I apologize for forgetting to include Wikitech-l in my original post.
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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What's making me happy this week:
1. A recent entry in the Mozilla Blog discussed the possible value of anonymity in decreasing bias in code review processes: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/03/08/gender-bias-code-reviews/
2. The opt-in "pingback" telemetry from MediaWiki installations, which is available since March 2017, suggests that there are more than 40,000 unique installations. See: https://pingback.wmflabs.org, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgPingback and https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Pingback_Privacy_Statement.
There is also some news which is a little older and I am now getting around to sharing here:
3. A research project has been started which aims to test whether vandal activity can be detected in (near) real time, which may open opportunities for interventions earlier in the process of publishing edits. See https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/ai/2018-January/000221.html.
What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any language.
On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 9:21 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
- The opt-in "pingback" telemetry from MediaWiki installations, which is
available since March 2017, suggests that there are more than 40,000 unique installations.
Note that pingback only collects data from wikis which were set up with 1.28 or a later version of the installer (and opted in) or where the system administrator manually enabld it; and that it cannot differentiate between "real" wikis and throwaway installations (e.g. on developer machines). So the real number can easily be a lot more or a lot less than that. (WikiApiary tracks about 20,000 MediaWiki wikis, so that's a reasonable lower estimate.)
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