http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.research hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.research/2951 <pre>If you have done automatic research on a number of Wikipedia language editions, I am sure that you sorely missed this list: a list of all Wikipedia language editions, their respective language codes, and the language they are written in. The list is generated nightly out of Wikidata data. Due to the slowness of the dump creation and its analysis, the list is usually two days old, so if you make a change there on Monday it won't be there until Wednesday. Here's the URL. I would appreciate if the list got checked and corrected (it's a wiki). &lt;https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/172199972/wikipedias.txt&gt; Format: line starts with # -&gt; comment all other lines have up to three space separated entries: 1. Wikidata ID of the Wikipedia 2. Wikimedia language code, i.e. the value of property P425 3. the language of the given Wikipedia, i.e. the value of property P407 The selected entries are all that have an instance of (P31) property with value Wikipedia (Q52). The languages in turn could be more described, e.g.</pre> Denny Vrandečić 2013-05-21T11:08:47 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.research/2950 <pre>*************************************************************************** We apologize for cross posting *************************************************************************** [DICTAP 2013] The Third International Conference on Digital Information and Communication Technology and its Applications Important Dates Paper due: May 30, 2013 Camera-ready due and Registration: June 28, 2013 Conference Date:July 8-10, 2013 **************************************************************************** For more information: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/dictap2013/ **************************************************************************** This conference, among other things, wants to bring together researchers to present and discuss novel approaches and solutions as well as recent results in this area of research, e.g. specially designed for Cloud and Grid Computing, Wireless Mesh Networks, Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks, Wireless and Mobile Sensor Networks, Private Home Networks as well as Cyber Physical Syste</pre> The Third International Conference on Digital Information andCommunication Technology and its Applications 2013-05-19T20:51:29 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.research/2949 <pre>cross-posting from wikidata-l Begin forwarded message: _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l </pre> Dario Taraborelli 2013-05-15T18:00:19 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.research/2948 <pre>CFP: iConference 2014 | Breaking Down Walls: Culture-Context-Computing Call for Participation: iConference 2014 Berlin, Germany 4-7 March, 2014 http://iconference.ischools.org/iConference14/2014index/ The ninth annual iConference will take place 4-7 March, 2014, in Berlin, Germany. The four days will include peer-reviewed Papers, Notes, Posters, Workshops and Sessions for Interaction and Engagement. Also included are a Doctoral Student Colloquium and an Early Career Colloquium. Keynote addresses will be given by Tony Hey of Microsoft Research and Melissa Terras of the Department of Information Studies, University College London. Presented by the iSchools organization (www.ischools.org), the iConference is an annual gathering of information scholars and researchers from around the world who share a common concern about critical information issues in contemporary society. All are invited to participate; affiliation with the iSchools is not a</pre> Kevin G Crowston 2013-05-15T12:00:03 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.research/2947 <pre>Hi All, If you haven't already seen these, I thought that they may be of real interest to the community: http://abs.sagepub.com/content/current -This is a special issue in "American Behavioral Scientist" on "Open Collaboration and Wiki Research" http://crowdresearch.org/blog/?p=6495#comment-20485 -This is the latest post from the "Follow the Crowd" blog, and in general this blog is s great resource for emerging "crowd" research. Enjoy! Best, John ----- Original Message ----- From: wiki-research-l-request&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org To: wiki-research-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, 13 May, 2013 05:00:33 Subject: Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 93, Issue 11 Send Wiki-research-l mailing list submissions to wiki-research-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wiki-research-l-request&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list</pre> John Prpic 2013-05-13T22:29:26 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.research/2946 <pre> There's quite a