs and motivations themselves don't change, but the distribution over possible options can change, as well as the reader characteristics that can describe them. [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Be… On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 5:43 PM Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

...

Amir E. Aharoni

22 Apr 22 Apr

1:06 p.m.

2017-04-21 19:45 GMT+03:00 Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:

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==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.:)

Is there anything that interested volunteers can start translating now? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

Leila Zia

5:37 p.m.

On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 6:06 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:

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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_Read… (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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-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ _______________________________________________ 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(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

Leila Zia

25 Apr 25 Apr

5:11 p.m.

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(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 6:06 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)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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