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to people who subscribe to Wikipedia mailing lists.
Pine
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From: Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 4:15 PM
Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Why the world reads Wikipedia: beyond English
To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <
wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
As some of you know, we started a line of research back in 2016 to
understand Wikipedia readers better. We published the first taxonomy
of Wikipedia readers and we studied and characterized the reader types
in English Wikipedia [1]. During the past 1+ year, we focused on
learning about the potential differences of Wikipedia readers across
languages based on the taxonomy built in [1]. We've learned a lot, and
today we're sharing what we learnt with you.
Some pointers:
* Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.00474
* Data:
https://figshare.com/articles/Why_the_World_Reads_Wikipedia/7579937/1
* (under continuous improvement) Research page on meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Be…
* Research showcase presentation:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#December_2018
* A series of presentations to WMF teams and community: Look for tasks
under https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201699 with title "Present
the results of WtWRW" for link to slides and more info when available.
* We will send out a blog post about it hopefully soon. A blog post
about the intermediate results is at
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/03/15/why-the-world-reads-wikipedia/
In a nutshell:
* We ran the taxonomy of Wikipedia readers in 14 languages and
measured the prevalence of Wikipedia use-cases and characterized
Wikipedia readers in these languages.
* While we observe similarities in terms of the prevalence of the use
cases as well as the way we can characterize readers, we can see that
Wikipedia languages lend themselves to different distributions of
readership and characteristics. In many cases, the one-size-fit-all
solutions may simply not work for readers.
* Intrinsic learning remains as the number one motivation for people
to come to Wikipedia in the majority of the languages, followed by
media.
* In-depth reading and the reading of scientific oriented topics is
highly and negatively correlated with the socio-economic status and
Human Development Index of countries the readers in these languages
are coming from. Long articles that may seem just too long for the
bulk of our audience in US, Japan, and the Netherlands is in high
demand in India, Bolivia, Argentina, Panamá, México, …
* ...
This research was not possible without the extensive contributions by
our formal collaborators: Florian Lemmerich (RWTH Aachen University)
and Bob West (EPFL). On the WMF end, I was fortunate to work with
Diego Saez on this project as well as more recently, Isaac Johnson.
And all those in the Reading Web and Legal team who supported us
throughout the process. I also want to underline the amazing work that
the volunteers in the languages in the study did to support us heavily
to learn more about their languages, not only through help with
communications within their communities but also with the translation
task which was not an easy one as they were asked to offer their time
not only to translate but also do in-person meetings with us for us to
make sure the intent of the question is translated the same way across
the languages. Usernames Strainu, Tgr, Amire80, Awossink, Antanana,
Lyzzy, Shangkuanlc, Whym, Kaganer, عباد_ديرانية, Satdeep_Gill, Racso,
Hasive: Thank you!
Next we are going to extend this study to include demographics
information. More information about it coming out in the next few
weeks. (And I will send out a separate email to wikimedia-l about this
topic and future research over the weekend. I need some time to
finalize the message to make the message most useful for that
audience.:)
Best,
Leila
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05379
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Leila Zia
Senior Research Scientist, Lead
Wikimedia Foundation
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Forwarding good news to the Wikipedia-l and WikiEN-l lists. I am guessing
that this tool may be of interest to Wikipedians who contribute in diverse
languages.
Thanks for your work, Johanna and the WMDE Technical Wishes Team.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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From: Johanna Strodt via Commons-l <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 4:04 AM
Subject: [Commons-l] Coming soon to all wikis: beta feature FileExporter
To: <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
// sorry for cross-posting
The FileExporter will soon be released as a beta feature to all wikis. The
planned deployment date is January 16.
Some background: Files from local wikis should be transferred to Wikimedia
Commons if their license allows it. This way, they can be used by all
wikis. But if you wanted to import a local file to Commons in the past, you
couldn’t properly transfer its file and page history. It was a wish from a
survey of the German-speaking communities to find a solution to this
problem.
Now, the FileExporter makes it possible to import a file from a local wiki
to Wikimedia Commons, while keeping its history intact. A first version has
already been a beta feature on a few first wikis since June 2018. [1] Since
then, bugs were fixed and features were added.
If you’re interested in importing local files, please give the feature a
try. Even though it’s a beta feature, you can use it for real file
imports. Please
note that in order to get started, you need to
1.
activate the beta feature “FileExporter” on your wiki [2], and
2.
make sure your wiki has a proper configuration file. Configuration files
are maintained by each wiki's community. They define, among other
things, whether a file can be exported. Exports from wikis without a
configuration file are blocked. Find more more information in the
documentation. [3]
We’re looking forward to your feedback on the central feedback page! [4] A
big thanks to everyone who gave feedback so far.
If you wish to learn more about the project, have a look at the page of the
wish. [5]
For the Technical Wishes team,
Johanna
[1] deployment plan:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Move_files_to_Commons…
[2] go to Preferences > Beta features, e.g.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeat…
[3] documentation on configuration files:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Move_files_to_Commons…
[4] central feedback page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Extension:FileImporter
[5] project page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Move_files_to_Commons
Johanna Strodt Project Manager Community Communications Technical Wishlist,
Wikimedia Deutschland
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Hi Janna,
I am forwarding this announcement to the Wikipenia and ENWP mailing lists.
The presentation looks interesting to me.
Do you know which Wikipedia language edition(s) the author studied for this
research?
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 10:49 AM Janna Layton <> wrote:
> Hello, everyone,
>
> The next Research Showcase, *Understanding participation in Wikipedia*,
> will be live-streamed next Wednesday, January 16, at 11:30 AM PST/19:30
> UTC. This presentation is about new editors.
>
> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc51jE_KNTc
>
> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You
> can also watch our past research showcases here:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
>
> This month's presentation:
>
> *Understanding participation in Wikipedia: Studies on the relationship
> between new editors’ motivations and activity*
>
> By Martina Balestra, New York University
>
> Peer production communities like Wikipedia often struggle to retain
> contributors beyond their initial engagement. Theory suggests this may be
> related to their levels of motivation, though prior studies either center
> on contributors’ activity or use cross-sectional survey methods, and
> overlook accompanied changes in motivation. In this talk, I will present a
> series of studies aimed at filling this gap. We begin by looking at how
> Wikipedia editors’ early motivations influence the activities that they
> come to engage in, and how these motivations change over the first three
> months of participation in Wikipedia. We then look at the relationship
> between editing activity and intrinsic motivation specifically over time.
> We find that new editors’ early motivations are predictive of their future
> activity, but that these motivations tend to change with time. Moreover,
> newcomers’ intrinsic motivation is reinforced by the amount of activity
> they engage in over time: editors who had a high level of intrinsic
> motivation entered a virtuous cycle where the more they edited the more
> motivated they became, whereas those who initially had low intrinsic
> motivation entered a vicious cycle. Our findings shed new light on the
> importance of early experiences and reveal that the relationship between
> motivation and activity is more complex than previously understood.
>
> --
> Janna Layton
> Administrative Assistant - Audiences & Technology
> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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