lot of work studying the effects of licensing in free/libre open source software. You can find a number of papers on http://flosshub.org/biblio (search for license) and some of the work is summarized in review articles on FLOSS (e.g., [1]). The findings are mixed: some studies found that more restrictive licenses (i.e., GPL) led to more project popularity but others that less restrictive licenses (e.g., BSD) led to higher developer productivity. Some of the effects may be spurious, e.g., it could be that some project characteristics affect both productivity and choice of license. [1] Crowston, K., Wei K., Howison J., &amp; Wiggins A. (2012). Free/Libre Open Source Software Development: What we know and what we do not know. ACM Computing Surveys. 44. DOI10.1145/2089125.2089127 Kevin Crowston Syracuse University Phone: +1 (315) 443-1676 School of Information StudiesFax: +1 (815) 550-2155 348 Hinds HallWeb: http://crowston.syr.edu/ Syracuse, NY </pre> Kevin G Crowston 2013-05-13T12:15:02 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.research/2945 <pre>The deadline is May 17th! Giovanni ***** Apologies for multiple copies ***** You are cordially invited to submit a contribution to "Collective Behaviors and Networks", a one-day satellite event of the 2013 European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS'13), to be held in Barcelona, September 19, 2013. Goal of this workshop is to provide a discussion venue about advances in the study of networks applied to the dynamics of social collective behaviors. Particular attention will be devoted, but not limited to, the following topics: - Group formation, evolution and group behavior analysis. - Modeling, tracking and forecasting dynamic groups in social media. - Community detection and dynamic community structure analysis. - Social simulation, cultural, opinion, and normative dynamics. - Empirical calibration and validation of agent-based social models. - Models of social capital, collective action, social movements. - Coevolution of network and behavior. Mo</pre> Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia 2013-05-12T17:09:05 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.research/2944 <pre>Dear Pierre-Carl I've seen you reference my paper on AssessMediaWiki. Perhaps this other reference could be of your interest: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/225107564_Assessment_of_collaborative_learning_experiences_by_graphical_analysis_of_wiki_contributions It basically introduces a previous quantitative approach that is fully-operative. AssessMediaWiki tries to complement it. Best regards, 2013/4/27 Pierre-Carl Langlais &lt;langlais.qobuz&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; </pre> Manuel Palomo Duarte 2013-05-12T16:02:58 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.research/2943 <pre>Hi, does any one here know? Please, see the e-mail bellow. The thread has some answers [1], but maybe someone here know other things. [1] Follow here http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/2013-April/009263.html http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/2013-May/009271.html Tom ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jonathan Gray &lt;jonathan.gray&lt; at &gt;okfn.org&gt; Date: 2013/4/29 Subject: [okfn-discuss] The role of open licensing in large collaborative projects? To: okfn-discuss &lt;okfn-discuss&lt; at &gt;lists.okfn.org&gt;, "od-discuss&lt; at &gt;lists.okfn.org" &lt;od-discuss&lt; at &gt;lists.okfn.org&gt; Out of interest does anyone know of any research or case studies looking at the role of open licensing in collaborative projects and how open licensing enables/facilities collaboration? E.g. in open content projects like Wikipedia, open data projects like Open Street Map, or in open access research projects like the Human Genome Project? Or - even more generally - in free/open source software projects? -- Jonathan Gray | &lt; at &gt;jwyg Direct</pre> Everton Zanella Alvarenga 2013-05-11T18:57:31 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.research/2942 <pre>Erik Zachte probably has figures on this somewhere. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryEN.htm gives a monthly count for March 2013 of 4,775,756 but that is only for article edits. Historic and particularly pre Dec 2004 figures need to come with a health warning that some of the early stuff was lost. Though possibly some or all of that may have been found and reloaded. Post 2009 you have the problem that things are understated by an unknown margin as an increasing proportion of vandalism edits are deterred by the edit filter. And when we lose the vandalism we also lose the edits that used to be needed to revert it. