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Wikimedia Foundation
Just a reminder this will be taking place in one hour!
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Sarah R <srodlund(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this February 15, 2017 at
> 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC.
>
> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6smzMppb-I
>
> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
> And, you can watch our past research showcases here
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#February_2017>
> .
>
> This month's presentations:
>
> Wikipedia and the Urban-Rural DivideBy *Isaac Johnson*Wikipedia articles
> about places, OpenStreetMap features, and other forms of peer-produced
> content have become critical sources of geographic knowledge for humans and
> intelligent technologies. We explore the effectiveness of the peer
> production model across the rural/urban divide, a divide that has been
> shown to be an important factor in many online social systems. We find that
> in Wikipedia (as well as OpenStreetMap), peer-produced content about rural
> areas is of systematically lower quality, less likely to have been produced
> by contributors who focus on the local area, and more likely to have been
> generated by automated software agents (i.e. “bots”). We continue to
> explore and codify the systemic challenges inherent to characterizing rural
> phenomena through peer production as well as discuss potential solutions.
>
>
> Wikipedia Navigation VectorsBy *Ellery Wulczyn
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ewulczyn_(WMF)>*In this project, we
> learned embeddings for Wikipedia articles and Wikidata
> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page> items by applying
> Word2vec <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word2vec> models to a corpus of
> reading sessions. Although Word2vec models were developed to learn word
> embeddings from a corpus of sentences, they can be applied to any kind of
> sequential data. The learned embeddings have the property that items with
> similar neighbors in the training corpus have similar representations (as
> measured by the cosine similarity
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosine_similarity>, for example).
> Consequently, applying Wor2vec to reading sessions results in article
> embeddings, where articles that tend to be read in close succession have
> similar representations. Since people usually generate sequences of
> semantically related articles while reading, these embeddings also capture
> semantic similarity between articles.
>
> --
> Sarah R. Rodlund
> Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation
> srodlund(a)wikimedia.org
>
--
Sarah R. Rodlund
Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation
srodlund(a)wikimedia.org
Hi Everyone,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this February 15, 2017 at
11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6smzMppb-I
As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And,
you can watch our past research showcases here
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#February_2017>.
This month's presentations:
Wikipedia and the Urban-Rural DivideBy *Isaac Johnson*Wikipedia articles
about places, OpenStreetMap features, and other forms of peer-produced
content have become critical sources of geographic knowledge for humans and
intelligent technologies. We explore the effectiveness of the peer
production model across the rural/urban divide, a divide that has been
shown to be an important factor in many online social systems. We find that
in Wikipedia (as well as OpenStreetMap), peer-produced content about rural
areas is of systematically lower quality, less likely to have been produced
by contributors who focus on the local area, and more likely to have been
generated by automated software agents (i.e. “bots”). We continue to
explore and codify the systemic challenges inherent to characterizing rural
phenomena through peer production as well as discuss potential solutions.
Wikipedia Navigation VectorsBy *Ellery Wulczyn
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ewulczyn_(WMF)>*In this project, we
learned embeddings for Wikipedia articles and Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page> items by applying
Word2vec <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word2vec> models to a corpus of
reading sessions. Although Word2vec models were developed to learn word
embeddings from a corpus of sentences, they can be applied to any kind of
sequential data. The learned embeddings have the property that items with
similar neighbors in the training corpus have similar representations (as
measured by the cosine similarity
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosine_similarity>, for example).
Consequently, applying Wor2vec to reading sessions results in article
embeddings, where articles that tend to be read in close succession have
similar representations. Since people usually generate sequences of
semantically related articles while reading, these embeddings also capture
semantic similarity between articles.
--
Sarah R. Rodlund
Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation
srodlund(a)wikimedia.org
Dear Fabian,
Let me relay your question to the WMF Analytics Team.
Best regards,
Erik Zachte
From: Fabian Stephany [mailto:fns27@cam.ac.uk]
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2017 20:48
To: erikzachte(a)infodisiac.com; erikzachte(a)wikimedia.org
Cc: Fabian Braesemann
Subject: Research on wikipedia traffic and educational quality
Dear Erik,
please allow me to contact you regarding your work for wikipedia
(https://stats.wikimedia.org/ <http://stats.grok.se/> ). My colleague and me
(Oxford Internet Institute/University of Cambridge/Wittgenstein Centre
Vienna) are about to start a research project on educational quality and
wikipedia traffic.
Hopefully, you find the time give us some advise on our questions regarding
wikipedia access and edit traffic. We want to look at the category and
geographical origin of wikipedia article access and editing.
A) ACCESS TRAFFIC
We are interested in wikipedia clicks per world-wide geographical unit
(sub-national, ideally) and per category
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Contents/Categories).
Is there a way to stream (maybe per API) the origin of wikipedia clicks in a
specific category? Instead it would already be great for us to find a
statistic that shows regional access statistics on wikipedia in general over
time.
B) EDITING TRAFFIC
As far as we have seen, it is possible to access the editing statistics
(often with IP addresses given) for the last 30 days
(https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?namespace=
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?namespace=&tagfilter=&days=30&title=Sp
ecial:RecentChanges> &tagfilter=&days=30&title=Special%3ARecentChanges). Is
there likewise a tool or API to steam the editing process of wikipedia (IP
and editor name, if registered)?
Thank you very much for your help or likewise for suggesting somebody, who
could help us out.