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaEN.htm#3 could be a useful chart for you. It shows the all time peak in early 2007 and that March 2013 was as someone said an unusual spike. However it is also article space only, if you hear other figures circa 200,000 a day or above then they are almost certainly including other namespaces such as policy and userspace edits. Jonathan On 7 May 2</pre> WereSpielChequers 2013-05-07T21:59:34 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.research/2941 <pre>http://blog.okfn.org/2013/05/07/okcon-2013-call-for-proposals-out-now/ OKCon is the annual conference for Open Knowledge (Foundation), 17th-18th September 2013, Geneva, Switzerland. It was called "OKFest" last year. It's a well-attended and well-organized conference for anyone interested in open knowledge, sharing, open hacking, etc. Opportunities for Wikimedia lighting talks, workshops, etc.: - Wikipedia Zero (see Open Development &amp; Sustainability track) - Analytics and open data (see Technology, Tools &amp; Business) (UserMetrics API? privacy? Limn?) - SOPA/PIPA and related activities (see Evidence &amp; Stories) - Hack events: use their hackspace. Teach folks to make bots, gadgets, apps, and Lua templates. Get user testing from other open culture advocates and learn what tools they need. This conference is eligible for subsidy of travel costs -- see Participation Support https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Support to put in your request. Thanks to Sarah Stierch for</pre> Sumana Harihareswara 2013-05-07T20:15:49 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.research/2940 <pre>The Wikimedia Foundation is looking to hire a full-time Research Analyst to join our product research and analytics team: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oTqrXfwr&amp;s=wiki-research-l This opening is focused on research on editor engagement features and experiments developed by the Foundation's product team. Get in touch off-list if you have any questions on this opening (you can also contact Heather and Ion from our recruitment team, cc'ed). Dario _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l </pre> Dario Taraborelli 2013-05-07T19:59:49 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.research/2939 <pre>Thanks -- that's exactly what I was looking for, Dario! :) -Jodi On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Dario Taraborelli &lt; dtaraborelli&lt; at &gt;wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l </pre> Jodi Schneider 2013-05-07T18:09:54 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.research/2938 <pre>It's about half a million per day across all languages. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaZZ.htm (The peak in March is probably bot removal of interwikis migrated to Wikidata.) Nemo _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l </pre> Federico Leva (Nemo 2013-05-07T17:43:37 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.research/2937 <pre>Hi Jodi see attached, the median of daily enwiki edits (all namespaces, including bots and anonymous edits) in 2013 to date is 127K. (data from the RecentChanges feed) HTH Dario On May 7, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Jodi Schneider &lt;jschneider&lt; at &gt;pobox.com&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l </pre> Dario Taraborelli 2013-05-07T17:39:16 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.research/2936 <pre>Hi Jodi, This page gives you the number of days in which each 10M edits were made. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Katalaveno/TBE This page is particularly helpful in looking at the variation of edit number by time. *--* *Haitham Shammaa* *Contribution Research Manager* *Wikimedia Foundation* *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Click the "edit" button now, and help us make it a reality!* On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Jodi Schneider &lt;jschneider&lt; at &gt;pobox.com&gt;wrote: _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l </pre> Haitham Shammaa 2013-05-07T17:36:42 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.research/2935 <pre>What's the average number of edits per day on English Wikipedia? This is to frame my dissertation research -- I haven't found "edits per day" in the stats I've looked at [1][2]. -Jodi [1] http://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wikimediacounter/ [2] http://s23.org/wikistats/wikipedias_html.php PS: There are other measures of work and importance I've collected. From the (highly recommended!) "edit sessions" paper, I get ~14,000 hours per day [3]. Alexa &amp; Pew provide good popularity measures [4,5], and there is of course article count (4.2 million!). [3] R. Stuart Geiger and Aaron Halfaker. 2013. Using edit sessions to measure participation in Wikipedia. DOI=10.1145/2441776.2441873 http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/Using_Edit_Sessions_to_Measure_Participation_in_Wikipedia/geiger13using-preprint.pdf Using the ballpark 425,000 hours/month (for 2012, English Wikipedia). Wow! [4] Alexa: wikipedia.org is the world's 6th most popular website, 58.11% of traffic to English Wikipedia. http://www.alexa.c</pre> Jodi Schneider 2013-05-07T17:22:04 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.research/2934 <pre>*************************************************************************** We apologize for cross posting *************************************************************************** [DICTAP 2013] The Third International Conference on Digital Information and Communication Technology and its Applications Important Dates Paper due: May 30, 2013 Camera-ready due and Registration: June 28, 2013 Conference Date:July 8-10, 2013 **************************************************************************** For more information: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/dictap2013/ **************************************************************************** This conference, among other things, wants to bring together researchers to present and discuss novel approaches and solutions as well as recent results in this area of research, e.g. specially designed for Cloud and Grid Computing, Wireless Mesh Networks, Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks, Wireless and Mobile Sensor Networks, Private Home Networks as well as Cyber Physical Syste</pre> The Third International Conference on Digital Information andCommunication Technology and its Applications 2013-05-07T15:57:21 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.research/2933 <pre>Hi all, reminder that the papers deadline for CSCW 2014 is a few weeks away... (and yay about 'mania in London, btw, hope to finally see many of you next year! :) [Please forward to those who might be interested -- Apologies for cross-posting] CALL FOR PAPERS, COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK AND SOCIAL COMPUTING 2014 (CSCW 2014) Baltimore, MD, Feb 15-19, 2014http://cscw.acm.org CSCW is an international and interdisciplinary conference focused on how technology intersects with social practices. To support diverse and high-quality contributions, CSCW employs a two-phase review process and does not impose an arbitrary length limit on submissions. IMPORTANT DATES * May 31, 5:00pm PDT, 2013: Submission due * July 6: First-round notification (Revise &amp; Resubmit or Reject) * July 26, 5:00pm PDT: Revised papers due * August 23: Final notifications We invite submissions that detail existing practices or inform the design or deployment of systems or introduce novel systems, interaction techniques, or algorit</pre> Andrea Forte 2013-05-07T12:30:25 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.research/2932 <pre> This is somewhat ambiguous; "2 or more blocked-related actions" could mean either multiple blocks or a single unblock. Not necessarily; if there was little tolerance, some of those blocks would be indefinite, and presumably the users would not need multiple blocks :). I don't recall AGF ever requiring that, but frankly (as an aside) I find such a policy highly disturbing. Still, projects can do what they want. Not really. It suggests that more people are being blocked for spam. This could mean that spam is a rising problem, or it could mean that the regexes I used are inaccurate, or it could mean that spam levels have remained constant but our tolerance has reduced, or it could mean that there are odd inconsistencies in activity that are masked by a year-by-year analysis (I'm breaking it down month-by-month to track these). I'd also note that our studies are not really comparable; mine was exclusively on indefinite blocks that have not been reversed. I'm concerned that you're undertaking an analysis</pre> Oliver Keyes 2013-05-05T16:11:45 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.research/2931 <pre> The following is an analysis of the entire block log on English Wikinews. It is currently at https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:LauraHale/Blocks_on_English_Wikinews *Ironholds wrote a summary of problems on English Wikipedia viewed through block logs &lt;http://blog.ironholds.org/?p=31&gt; in late April. This is nominally based on that research to the extent that it is inspired by it in terms of understanding blocking on English Wikinews.* As referenced on the WMF research list, the issue of blocking is potentially a very big deal for smaller projects. Problems can easily overwhelm a small community if there is not an active community patrolling recent changes in addition to the content work they are engaging in. For English Wikinews, there were 22 active reporters in January 2013&lt;http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/TablesWikipediansEditsGt5.htm&gt;. (This is tiny when SUL is a larger contributor to English Wikinews having 720,753 total registered users of which 0.00069% were active in January.) At the same tim</pre> Laura Hale 2013-05-05T06:39:23 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.research