Best wishes,
Fabian Stephany, PhD MSc, MPhil Cantab
fns27(a)cam.ac.uk
fabian.stephany(a)wu.ac.at
fabianstephany.com
UK +44 776 3505 435
AT +43 680 5015 960
DE +49 176 3121 5012
Hello Erik,
Thank you very much Erik for these valuable details you provided. I will
review them thoroughly and see how they can meet my needs.
Cheers,
___
Samuel GUEBO,
GLAM-WIKI coordinator in Côte d'Ivoire
Le 9 févr. 2017 02:13, "Erik Zachte" <ezachte(a)wikimedia.org> a écrit :
(Cc'ing Analytics mailing list)
Hi Samuel,
I can only partially answer your questions, but maybe colleagues can add to
this.
*==Page views==*
Not exactly what you ask, but we do publish monthly update stats on
pageviews per country and per language
This report shows how many page views we received in Dec 2016 per country
(for any Wikipedia language)
https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountry
Overview.htm
There are further breakdowns,
One that shows which Wikipedia language received which percentage of views
from a given country, in other words which Wikipedia was most visited from
Ivory Coast (French 82.4%)
https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountry
Breakdown.htm
One that shows per Wikipedia the distribution per country, in other words
how many pageviews to say French Wikipedia came from Cote d'Ivoire (0.5%)
https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerLanguag
eBreakdown.htm
*==Edits, unique IP==*
We don't yet publish edit counts of unique IP addresses per country as far
as I know (because of privacy issues on small wikis).
Maybe a colleague knows whether we already maintain an overall count for
all African countries put together?
*==Topics==*
I'll think about topics coverage. We could mine the category system, but
anomalous cross links make that non trivial.
Cheers,
Erik
*From:* Samuel Guebo [mailto:samuelguebo@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Monday, February 06, 2017 1:09
*To:* erikzachte(a)infodisiac.com
*Cc:* Isla Haddow-Flood
*Subject:* Figures regarding African topics coverage
Hello Erik,
My name is Samuel Guebo and I am a board member of the Wikimedia User Group
of Côte d'Ivoire.
I am preparing a blog post and I need recent figures regarding coverage of
African topics on Wikipedia. For example, what is the estimated number of
articles related to Africa? How many individuals edit with an IP coming
from Africa? I already read the WikiProject Africa
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Africa> figures and
also the Information Imbalance: Africa on Wikipedia
<http://geography.oii.ox.ac.uk/?page=information-imbalance-africa-on-wikiped…>
study but need more acurate and up-to-date figures.
I Cc'ed Isla Haddow-Flood from Wikimedia South-Africa as she is both
actively contributing to the WikiProject Africa and interested in these
figures.
Cheers,
*_______________________________________________________*
*Samuel Guebo *
*GLAM-WIKI Coordinator in Côte d'Ivoire Creative Director at E-voir
<http://e-voir.net/> *
*Social entrepreneur / designer / apps
developerChroniqueur culture & technologie *
*(225) 77 34 17 21 <77%2034%2017%2021> / 40 27 28 37
<40%2027%2028%2037>Join me on : Facebook
<http://facebook.com./samuel.guebo> / Twitter
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(Cc'ing Analytics mailing list)
Hi Samuel,
I can only partially answer your questions, but maybe colleagues can add to this.
==Page views==
Not exactly what you ask, but we do publish monthly update stats on pageviews per country and per language
This report shows how many page views we received in Dec 2016 per country (for any Wikipedia language)
https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountry…
There are further breakdowns,
One that shows which Wikipedia language received which percentage of views from a given country, in other words which Wikipedia was most visited from Ivory Coast (French 82.4%)
https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountry…
One that shows per Wikipedia the distribution per country, in other words how many pageviews to say French Wikipedia came from Cote d'Ivoire (0.5%)
https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerLanguag…
==Edits, unique IP==
We don't yet publish edit counts of unique IP addresses per country as far as I know (because of privacy issues on small wikis).
Maybe a colleague knows whether we already maintain an overall count for all African countries put together?
==Topics==
I'll think about topics coverage. We could mine the category system, but anomalous cross links make that non trivial.
Cheers,
Erik
From: Samuel Guebo [mailto:samuelguebo@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2017 1:09
To: erikzachte(a)infodisiac.com
Cc: Isla Haddow-Flood
Subject: Figures regarding African topics coverage
Hello Erik,
My name is Samuel Guebo and I am a board member of the Wikimedia User Group of Côte d'Ivoire.
I am preparing a blog post and I need recent figures regarding coverage of African topics on Wikipedia. For example, what is the estimated number of articles related to Africa? How many individuals edit with an IP coming from Africa? I already read the WikiProject Africa <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Africa> figures and also the Information Imbalance: Africa on Wikipedia <http://geography.oii.ox.ac.uk/?page=information-imbalance-africa-on-wikiped…> study but need more acurate and up-to-date figures.
I Cc'ed Isla Haddow-Flood from Wikimedia South-Africa as she is both actively contributing to the WikiProject Africa and interested in these figures.
Cheers,
_______________________________________________________
Samuel Guebo
GLAM-WIKI Coordinator in Côte d'Ivoire
Creative Director at <http://e-voir.net/> E-voir
Social entrepreneur / designer / apps developer
Chroniqueur culture & technologie
(225) 77 34 17 21 / 40 27 28 37
Join me on : <http://facebook.com./samuel.guebo> Facebook / <http://twitter.com/samuelguebo> Twitter / <http://samuelguebo.com/> My website